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Women
Belgium: 1,000s demonstrate against racism and sexism
First International Women's Day demonstration in decades
Geert Cool, LSP/MAS, Brussels, Monday 17 March 2008
International women's day: Fight for a woman's right to choose
Only socialism can give women the right to choose when and whether to have children.
Sarah Sachs-Eldridge, Socialist Party, cwi in England and Wales, Sunday 9 March 2008
International Women's Day 2008
Sweden's right-wing government attacks women
Neo-liberal policies want to turn back the clock
Karin Wallmark, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden)
International Women´s Day: Austria - Privatisation and social cuts affect women most
Fight the poverty trap!
Sonja Grusch, Sozialistische LinksPartei (CWI in Austria), Wednesday 5 March 2008
International Women’s Day: Mark the inspirational struggle of women
Reclaim the day and its real significance
Eleanor Donne, Socialist Party, cwi England and Wales, Tuesday 4 March 2008
Belgium: Building links of solidarity with Iranian women’s struggle
March 8th International Women’s Day demonstration in Brussels
Anja Deschoemacker, LSP/MAS, Belgian section of the CWI, Tuesday 4 March 2008
International Women's Day 2008: 'Pro-choice. Pro-socialism.'
New CWI pamphlet on the fight for abortion rights.
socialistworld.net, Sunday 2 March 2008
women: Marking International Women's Day
Commemorating the struggles of women workers worldwide against low pay and exploitation
The Socialist, Saturday 10 March 2007
women: Kurdish women in Syria have a hard fight
Kurdish women, who are oppressed inside their community in Syria, are facing two kinds of oppression.
Guleperi Biro, Friday 9 March 2007
women: Nigeria - Women’s burdens demand socialist action
Agitate for equal opportunities, free health care, education and provision of useful employment.
Titi Salaam- Ogunniran, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI, Nigeria), Thursday 8 March 2007
women: International Women’s Day 2007 - Pakistani women suffer untold misery and new law gives no protection
Fighting programme of socialist change vital
Rukhsana Manzoor, Socialist Movement Pakistan, Lahore, Tuesday 6 March 2007
Women: Women in India bear brunt of widening wealth gap
The fundamental emancipation of women lies in the achievement of a classless society.
Nirmala Shetty, New Socialist Alternative (CWI, India), Monday 5 March 2007
International Women’s Day: Brazil - Violence towards women - a public issue at last!
Vigorous campaign for refuges needed.
Jane Barros, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI), Friday 2 March 2007
International Women’s Day: Europe - Men’s violence against women
Almost one in every two women in Europe will be subjected to some form of violence.
Katja Raetz, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI, Sweden), Thursday 1 March 2007
International Women’s Day: Sweden - No to the right wing government’s maid system
For improved provision of childcare and care of the elderly
Karin Wallmark, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden), Thursday 1 March 2007
Women: International Women’s Day 2005: Make poverty and inequality history
Fight the system of poverty and inequality. Fight capitalism!
cwi statement, 2 March 2005
Women: Eating disorders
Symptoms of a sick culture
Jessica Johnston, Socialist Alternative, US, 17 October 2004
Women: Hands off!
Bush attacks women’s right to choose
Erika Blechinger, Socialist Alternative, US, 13 March 2004
Women: What socialism would mean for women
The situation facing women in Britain today
Eleanor Donne, Socialist Party, 7 March 2004
Women: Why socialists should oppose the ban of the hijab
Will the banning of headscarves contribute to the emancipation of women?
cwi Statement, London, 5 March 2004, 6 March 2004
International women’s day 2004: Women against war and capitalism
Step up the struggle for socialism. pdf version also available.
cwi statement, 3 March 2004
Women: Reclaiming feminism?
Over the last 20 years the women's movement has fragmented
Two articles from The Socialist, 3 August 2003
International women's day: No to war, fight for women's rights and socialism
To celebrate International Women's Day (8 March), the cwi is organising a speaking tour of England and Wales by Titi Rasheed of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) in Nigeria.
cwi online, 8 March 2003
International Women's Day: Women demand an end to war and exploitation.
International Women's Day, 8 March, is commemorated this year on the eve of war.
cwi statement, 2 March 2003
For socialism and women's liberation: Alexandra Kollantai
As a new generation of women in the anti-war and anti-capitalist movements celebrate International Women's Day (8th March), Chrisitne Thomas looks back at the life and ideas of the Russian revolutionary, Alexandra Kollantai, a pioneer of the struggle for socialism and women's liberation.
cwi online, 2 March 2003
"No" really does mean no
THE TRIAL of top snooker player Quinten Hann for rape, highlighted all the prejudices, backward attitudes and myths which still surround this issue.
Christine Thomas, 19 July 2002. This article first appeared in The Socialist.
International Women's Day 2002
March 8, International Women's Day, this year should be celebrated to the sound of the cacerolazo - empty pans and lids being clashed noisily together. It is the sound of protest in Argentina - especially of Argentinian women - expressing anger against empty stomachs and no trust in those at the top.
CWI Women's Day Statement, 1 March 2002
Women of the world: step up the fight for socialism
The Committee for a Workers' International - with parties, sections and members in 35 countries in all five continents - greets the working women of the world for International Women's Day, 2001. Since the end of the 19th Century, March 8 has been the day on which to commemorate the struggles, the victories, the heroine leaders and the martyrs who have fought to better the lot of women in society.
World March of Women 2000: Against Capitalism which breeds poverty and violence! For a Socialist World!
The 'World March of Women' is a cry for justice on the part of half the world's population. On International Women's Day - March 8 - this year, demonstrations were held in more than 50 countries in every continent.
CWI leaflet, 14 October 2000
New Century: New struggles. Women and the fight for a socialist alternative
Working women around the world have a right to expect a new century, especially a new millennium, to bring them a better deal in life. After all, the 20th century saw unimagined strides forward in science, medicine and technology and even in attitudes towards women in society.
International Women's Day 2000
Articles from Around the World
Included here are ten articles commissioned by the Committee for a Workers' International for use on and around March 8th - International Women's Day. They have been circulated to the sections and groups of of the CWI in all five continents of the world to be used in their publications, in leaflets and at meetings or events being held around that time. We hope you will find the material informative, inspiring and useful for discussion with people around you - especially, of course, working class women and young women in the schools, colleges etc. Everyone is welcome to send us their comments and ask for more information about our work.
Women fight the system
The Committee for a Workers' International commemorates International Women's Day 1999 - Monday 8th of March - by calling on all socialists and class fighters to help restore the true significance of this day in the calendar of the workers' movement. It is a day for remembering that women constitute half the world's population but carry much more than half the burdens of everyday life. Now, as the world economy enters recession, it is working women of town and country who suffer disproportionately.
International Women's Day 1999
Women Workers of the World: Fight for a Socialist Future.
It is more than 140 years since, in New York on March 8th 1857, the first mass demonstration of women workers took place in revolt against abysmal pay and working conditions. It is 150 years since, on the eve of revolution spreading across Europe, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published their famous indictment of capitalism - the Communist Manifesto. How far has the lot of half the world's population been bettered since then and how far is there still to go?
International Women's Day 1998
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