universal female suffrage, should stand by them in fighting the common enemy on different fronts. However, the workingwomen must be fully aware of the fact that the right to vote cannot be won through a struggle of the female sex without any class discrimination against the male sex, but only through the class struggle of all the exploited, without any sex discrimination, against all the exploiters, always without any sex discrimination." Only when all oppressed peoples work together can the work of re-shaping society happen. &lt;tries to look hopeful&gt; Mini, I think it would be a mistake to idealise women?s position in Soviet Russia. Certainly, there were valuable moves towards emancipation, but whatever provision made was not made with women?s interests in mind, it was to serve the political ends of the Communist party. Women?s rights were still seen as subordinate to the interests of the (male) working class. What they ended up with was not equality, but the idea of the dual burden (women as worker and women as mother). Actually I'm yet to go back and read your link SummerFlower. I'm very interested in the Holocaust (fathers family Jewish),so will have read later. Agree the fascists are very misogynistic, just from what I already know. I wouldn't idealise Russia after the revolution either but I was making the point that change can happen, women are central to this, not just another group with competing interests. As women I believe we should allign ourselves with causes that will further