Red Star (publication)

"[5] Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology founded on the works and ideas of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin.

The Red Women's Detachment's was run by a Central Committee and had a structured organizational system.

[2][10][11] One of the countries included India, where the article discuss the involvement of Indian women in the Peasant Armed Revolutionary Struggle[11] such as the 1967 Naxalbari Uprising, where peasants and laborers revolted against the local government and land owners.

[3] The welfare discussion based in their revolutionary ideals argues that they "will never get what [they] want except by an armed revolution followed by socialism.

[15] The first issue of Red Star includes a two-page article entitled "The Genocideology of Birth Control" and the second issue includes an "Open Letter to Welfare Women" that discusses birth control and forced sterilization to prevent working-class women from reproducing.

[4][3] The Red Women's Detachment reports Richard Nixon July 18, 1969 address to Congress, where he explained the dangers of population growth and advocated creating the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future and an increased availability for family planning.

[4][16] The Red Women's Detachment critiques Malthusian notions of population control and refers to family planning efforts by the government as "conspiratorial schemes of racial extermination.

[1] The experience of working-class women was different from middle and upper classes as their economic position did not allow them to stay in the private sphere.

Therefore, their struggles did not align with that of women's groups attempting to gain autonomy and fulfillment through entering the workforce.