Weve lived through two world wars wire here, determined Women have always played a leading role in anti-war movements This means women pay the social cost of capitalism's austerity drive in a more direct way than men. The less appeal to militarism capitalism makes to women goes with this sexual dIVISIOn labour and the oppression of women in the home.
It is this understanding which explains women's leading role, not just in the fight against the missiles, but in would left sectarians have said, for example, movemen o women in who organised against the First World War?
At the height of the anti-labour legislation and of industrial conscription, the Women's Peace Crusade led a demonstration of 12,000 through, Glasgow, in July 1917, to protest against the war and send greetings to the workers of the february revoluin Russia. This was socialists like Agnes Dollan and Helen Crawford, who were integral to the suffragette movement Glasgow rent strikes. Would critics also say that this movement was reactionary because it was in the name of women?
It is precisely women's economic and social position, not biology or innate pacifism, which explains their leading, In anti-war as well as in tionary struggles from the Russian SNOREDDI present day
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