Politics

What did the early Marxists think about birth control and women's rights? How did their views differ from those of the liberal feminists? Deborah Lavin https://youtu.be/sB6oRvLy5tw?t=75 An excellent, entertaining, and informative talk by Comrade Deborah Lavin given to a meeting to mark International Working Women’s Day, held by the CPGB-ML and Red Youth in Birmingham on 8 March 2014. She gives a fascinating insight into Victorian life, and the bourgeois and proletarian trends in the struggle for women’s liberation and for the vote, passing over, among other things, the North London Collegiate School (NLCS), Women at University College London (UCL), Edith Lanchester, Milicent Fawcett and Annie Besant. She notes that while bourgeois ladies, alo...

Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr Deborah Lavin DEBORAH LAVIN, who died last month aged 68, was a socialist historian, author, actor, activist, mother, mentor, friend and occasional firebrand. Her funeral service, which in normal times would have seen Islington Crematorium packed to the rafters, was streamed online, with only close family and friends attending, due to Covid-19 virus restrictions. It was watched by comrades worldwide; many had campaigned alongside Lavin, or been influenced and inspired by her work. Born Eileen Maurice Lavin in Lambeth on December 2 1951, she was the middle child of three children to Michael, an artist, and his wife Mary, a dancer. The family, including “Deborah” as she’d been dubbed, and her brothers Michael and David, moved to Toronto,...