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I start with the basics asking the question are women liberated?, after all its nearly the year 2,000, what is the status of women today? There is no denying things have got better, but still freedom is a bit of a way off. Why is this? Despite the fact that the struggle for women's liberation has been going on for hundreds of years, why are we still not equal. Why some women are more equal then others? To me much of the blame has to be laid at the door of the way society is organised in pursuit of profit. to find out more, have a look at an anarchist theory of women's oppression.
I'm writing from Ireland, which is still a very Catholic country. Happily the churches power is bit by bit being eroded. We've been engaged in a very long and complicated struggle for abortion rights.
In 1995 a referendum was passed which will allow separated couples to divorce. I tell you, it's great to win, here's how we reported on the victory in our paper Workers Solidarity Divorce victory This is a pamphlet we distributed at the time, which looks at the questions is the family natural, it's called Divorce..undermining the family?
Better dead than wed, say I.
It'd be quiet easy to be gloomy about women's fight, but I like to
remember that hand in hand with oppression has gone struggle against
that oppression. The human spirit isn't easily squashed. Here are a
few articles looking at the experiences of women and men fighting
back against injustice, I hope we can draw inspiration from their
lives and learn from their
experiences.
The first looks at the early left & women's liberation.
The second looks at that legend in her own life time, the women who said 'if I can't dance I don't want to be part of her own revolution', Emma Goldman. Interesting enough Emma Goldman and many of the Spanish women anarchists, were quite hostile to being described 'feminists'. To them feminism meant the struggle of middle class women to be equal with middle class men, while to them women's liberation entailed the struggle of men and women for a freer society for all. I think this is a debate that still goes on today, what do you think?
Louise Michel was a French anarchist women who fought in the Paris commune and after escaping the death penalty spent the rest of her life in the anarchist movement.
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This is the text of a talk I gave on women in the Spanish revolution. It's based on information from an excellent book by Martha Ackersberg called Free Women of Spain. I can't recommend it highly enough, try and get you hands on it. It's full of interviews with survivors from Spain, and throws up lots of questions about the nature of anarchism, about revolution and about women's liberation. Have a look. Women in the Spanish Revolution
I don't have all the answers. There isn't any scared text laying out a five point plan for certain success. I get my ideas from reading about how other people have and from my own experiences in campaigns etc. Every days a school day, ideas evolve, change and grow overtime. The big question is how women can organise for liberation?, here's what I think. I hope you find my ideas helpful, and good luck, here's to a better future for all of us. Here is a list of anarcho-femminist books and articles
Ireland introduces more repressive anti-prostitution laws
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