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Women, class and gender – a Communist perspective
MARY DAVIS explains the Communist Party of Britain’s understanding of the difference between oppression and discrimination and why it opposes the rise of individualist identity politics as harmful to the women’s movement and beyond
Clara Zetkin (left) and Rosa Luxemburg

INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day (IWD) has become a corporate event reflecting the now mainstream ideology of “corporate feminism.” 

This year its theme is #BalanceforBetter. The anonymous organisers of IWD events assert that “balance” is not a women’s issue, it’s a business issue and thus their “flagship events are backed by significant corporate and/or government sponsorship.”

Sponsors include Amazon, Rio Tinto, McDonald’s, Vodafone and a host of other robber barons.

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