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Capitalism is the main organizer and profiteer from women’s oppression. It feeds, maintains and perpetuates the old oppressive social relations as it enforces discrimination, sexism and wage inequality. Capitalism uses working women as a reserve army for part-time, temporary or low paid jobs. The aim of the class of owners of the means of production is profit, regardless of the havoc it causes and without regard to women’s needs, nor those of the entire population. |
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2012
In response to a recognized need to combat patriarchy within its own ranks, the campus more generally and society at large, the University of Ottawa Marxist Students’ Association has launched a new campaign called Women Hold Up Half the Sky, named after a campaign of the same name launched in China during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. |
In the lead up to International Women’s Day, the next Revolutionary Student Movement (RSM) Communist Night School* will discuss issues of gender and class. Specifically, what does feminism mean to proletarian and working-class women? We will read about various strands of feminist thought —from radical feminism, socialist feminism, liberal feminism, to anarcho-feminism— and critique each strand. Finally, we will explore what proletarian feminism means in order to develop a revolutionary proletarian feminist politics. |
While this article was going to the press, the beginning of the general student strike in Québec was only a few hours away. Students at the Université du Québec à Montreal (studying humanities, arts, political science and law) were likely to initiate the movement, together with small departments at Université Laval and the Université de Montréal; they will be joined by the CEGEP de Valleyfield and Marie-Victorin next week. |
After weeks of unjust solitary confinement, Mumia Abu-Jamal has been finally transferred to the regular wing at the SCI Mahanoy prison in Frackville, Pennsylvania, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death sentence to which he was convicted 30 years ago was unconstitutional. For the first time, Mumia can benefit from the prison regular program, including the possibility to interact with other prisoners and receive contact visits. On this photo took on February 2nd, we can see a bright Mumia with his spokesperson Johanna Fernandez and Heidi Boghosian from the National Lawyers Guide. Three days earlier, Mumia had received his first contact visit from his wife Wadiya, with whom he was living at the time of his arrest; one can easily imagine the feelings they had together. |
Almost 70 organizations – including trade unions, student associations and anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist groups – have joined a call to end all cooperation with Canada’s spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). The campaign was recently launched at the initiative of the Montréal-based People’s Commission Network and has the warm endorsement of the Revolutionary Communist Party (PCR-RCP Canada) and its supporters. |
On January 26, about 15 people participated in the Red Aids’ fundraising activity, held at the Mille et Une Nuits restaurant, to commemorate the first year of the Tunisian revolution. Around a traditional couscous meal, the discussion started with a question: how an “awakening of history” is being expressed here in occidental countries through what is happening in Arabic society. This expression, “awakening of history” comes from the French philosopher Alain Badiou who was inspired by Maos’ thesis: “The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.” This thesis goes back to Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto in which they affirm that history is a series of class struggles between exploited classes and exploiting ones. |
Resistance is growing in Greece, while the bootlickers’ parliament just endorsed the austerity plan imposed by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. This new plan includes a 22% reduction of the minimum wage (32% for youth under 25), a complete wage freeze in the private sector, the immediate elimination of 15,000 jobs in the public sector and a reduction in spending of over one billion euros in the healthcare system. |
