Historic Documents on Women

In this section of our web site we will repost a variety of documents produced by Revolutionary Regroupment's political predecessors, concentrating on the post-WW 2 period of the Trotskyist movement. While we seek to continue the work and build on the contributions of those who came before us, we do not dogmatically defend past mistakes that may inevitably have been committed. Therefore our posting these documents reflects broad agreement, not an uncritical adherence to every secondary argument and formulation. For a fuller documentation see the Marxists Internet Archive (www.marxists.org) and material published on the web site of the International Bolshevik Tendency (www.bolshevik.org) before our break with them on 9/25/08.

Please read our introduction to these documents

Added 3/30/10; Women Who Won The Right to Vote: The Suffragist Movement  by Joyce Cowley. First printed in Fourth International, Spring 1955. Joyce Cowley was one of the original signers of the June 1962 "In Defence of the Revolutionary Program", the founding statement of the Revolutionary Tendency within the US Socialist Workers Party.

Added 3/1/09: The Fight For Women's Liberation.  Revolutionary Marxist Caucus position paper presented at the Students for a Democratic Society December 1969 conference.

Added 4/4/09: Toward a Communist Women's Movement!  First printed in Women and Revolution #4, Fall 1973.

Added 3/30/10; The Private Life of Islam: A Review  First printed in Women & Revolution #10, Winter 1975-76

Added 3/1/09: International Women's Day: A Proletarian Holiday. First printed in Women and Revolution #8, Spring 1976.

Added 3/30/10; Feminism & ‘Moral Panics’  First printed in 1917 No.2, Summer 1986.

Updated 3/14/09: Smash Anti-Abortion Reaction! First printed in 1917 #7, Winter 1990. Also included are the box "Women and the Russian Revolution" originally appended to this article and an undated Bolshevik Tendency leaflet produced from the late 80's titled "No More Wire Hangers!"

Added 4/4/09: Marxism, Feminism & Women's Liberation.  First printed in 1917 #19.