Abortion rights and the struggle for socialism

Fifty years ago, the US Supreme Court passed its famous Roe v Wade ruling, providing abortion rights to women in America. Today, these same rights are being ripped up. The fight to end women’s oppression must be a fight for socialist revolution.

This week’s episode of International Marxist Radio welcomes Ylva Vinberg, leading comrade of Revolution, the Swedish section of the International Marxist Tendency, and Fred Weston, co-author of Wellred Books’ latest publication, Women, Family and the Russian Revolution – available to pre-order now! To mark International Working Women’s Day, this episode focuses on the Marxist position on the struggle for women’s liberation, and the positive example embodied by the tremendous advances accomplished by the Russian Revolution.

As we celebrate International Working Women’s Day, Wellred Books is publishing a new book, ‘Women, Family and the Russian Revolution’ by John Peter Roberts and Fred Weston. Why publish a Marxist book on women and the Russian Revolution in the year 2023? The answer is that, more than 100 years after the Russian Revolution, we are still very far from achieving genuine equality between men and women. The women’s question has been transformed into one of identity, to be solved within the confines of capitalist society. We maintain that it remains a question closely linked to the class issues we face under capitalism.

Desde el año 2018 la lucha de las mujeres por la conquista de nuestros derechos y por la igualdad ha alcanzado una dimensión de masas. Ese año, en el que se convocó la primera huelga general con motivo del 8 de Marzo, supuso un desborde inesperado y atrajo a la lucha a decenas de miles de mujeres, la mayoría jóvenes.

"Es increíble!", exclamó la Dra. Erica Nelson, coautora de un artículo sobre una colección de manchas rojas y borrosas de luz de galaxias distantes captadas por el Telescopio Espacial James Webb (JWST): "Estas galaxias no deberían haber tenido tiempo de formarse." Y, sin embargo, ¡ahí están! Galaxias masivas, maduras, insolentes, que brillan intensamente, ignorando por completo el hecho de que la teoría del Big Bang dice que no pueden existir.