14/04/2024
The Communist Party of the USA has issued a discussion document prior to its annual convention, looking at the left movement and women's liberation. The document is quite lengthy, but interesting snippets include "In the aftermath of the overturn of Roe v. Wade and the rise of reactionary attempts to push women back into the home, redefine the family upon a reactionary and regressive basis, and legislate trans women out of existence, it becomes an essential task of the Communist Party to renew the struggle against male supremacy, both within the organization and in society at large. There area few key areas in which we must do this work: we must expand our study of Marxism on women’s oppression, work to incorporate the social reproductive sphere into our work, strengthening and expanding structures and campaigns to tackle internal male chauvinism, to build unity in this fight, and enhance our role in the struggle for women’s liberation.... We must expand the amount of literature we have covering women’s issues in the International Publishers catalog, produce Party pamphlets and literature which illustrate the Party’s investment in this fight and the answer that socialism provides for women’s liberation, and double and triple our participation in women’s liberation movements. We must be at the forefront of the struggle for reproductive justice, for gender and bodily self-determination, for women’s access to healthcare and jobs, for the struggle against the triple oppression of women of color, for the leadership of women, and women of color in particular, in the labor movement." The full discussion document, which was penned by Bennett Shoop, is available at the party's website. Bennett Shoop, is a queer organizer for the Claudia Jones School for Political Education and member of the D.C. Young Communist League and an expert in radical LGBTQ+ history and theory.
