Hello everybody and happy international working women's day. This is Rev left radio and today

we have a special and very timely episode with the one and only professor Kristen Godsy to

discuss the actual history of international women's day, the sort of socialist and proletarian

forces behind it, how it's co-opted and then we get into a discussion of her book Second

World, Second Sex, which explores women's movements within the socialist's eastern countries,

the Soviet Union as well as their connection with struggles by and for women in the global

south and just tying all of these wonderful strains together showing how they forced

concessions by the western capitalist states with regards to women's rights and then we

explore what happens in lieu of those forces how neoliberalism can really take off unchallenged.

So we discuss so many wonderful things related to proletarian feminism and the general struggle

for women's liberation and how it's inherently connected with class struggle, with anti-imperialism

and with a vision of a wholly different world rooted in emancipatory anti-galitarian politics.

As always, Kristen Godsy is an absolute treasure and is a fountain of wisdom and knowledge

when it comes to this sort of stuff. So I'm really excited to have this conversation

and to share it and of course it's also the 110th anniversary of the proper beginning

of International Women's Day which makes it all the more interesting to have this episode

come out. Kristen of course has been on other Rev. Episodes are red, hang over episode,

why women have better sex under socialism episode so if you haven't heard those and

you like this conversation definitely check them out, though there's no specific order

of course in which you have to listen to them. Kristen also participated in something

I and many others participated in which is this ongoing Michael Brooks tribute series.

Michael Brooks obviously the famed and well-known and loved left-wing commentator who passed

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