It Doesn’t Have to be Like This: Women and the Struggle for Socialism, Christine Thomas

What consequences will the economic crisis and its aftermath have for women? Will the important changes that have already taken place withstand the effects of this dramatic new period? Or will the film of history begin to unwind? Are inequality, discrimination and oppression inevitable part of our lives? Christine Thomas was the Socialist Party’s national women’s organiser from 1994 to 2006. She has written extensively on the question of women’s oppression for the Socialist newspaper and the Socialist Party’s theoretical magazine Socialism Today.