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Women must build a cross-industry anti-austerity alliance
From education to care sector struggles, Scotland’s women workers must build up a resistance network on all fronts and drive their unions’ demands for transformative change to victory, writes STEPHANIE MARTIN
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MORNING STAR readers are acutely aware of the ways in which capitalism is sustained by the oppression of women. Women’s oppression has intensified in recent years.

We have witnessed a wholesale erosion of women’s rights as the US and Nato-backed genocide in Gaza tears apart the lives and bodies of Palestinian women and children. The National Police Chiefs Council has declared the levels of male violence towards women and girls a “national emergency,” and the reversal of Roe v Wade has seen reproductive rights heavily restricted in some parts of the US.

Furthermore, the Covid-19 Inquiry shows the disproportionate impact that the virus and lockdown measures had on Scotland’s lowest-paid workers, who STUC general secretary Roz Foyer says were “killed by their class.”

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