The Detroit Club of the CPUSA

Abortion rights are once again on the chopping block. After Texas passed a law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, the question of reproductive rights has again emerged on a national scale. The white-supremacist and patriarchal power-structure of the United States ruling class is dependent on the exploitation, abuse, and control of female bodies. This ensures a well-oiled capitalist system that functions on top of free or cheap labor based on the lie of gender roles and properly “supporting the family.” This dynamic necessitates the establishment of laws that fully depend on a false pretext of morality so that the “choice” always remains between good and evil.

The reproductive health of women of color is the most compromised, and specifically the women of the working class and poor. Laws that prohibit access to abortion services do not address what is required to raise a child. Inaccessible healthcare, low wages, no paid-time off, and the physical over-labor of manual work do not address what is required to raise a child. Our struggle against this repressive system will not last if we do not recognize this fact. Our proletarian class, of which women and femme bodies are the majority, is a class of all genders and all sexualities. It is also a class of all races and nations. The diversity of our trauma reflects the diversity of our populace, and to the US ruling class, the means of our oppression is an asset to the preservation of monopoly capitalism and American imperialism. The question of female reproductive rights is a question of the agency and liberation of women, and the liberation of women must mean the liberation of all oppressed people. The power to liberate all people comes from the unification of all races, genders, and sexualities, which is the unification of the working class. We will never win this fight if we do not recognize this fact.

Abroad, women are just as exploited, as abused, and as controlled by US forces as the women at home. Our struggle against the common force can only go so far without recognizing this fact. So, today we march in solidarity alongside our brothers, sisters, and neighbors in protest of the many dangerous laws that compromise women’s reproductive health. We are communists because we believe in the end to the oppressive forces that exploit, abuse, and control female bodies. We are communists because we believe in the collective power of the working class to end this exploitative system, and build a society in which workers reclaim the products of their labor, and women reclaim the agency of their bodies. We are communists because we demand reproductive rights. We call for a popular front now, and we have no time to waste—after all, we’ve got a world to win.

In Solidarity,

Detroit Club, Michigan District, CPUSA

hotlinedet@cpusa.org

michigan@cpusa.org