Evelyn Reed (1905 – 1979) was a communist in the United States and women’s rights agitator. In January 1940, she went down to Mexico to see the exiled Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova. There in the house of Trotsky in Coyoacán, Reed met the American Trotskyist leader James P. Cannon and she joined the Socialist Workers Party the same year, and remained a leading member of the party until her death. 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... Feminism is a diverse, competing, and often opposing collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... (Russian: Лев Давидович Троцкий; also transliterated Leo, Lev, Trotskii, Trotski, Trotskij, Trockij and Trotzky) (November 7 [O.S. October 26] 1879 – August 21, 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronstein (Лев Давидович Бронштейн), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. ... Natalia Sedova Natalia Sedova (1882-1962) is best known as the second wife of Leon Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary. ... Plaza Hidalgo Coyoacán (Place of the coyotes in Nahuatl) is one of the 16 delegaciones (boroughs) into which Mexicos Federal District is divided. ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... James Cannon in Moscow (1922) James Patrick Cannon (1890-1974) was an American Communist and Trotskyist leader. ... The Socialist Workers Party is a socialist political party in the United States. ...

An active participant in the Women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Reed was a founging member of the Women’s National Abortion Action Coalition in 1971. During these years she spoke and debated on women’s rights in cities throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Ireland, the United Kingdom and France. Feminism is a body of social theory and a political movement primarily based on, and motivated by, the experiences of women. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...

Inspired especially of the works on women and the family by Friedrich Engels and Alexandra Kollontay, Evelyn Reed is the author of many books on Marxist feminism and the origin of the oppression of women and the fight for their emancipation. Some of the most notable works by Evelyn Reed are: Problems of Women’s Liberation, Woman’s Evolution: From Matriarchal Clan to Patriarchal Family, Is Biology Woman’s Destiny?, and Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women (with Joseph Hansen and Mary-Alice Waters.) Many of these books have been translated into other languages. Friedrich Engels (November 28, 1820–August 5, 1895) was a 19th-century German political philosopher. ... Alexandra Mikhaylovna Kollontai (Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й — born Domontovich, Домонто́вич) (March 31 (March 19, O.S.), 1872 - March 9, 1952) was a Ukrainian Communist revolutionary, first as a member of the Mensheviks, then from 1914 on as a Bolshevik. ... Marxist feminism is a sub-type of feminist theory which focuses on the dismantling of capitalism as a way to liberate women and states that capitalism, which gives rise to economic inequality, dependence, political confusion and ultimately unhealthy social relations between men and women, is the root of womens... Joseph Hansen (1910-1979), was an American Communist and leading figure in the Socialist Workers Party. ...

She was nominated as a candidate for President of the United States for the Socialist Workers Party in the United States presidential election, 1972. On the ballot in just Indiana, New York, and Wisconsin, she received 13,878 votes. The main candidate for the Party was Linda Jenness who received 37,423 votes. Election was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon of the Republican Party. Presidential electoral votes by state. ... Official language(s) English Capital Indianapolis Largest city Indianapolis Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 38th 94,321 km² 225 km 435 km 1. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 455 km 530 km 13. ... Official language(s) None Capital Madison Largest city Milwaukee Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 23rd 169,790 km² 420 km 500 km 17 42°30N to 47°3N 86°49W to 92°54W Population  - Total (2000)  - Density Ranked 18th 5,453,896 38. ... Socialist Workers Party candidate for president in 1972. ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ... The Republican Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States two-party system, the other one being the Democratic Party. ...

Fred W. Halstead (April 21, 1927 — June 2, 1988) was a candidate for President of the United States of the Socialist Workers Party in 1968. ... The Socialist Workers Party is a socialist political party in the United States. ... The presidential seal was used by president Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... Peter Miguel Camejo Peter Miguel Camejo (born December 31, 1939) is a financier, businessman, political activist, author, and one of the founders of the socially responsible investment movement. ...

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"The woman question can only be resolved through the lineup of working men and women against the ruling men and women. This means that the interests of the workers as a class are identical; and not the interests of all women as a sex. Ruling-class women have exactly the same interest in upholding and perpetuating capitalist society as their men have. The bourgeois feminists fought, among other things, for the right of women as well as men to hold property in their own name. They won this right. Today, plutocratic women hold fabulous wealth in their own names. They are completely in alliance with the plutocratic men to perpetuate the capitalist system. They are not in alliance with the working women, whose needs can only be served through the abolition of capitalism. Thus, the emancipation of working women will not be achieved in alliance with women of the enemy class, but just the opposite; in a struggle against them as part and parcel of the whole class struggle."

- Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women

External links

• Pathfinder Books, Publisher of the Socialist Workers Party and the works of Evelyn Reed
• The Lubitz TrotskyanaNet provides a bio-bibliographical sketch of Evelyn Reed
• Evelyn Reed Archive at Marxists.org