Radical Women

WHO WE ARE Radical Women is an international organization, founded in 1967 in the United States, where we are the oldest socialist feminist group in existence. We are women of color, Jews, and whites, workers and students, queers and straight women, the old and the young.

Radical Women is dedicated to exposing, resisting and eliminating the inequities of women's existence. To accomplish this task of insuring survival for an entire sex, we must simultaneously address ourselves to the social and material source of sexism: the capitalist form of production and distribution of products, characterized by intrinsic class, race, sex, ethnic and caste oppression. When we work for the revolutionary transformation of capitalism into a socialist society, we work for a world in which all people may enjoy the right of full humanity and freedom from poverty, war, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and repression.

We believe that the liberation of women is indissolubly linked to the battle against all the burning injustices that define capitalism. We constitute at least half of every stratum of the exploited and are part of every struggle for freedom. We experience in life the commonality among all forms of subjugation and their shared origin — the insatiable demands of capital for profit. Thus, we cannot isolate our struggle by creating a single-issue movement that ignores the multifaceted reality of women's oppression. All oppressed groups are fighting the same enemy, and we must build a movement that can bring our separate struggles together. Unified we become strong.
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THE FREEDOM SOCIALIST PARTY IS a revolutionary, socialist feminist organization, dedicated to the replacement of capitalist rule by a genuine workers' democracy that will guarantee full economic, social, political, and legal equality to women, people of color, gays, and all who are exploited, oppressed, and repelled by the profit system and its offshoot -- imperialism.
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