Audio File: Women and the Labour Movement Print E-mail
By Barbara Humphries   
Thursday, 31 January 2008

woman_worker.jpgThe liberation of women and the socialist revolution are inseperable tasks requiring the active participation of women workers in the organised labour movement. This recording of Barbara Humphries speaking at the Socialist Appeal xmas day school explains the double expoitation of women under the capitalist system, the history of women in the labour movement, the impact of imperialist aggression on women and the nature of feminism and positive discrimination.

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See also: The strike at Grunwicks 1976-1978 - 30 years on   By Barbara Humphries, 05 September 2007

Remembering International Women’s Day 1917 - The gains made for women by the Russian Revolution  By Miriam Martin,  08 March 2007

Marxism and the emancipation of women  By Ana Muñoz and Alan Woods, 08 March 2000