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By Marie Frederiksen
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
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One hundred years ago today, 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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By Marie Frederiksen
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 |
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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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By Simon WIlliams
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Saturday, 09 June 2007 |
This week a furore has blown up over threats made by the Catholic Cardinal Pell and his counterpart Archbishop Hickey in Perth against Catholic politicians who support stem cell research. Pell has raised the nightmare scenario of mad scientists cloning human-hamster hybrids from embryonic stem cells. The reality is that this technology, while still in its early stages, has the potential to cure several devastating medical conditions.
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By Mick Brooks
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Thursday, 26 April 2007 |
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Revently there have been moves by so-called private equity consortiums to take over household names such as Qantas and Coles.Behind the term "private equity" hides good old "asset stripping". It is not about making things. It's about making money from money, buying up companies, stripping them and selling them off with a mountain of debt. Here we reproduce an article from Britain's Socialist Appeal which explains what this is all about.
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