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1979 World Congress: | 1979 World Congress: Socialist Revolution and the Struggle for Women’s Liberation | ||
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1991 World Congress: | 1991 World Congress: Latin America: Dynamics of mass movements and feminist currents http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article142 | ||
The Revolution Betrayed by Léon Trotsky | The Revolution Betrayed by Léon Trotsky “Thermidor in the Family" https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/ch07.htm | ||
Penelope Duggan | Penelope Duggan The feminist challenge to traditional political organising | ||
http://archive.4edu.info/Youth_2007/ESY_12.11_Penelope_WP33.htm | http://archive.4edu.info/Youth_2007/ESY_12.11_Penelope_WP33.htm | ||
Jo Freeman | Jo Freeman The Tyranny of Structurelessness http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm | ||
and Jo Freeman | and Jo Freeman The Tyranny of Structurelessness http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/wlmpc_wlmms01018/ | ||
PRT Mexico 1988 | PRT Mexico 1988 Sanctions in a feminist party http://www.4edu.info/index.php?title=Sanctions_in_a_feminist_party | ||
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Ecosocialist School IIRE Amsterdam
2nd December 2016
The feminist challenge in changing society: feminizing our perspectives and our movements
Speaker: Penelope Duggan
“In order to change the conditions of life we must learn to see them through the eyes of women.”
Leon Trotsky (“Against Bureaucracy, Progressive And Unprogressive“ in Problems of Life, from MIA http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/xx/bureaucracy.htm.)
1. Understanding the world:
Class, gender, race
a) women are 52% of the population
b) women, all women, are oppressed
c) capitalism uses and reinforces existing oppression to increase its ability to exploit
d) a radical fight against capitalism must take as its starting point the deepest experiences of oppression and exploitation
2. Understanding the resistance
a) politicisation starts from real experience
- women's role in the family
- women's experience “as women”
- women's place as workers
b) self-organisation is the key
- autonomous women's movement, a strategic necessity
3. How can our parties embody this understanding?
a) place for women
b) representation of women
c) taking women's politics seriously
d) sanctions in a feminist party
Reading material:
1979 World Congress: Socialist Revolution and the Struggle for Women’s Liberation
http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1586
1991 World Congress: Latin America: Dynamics of mass movements and feminist currents http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article142
The Revolution Betrayed by Léon Trotsky “Thermidor in the Family" https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/ch07.htm
Penelope Duggan The feminist challenge to traditional political organising http://archive.4edu.info/Youth_2007/ESY_12.11_Penelope_WP33.htm
Jo Freeman The Tyranny of Structurelessness http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
and Jo Freeman The Tyranny of Structurelessness http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/wlmpc_wlmms01018/
PRT Mexico 1988 Sanctions in a feminist party http://www.4edu.info/index.php?title=Sanctions_in_a_feminist_party