1. Marxists, socialists, and communists have been leaders of the struggle to achieve gender equality in order to

b. unite the working class, end wage discrimination against women and gender-based job segregation, and build alliances in the wider struggle for gender equality in all areas of society.

2. The Trump administration repealed affirmative action executive orders from the 1960s. While the term did not exist at the time, the first “affirmative action” labor contracts, which gave women a higher wage increase than men because of past discrimination, were negotiated by

a. the Communist-led United Electrical Workers Union in the pre–Cold War era contract, which provided higher wage increases for women who been paid less for equal work.

3. After the counter-revolution which destroyed the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Treaty socialist allies,

d. the rights of women have come under renewed attack with the strengthening of the right globally. The right to an abortion has been abolished in some countries; and the elimination of full-employment policies, access to childcare, and other pro-equality measures — particularly in the previously socialist countries — have also undermined the social position of women.

4. Women members of the Communist Party USA have made major contributions to a wide variety of people’s struggles and victories throughout U.S. history. Which one of the following was not a woman who made major contributions to people’s struggles as a CPUSA activist?

c. Alice Paul

5. The CPUSA today actively campaigns for

a. the restoration of abortion and general reproductive rights for all women.
b. the passage of an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to make gender equality a part of the U.S. Constitution.
c. the restoration and protection of affirmative action policy for minorities and women.
d. All of the above

Your score:
0 wrong: Theoretician. Write an article! Teach a class!!
1 wrong: Developed Marxist. Form a study group, join the party.
2 to 3 wrong: Developing Marxist. Keep studying and stay in the struggle!
4 to 5 wrong: Danger! Deviations possible. Study and then study some more lest you drift into the marsh of opportunism!