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NY 100-18676 “womon, the placing of woman in the modern bourgeol family, as tho 'proletariatt of the man, who assume the role of tbourgeoisic,' "Honce, Marxist-Loninists fight to free woman of houschold drudgery, they fight to win cquality for women in all spheres; they rocognize that one cannot adequately decal with tho woman qucstion or win women for progressive participation uniess one takes up the special problcoms, needs 4nd aspirations of women--as womcn, "It is this basic principle that has governed the thoory and practice of the Communist Party for the last three decades. "As a rosult, our Party has chalked up a proud record of struggle for the rights of wamen. American literature has been cnhancod by the works of Marxists who investigated tho status of women in the U.S. in the '30ts, Its rocord is symbolized in the lives of such outstanding women Communists as ELLA REEVE BLOOR and ANIT. WHITNEY and othora who are assoclatod with the fight for women's suffrage, for tho rights of the Negro people, for working class emancipation. "Our Party and its loadership helped stimlate the organization of women in the trade unions and helped activize the wives of workers in the great labor organ- izing drives; built houscwives! councils to fight against the high cost of living; teught women through the boycott = Y and other militant actions how to fight for the needs of oF the family; helped to train and mold women Commnist Saad leaders on all lovels, working class women inspired by the convictions and ideals of their class--the working class. "A piloneor in tho fight for the organization of working class women, our Party was the first to demon- strate to white women and to the working class that the peril a