WOMEN AND THE CLASS STRUGGLE (original) (raw)

This report was published in the Bulletin of the Communist Platform, No.2, June–September 1978, and is an attempt to present the discussions of two socialist feminist workshops held in Bombay (a smaller, more theoretical Marxist discussion from 3 to 5 July, and a bigger discussion including a larger number of women activists from 6 to 8 July) in a coherent manner. It identifies sexual assault as a major issue, attempting to accommodate it within a revolutionary socialist perspective, and tries to understand the complexity of the struggle of proletarian women struggling to preserve a concern for personal relationships of mutual recognition and love, alongside more mainstream Marxist concerns like unwaged domestic labour.