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From Step Aside Brother to Step Forward Sister
Through self-organisation, women learn from other women and identify for themselves the barriers to their full participation in our movement. LYNN HENDERSON spotlights her new scheme to encourage women to step forward and get involved

A GENERATION ago, Angela Davis writing on women, race and class woke many to what is now described as intersectional oppression. 

Without losing sight of class politics, Davis exposed how capitalism, patriarchy and racial inequality historically develop together. 

Gendered economic inequality and oppression of women at work remain the dominant structural barriers to working-class advance the world over. 

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