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  1. Socialism and women's emancipation

    socialist women who made the first international appeal against the First World War, at a March 1915 ... women's oppression, and its achievements defined the Communist International's program on this ... Soviet law guaranteed women equal pay for equal work, while providing protection for women on the job. ...

  2. Socialist responses to capitalism’s first world war still resonate

    strongly today. The run-up to war began on June 28, 1914, when Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Hapsburg throne ... destroyed Serbian independence. Serbia rejected these demands, and Austria declared war on July 28. Over the ... out of the war the next year. Starting in August 1918, the Entente armies began a sustained advance on ...

  3. War, revolution and the birth of the Communist International

    of Stalinisation of the revolution came on the back of a bloody civil war and a massive foreign ... example, and only a few brief paragraphs on the oppression of women. Its main achievement lay in hoisting ... the revolution. In conditions of material hardship — Russia had already been devastated by World War ...

  4. 1907: Birth of socialism's great divide

    place at the dawn of the epoch of modern imperialism. Europe was teetering on the edge of war between ... 1907 congress, the socialist positions voiced there on war, colonialism and oppression retain their ... war. The congress pointed the way toward the Russian Revolution of 1917 and provided an enduring guide ...

  5. Nicaragua: Washington threatens reprisals as poor make gains

    key role on the community level. The FSLN leadership, including the president, has made women ... Caribbean Felipe Stuart Cournoyer John Riddell In a fit of petulant anger, the US government lashed out on ... personal take on the situation. The interview is abridged from JohnRiddel.wordpress.com. * * * US Secretary ...

  6. Cairo conference calls for resistance to imperialism

    "linking the rising movements of the left in Latin America with the anti-war movements on the one hand and ... region, together with delegates from anti-war coalitions in Canada, Korea, Venezuela and Europe. The ... the past year: •During last year's July war, the Lebanese revolutionary movement Hezbollah dealt ...

  7. How German workers' movement nearly won, then lost, the revolution

    their own words. In November 1918, during the final days of World War I, a worker-led uprising ... However, leaders of the largest workers’ party, the SPD, feared a social revolution. They called on the ... the victory of counter-revolution. Fowkes’s book focuses on the efforts of workers’ parties to resist ...

  8. Cuban revolutionary's case for international socialism

    role of peasants, the landless, Indigenous peoples, women, environmentalists and others. But his ... 1989-91. This led to a "strengthening of imperialist power, interference, and intervention on a world ... two main factors that led to the collapse. On the economic front, he quotes Panamanian theorist Nils ...