Alexandra Kollontai was a Marxist, a fighter for women's liberation and a government minister after the Russian revolution of October 1917. In 1909 she wrote a pamphlet, The Social Basis of the Woman Question, to challenge the arguments raised by bourgeois feminists. Caitlin Doyle-Markwick talks about her ideas and their relevance today.
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The fight for trans liberation
The NDIS: where disability has a market price
Does Australia need an independent foreign policy?
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The imperialist alliance: Australia, the US and the Asia-Pacific
Palestinian resistance and revolution in the Middle East
COVID and the cops
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Palestine and the Unity Intifada
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COVID and the working class
The struggle today in Aotearoa / New Zealand
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