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Written by Alan Woods and Ted Grant (2000)
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 00:00 |
The final part of the document deals with the question of the National Question today. It covers a number of areas including the situation in Euskadi and in the north of Ireland. The document also includes as an appendix the Preliminary Draft Theses on the National and the Colonial Questions from the Second Congress of the Third (Communist) International
At the time of writing the Good Friday Agreement had just been signed. The argument that Alan Woods and Ted Grant make in repect of the position within Irish Republicanism is very clear and is as valid today as it was in 2000. In the past period the ferment in side Sinn Fein has been reflected in a trickle of defections. As the ecomonic crisis begins to have a greater effect politically in the north we can anticipate increasing class divisions and greater contradictions within the Sinn Fein and the Unionists. Over time the gaping vaccuum in working class political representation in the north will be overcome.
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Written by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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Friday, 12 March 2010 19:37 |
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"The working woman and the peasant woman are oppressed by capital, but over and above that, even in the most democratic of the bourgeois republics, they remain, firstly, deprived of some rights because the law does not give them equality with men; and secondly - and this is the main thing - they remain in "household bondage", they continue to be “household slaves", for they are overburdened with the drudgery of the most squalid, backbreaking and stultifying toil in the kitchen and the family household." V.I.Lenin, March 4, 1921
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Written by Marie Frederiksen
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Friday, 12 March 2010 19:13 |
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Biological differences between the sexes are often raised to justify all kinds of reactionary concepts, such as supposed differences in intelligence. These are also used to justify confining women to the four walls of the home, as if this were somehow biologically inbuilt. In reality, these ideas reflect material forces that have emerged as a result of the development of class society, where one class oppresses another.
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Written by Marie Frederiksen (Denmark)
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:00 |
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One hundred years ago today (8th March), 99 women from 17 different countries attended the Socialist Women's Conference held in Copenhagen in the House of the People. In this first part, we look at the origins of Women's Day, the origin of women's oppression in class society, how capitalism lays the material foundations upon which the question of women's emancipation can be tackled as part of the struggle of the working class for the emancipation of the whole of humanity from class oppression.
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Written by Alan Woods and Ted Grant (2000)
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 00:00 |
Part 4 deals with the development of the national Question in the period after the October Revolution and the Rise of Stalinism. It details Lenin and Trotsky's struggle against Great Russian Chauvinism and against the Counter Revolutionary theory of Socialism in one country. This represented the defence of the genuine ideas of Marxism against the bureaucratic reaction of Stalinism. What Trotsky termed the Thermidorean reaction.
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