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October 21 Women and Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital

WomenSocialismNYC

Wednesday, October 21 7:oo pm
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave, Room c203

More than forty years after the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s, women remain without equal rights. If anything, each decade that has passed without a fighting women’s movement has seen a rise in blatant sexism and the further erosion of the gains that were won in the 1960s and 1970s. Join a discussion with Sharon Smith that takes up issues of women’s oppression from a Marxist perspective— focusing on the centrality of race and class—amid the stirrings of a new movement today.

SMITHSHARON SMITH is the author of Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States. Her writings appear regularly in Socialist Worker and the International Socialist Review.

SPONSORED BY: THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST ORGANIZATION | SOCIALISTWORKER.ORG | INTERNATIONALSOCIALIST.ORGBOOK TOUR