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'''Resolutions from the 13th World Congress''' | '''Resolutions from the 13th World Congress''' | ||
* [http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article3984 Positive Action – Women in our parties] | |||
''' Further reading''' | |||
* [http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article3982 European Women’s Liberation: Changing forms of the struggle for women’s liberation] | * [http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article3982 European Women’s Liberation: Changing forms of the struggle for women’s liberation] | ||
* [http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article3983 Latin American Women’s Liberation: Dynamics of mass movements and feminist currents] | * [http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article3983 Latin American Women’s Liberation: Dynamics of mass movements and feminist currents] | ||
* 11th World Congress of the 4th International Resolution [http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1589 "Socialist Revolution and the Struggle for Women’s Liberation"] (1979) | * 11th World Congress of the 4th International Resolution [http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1589 "Socialist Revolution and the Struggle for Women’s Liberation"] (1979) |
Revision as of 15:30, 19 August 2011
Readings
- "Our methods of struggle" Media:Our_methods_of_struggle-Reso_IV-1979.odt (Extract from the 11th World Congress of the 4th International Resolution "Socialist Revolution and the Struggle for Women’s Liberation")
Resolutions from the 13th World Congress
Further reading
- 11th World Congress of the 4th International Resolution "Socialist Revolution and the Struggle for Women’s Liberation" (1979)
Outline of the talk
The work of women
- Characteristics of the female work force:
- non paid domestic work
- the wages of women
- specific oppression and double exploitation
- Reconstruction of the worker’s family
- Role of the family and contradiction with the potential independence of women
- Conclusions
- the system makes use of the double working day of women
- man benefit from this situation
- women’s work and gender roles
Origins and growth of the women’s movement in the 19th century
- Flora Tristan (1803-1844)
- The First International
- Louise Michel (1830-1905) and the Paris Commune (1871)
- The Second International
- Specific organisations of women
- Clara Zetkin (1857-1933)
- The Russian Revolution and Alexandra Kollontaï (1872-1952)
Strategic importance of an autonomous women’s movement
- women’s rights in the 19th century
- the new feminism after 1968
- necessity of active participation of women in the struggles
- specific or patriarchal oppression
- autonomous movement and principles of self organisation
- autonomous women’s movement and revolutionary or anticapitalist parties
- autonomous women’s movement and our vision on socialism
Conclusions
- understanding specific oppression
- neoliberal globalisation and women
- gender studies and other oppressions (racism, ethnic minorities,…)
- the question of the LGBT movement
- victory in the struggles and socialist feminism