Structurally some anarchists and feminists have argued that structureless groups without formal positions, leaders or procedures are the 'natural' form of organisation for both feminists and anarchists. Structureless organisations however give rise to informal elites who are not democratically accountable. In practice, this means that the less articulate and those not in favour with the elite, who are in fact controlling the group, are excluded from any real participation. We in the Workers Solidarity Movement recognise that womens oppression is essentially a class issue. Working class women are far more effected by the unequal position of women in society than middle class or upper class women.
Feminism is an all-class alliance which sees all women as equally oppressed.
Organisationally feminism promotes women-only groups and campaigns. We in the W.S.M. recognise that women have the right to organise separately as all interest groups have. However we take the position that campaigning separately is a mistake. Campaigns such as the abortion rights campaign should be open to both men and women, both to maximise the forces in the campaign and because we believe that issues such as this one are essentially class issues and not just womens issues. Basically we view feminism as a progressive movement but one which is capable of taking up confused and sometimes reactionary demands because it fails to locate the cause of womens oppression in the class nature of capitalist society.