by ADRIENNE CORRADINI & ZOE LAVERGNE
Resistance supports the fight for equal marriage rights for Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) people.
Resistance believes that the capitalist system has a vested interest in preventing people from uniting, and in continuing to repress queers. This oppression takes many forms, and includes laws that discriminate against LGBTIQ people.
It is incredible that queer people in Australia still do not have the right to get married. This injustice has broad consequences for the whole LGBTIQ community.
Historically, discrimination against queers has suited the needs of the capitalist system.
The traditional family structure of a father, a mother and their children — with the father at the head of the family — has been a key way of reinforcing class divisions.
It encourages the rich to pass their wealth on to their children, while the poor and their descendants tend to remain poor.
The conventional nuclear family model, which assumes that domestic work is a woman’s responsibility, also entrenches women’s oppression.
Women’s unpaid labour in the home is a very important part of the capitalist economy.
In 1990, the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated that women’s unpaid work in the home was equivalent to 83% of gross domestic product.
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