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For Women’s History Month, People’s World presents this article from the Political Affairs archives. It was first published in April 2010. From its very outset, the struggle for women’s liberation has had deep connections to the development of the socialist movement.
The ISL and Vernyk’s trade union are actively encouraging their members to join the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine, the official umbrella for hundreds of paramilitary detachments that are now playing a major role in fighting the Russian army on behalf of NATO and the Ukrainian state.
For revolutionary internationalists, the determining question is not “who fired the first shot,” but rather what is the general character of a given war and the social forces behind it.