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Malignant Ulcers of Capitalism: The Proletarian Struggle for Reproductive Freedom (Part 3)

June 4, 2022

In our first two pieces on reproductive struggles in class society we highlighted the family unit, prostitution, sex-selective abortions, sterilization, religion, bourgeois laws, and some of the facts and dangers surrounding abortion and contraception. This piece examines sexual violence in times of imperialist conflict and the impact that the climate crisis is having on reproduction. … More Malignant Ulcers of Capitalism: The Proletarian Struggle for Reproductive Freedom (Part 3)

Malignant ulcers of capitalism: The proletarian struggle for reproductive freedom (Part 2)

October 4, 2021

1919 Introduction The article which follows was first published on the website of the Internationalist Communist Tendency (leftcom.org) at the end of 2020. It sheds light on sterilization, sex selective abortions, religion, and bourgeois laws as specific to the needs of capital, while noting the consequential damages which are caused to the proletariat. Along with … More Malignant ulcers of capitalism: The proletarian struggle for reproductive freedom (Part 2)

Malignant ulcers of capitalism: The proletarian struggle for reproductive freedom (Part 1)

January 26, 2021

In this first piece on reproductive struggles in class society we bring to focus some of the facts and dangers surrounding abortion, as well as the family unit and prostitution, two phenomena that Marxists deem to be flipsides of the same coin, and inseparable from the struggle for reproductive freedom. In the following installments of … More Malignant ulcers of capitalism: The proletarian struggle for reproductive freedom (Part 1)