This month's Marxist IQ  salutes Women's History Month

1.Women were active in the socialist and labor movements from their earliest days. During the Paris Commune of 1871 Revolutionary Women, including  some connected to the First International 

a.called for complete equality between male and female workers

b. called for secular divorce, full rights for illegitimate children, and the abolition of prostitution

 .organized a woman's battalion and fought on the barricades with the male Communards

d.  all of the above

2. A member of the Socialist Party of America before and during WWI, this women faced arrest and had to flee the country for her dissemination of birth control information.  Later she was the principal founder of Planned Parenthood

a.Edith Bolling Wilson

b. Margaret Sanger

c. Susan B. Anthony

d. Grace Coolidge

3. Beginning in the 1920s,  women's rights activists followed the establishment of women's suffrage by  seeking to enact

a. the elimination  of the income tax

b. a "right to life" constitutional admendment

c. an equal rights constitutional amendment

d. the abolition of secular divorce laws

4.In the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, this woman leader of the Communist Party of Spain inspired men and women to fight against facism and came to be known through the world as La Passionaria.  She was 

a.Delores Ibarruri

b. Angela Merkel

c.Lupe Velez

d. Isabel Allende

5. Capitalists have "earned" extra profits by

a. denying women workers equal pay for equal work

b.restricting women workers to low paying service and domestic employment

c. playing male and female workers against each other through systems of male job preference to undermine labor solidarity and keep wages and salaries down

d. all of the above

Answers to last month's Marxist IQ

1.a

2.d

3.c

4.a

5.d