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21/05/2013: Anti-racist campaign needed against corrupt ruling elites and capitalism
21/05/2013: An expressway to attacks on democratic rights! For democratic mass
working peoples’ defence committees!
20/05/2013: This year’s G8 summit will be held in County Fermanagh, Northern
Ireland, on 17th – 18th June. This gathering brings together the heads
of government of eight of the world’s largest capitalist economies to
discuss how they can further the interests of those they represent – the
super-rich, big business and the bankers.
19/05/2013: Increasing concerns and contradictions
18/05/2013: Workers and Socialist Party calls for one-day-general strike
18/05/2013: Iran’s June 14 presidential election takes place against the background
of deep divisions in society and the regime.
17/05/2013: Australia’s federal environment minister Tony Burke gave the go ahead to
Toro’s $270 million uranium mining project in the Wiluna region of
Western Australia.
15/05/2013: Working class unity needed to defend rights and living standards
14/05/2013: We shouldn’t let either of the major parties tell us that ‘tough
decisions’ or ‘hard cuts’ are required.
13/05/2013: Bus workers take strike action over savage wage cuts and attacks on
conditions
12/05/2013: 15 DSM members arrested at May Day rallies
12/05/2013: How can a state be realised?
11/05/2013: The latest events that have happened in Italian politics mark a new
phase of development in the crisis in the third European industrial
power.
11/05/2013: On 8 May the PKK has begun to withdraw from Turkey. Millions are hoping
now for an end to oppression and for democratic rights.
10/05/2013: Ruling Barisan Nasional’s widespread fraud enrages opposition supporters
and young people
10/05/2013: On 2 May the neo-fascist Golden Dawn attempted to distribute food in
Syntagma square in Athens to people holding proof of Greek nationality.
10/05/2013: Time for a new mass workers’ party
09/05/2013: New clashes on the horizon
08/05/2013: Big landlords, capitalists and influential families are calling the shots
08/05/2013: The United Socialist Party’s May Day demonstration passed successfully
through a number of populous areas of Colombo, ending at Grand Pass
Junction.
07/05/2013: Union representatives declare a “half success” with a pay rise of 9.8
percent – but important issues are unresolved
06/05/2013: ’Get a job!’ is the constant refrain of privileged Tory ministers and
vicious right-wing tabloids. A million unemployed young people are the
subject of a relentless campaign of smears and lies.
05/05/2013: Great event remembers the ’47’ struggle
05/05/2013: Christine Thomas’ book outlines how inequalities and discrimination
against women have not disappeared and women’s struggles must be bound
up with wider class struggle to be successful. Read the complete book
online here.
04/05/2013: Those who created the crisis should be forced to pay.
03/05/2013: The last set of DSM members still in the detention of the state security
service (SSS) in Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria, and Ibadan Oyo state,
Southwest Nigeria, as of yesterday, has been released.
03/05/2013: Progressive Workers Federation (PWF), TURCP and SMP organised and
intervened in the May Day activities across the country
03/05/2013: It is said that where labour is cheap, life is cheap. This is never more
so than in the recent horrific deaths of over 400 garment workers
crushed in a collapsed building in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
03/05/2013: Li Ka-shing owns 13 percent of the world’s port capacity and much more
besides…
02/05/2013: ‘Defend pensions! Stop corruption!’
02/05/2013: Photos of May Day demonstration in Sindh
02/05/2013: DSM comrades arrested and detained
01/05/2013: CC rules budget illegal for second time, government declares war against
it
01/05/2013: The CWI sends revolutionary greetings and solidarity to workers, young
people and all those exploited by capitalism.
30/04/2013: Irish Presidency brought unprecedented levels of cuts to the EU budget.
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|  05/05/2013, Christine Thomas’ book outlines how inequalities and discrimination
against women have not disappeared and women’s struggles must be bound
up with wider class struggle to be successful. Read the complete book
online here.
Christine Thomas, Controcorrente
(CWI Italy)
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|  12/03/2013, Ruling establishments have long tried to ‘domesticate’ international
women’s day – to shed crocodile tears for the victims of gender
oppression
Liv Shange, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI South Africa)
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|  08/03/2013, Workers’ movement must take up their cause
Srinath Perera, United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka)
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|  08/03/2013, What is the way forward for women’s struggle for liberation?
Aysha Zaki, CWI
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|  07/03/2013, Beware the anger of women against the bosses’ system!
Clare Doyle, CWI
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|  01/01/2013, "This system’s mind-set perpetuates hatred against women and disregards
the fundamental right of women for freedom"
New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)
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|  05/12/2012, Following high profile cases such as those of Julian Assange and
Dominique Strauss Khan, there has been much debate recently about rape
and sexual assault. On the Slutwalks and other protests, anger on these
issues has been obvious.
Sarah Wrack, first published in "Socialism
Today, magazine of the Socialist
Party (CWI England and Wales)
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|  23/11/2012, About 50 people gathered in Bangalore to observe International Day of
action for Legal Abortion in Ireland
Jagadish G Chandra (New Socialist Alternative, CWI-India)
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|  22/11/2012, Pictures of protests from around the world against anti-abortion
legislation in Ireland
CWI
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|  22/11/2012, On 21 November, up to 30 MEPs from four political groups and many
different countries held a protest in front of the European Parliament
to demand abortion legislation in Ireland.
Paul Murphy, MEP, Socialist
Party (CWI Ireland)
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|  16/11/2012, International day of action for legal abortion
Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) and Paul Murphy MEP
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|  14/10/2012, A significant feature of the thousands strong march on 29 September in
Dublin to mark International Decriminalisation of Abortion Day was the
number of young people, especially young women.
Laura Fitzgerald, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland)
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|  29/09/2012, Mass outrage across the country as victim accused of ‘public immorality’
in police rape case
Statement by ‘Rape Is No Joke’ campaign
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|  28/09/2012, "No sexual abuse! No excuse! No domestic abuse! No excuse!" was one of
the chants on the lively and colourful Slutwalk London demonstration on
Saturday 22 September.
Helen Ridett, Lewisham Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)
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Further articles on 'Women':2011: - 02/12/2011: Pakistan: Women’s demonstration in Sindh
Socialistworld.net - 21/04/2011: France: Sarkozy instigates ban on veil to boost his political ratings
Judy Beishon, from the Socialist, paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales) - 10/03/2011: US: Women hit hardest by recession
Marty Harrison, Member, Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and
Allied Professionals, from socialistalternative.org - 09/03/2011: Italy: A million march against sexism
Christine Thomas, Controcorrente (CWI Italy) - 09/03/2011: Sri Lanka: War Heroes Were Needed, but War Widows Are Discarded
Dhammika de Silva (USP Central Committee Member) - 09/03/2011: India: One woman’s struggle against oppression
New Socialist Alternative (CWI India) - 09/03/2011: Britain: Women ‘Condem-ned’
Jane James, Socialist Party
(CWI England and Wales) - 09/03/2011: International Women’s Day: Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong
Siu Fei and Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info - 08/03/2011: Ireland: Laura Ashley struggle an inspiration
Laura Ashley shop steward and striker, Laura Waters, writes about her
experiences - 08/03/2011: Sweden: New network struggles against right-wing policies
Elin Gauffin, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden) - 08/03/2011: Women in Venezuela: Reforms under attack
Denise Dudley, Socialismo Revolucionario, (CIT/ CWI Venezuela) - 07/03/2011: Hong Kong: Women fight discrimination and social injustice
Socialist Action, CWI Hong Kong - 07/03/2011: China: Young women fight for a better life
Chinaworker.info - 07/03/2011: International Women’s Day 2011: Why we have to organise and fight back
Committee for a Worker’ International
2010: - 30/09/2010: The beauty industry: Out of control?
Becci Heagney, first published in the Socialist, paper of the Socialist
Party (CWI England & Wales) - 24/09/2010: Pakistan: Protesting nurses hold all-night vigil in Layyah
Rukhsana Manzoor, Finance Organiser TURCP - 24/09/2010: Women and the struggle against oppression
Interview - 18/09/2010: Women and Advertizing: Low Self-Esteem is Good for Profits
Genevieve Morse, USA, Shop Steward, Classified Staff Union / MTA
(personal capacity) - 01/09/2010: Reviews: Living Dolls - The Return of Sexism By Natasha Walter
CWI - 08/05/2010: Belgium: Government plans to ban the burqa
Anja Deschoemacker, LSP/PSL (CWI in Belgium) - 10/03/2010: Belgium: Attacks on jobs and wages threaten women’s gains
Anja Deschoemacker, national women’s organiser of PSL/LSP (CWI Belgium) - 09/03/2010: Women’s day 2010: The situation facing women in Britain
From "The Socialist", paper of the Socialist Party, CWI in England and
Wales - 08/03/2010: Asia: Women migrants face the brunt of capitalism’s crisis
- 08/03/2010: Women’s day 2010: Still fighting for equality
Eleanor Donne, Socialist Party England and Wales from March issue of
Socialism Today - 07/03/2010: Women’s day 2010: The history of International Women’s Day
Socialism Today - 03/03/2010: Women and socialism: China - Women’s struggle then and now
Elin Gauffin, CWI Sweden - 03/03/2010: Women and socialism: A century of struggle
Elin Gauffin, CWI Sweden
2009: 2008: 2007: - 10/03/2007: women: Marking International Women’s Day
The Socialist - 09/03/2007: women: Kurdish women in Syria have a hard fight
Guleperi Biro, Kurdish asylum-seeker in Cyprus - 08/03/2007: women: Nigeria - Women’s burdens demand socialist action
Titi Salaam-Ogunniran, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI, Nigeria) - 07/03/2007: International Women’s Day: Australia - The fight for equal pay continues!
Kylie McGregor, UNITE President and Socialist Party (CWI, Australia) - 06/03/2007: women: International Women’s Day 2007 - Pakistani women suffer untold
misery and new law gives no protection
Rukhsana Manzoor, Socialist Movement Pakistan, Lahore - 05/03/2007: Women: Women in India bear brunt of widening wealth gap
Nirmala Shetty, New Socialist Alternative (CWI, India) - 02/03/2007: Women: Brazil - Violence towards women - a public issue at last!
Jane Barros, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI) - 01/03/2007: women: International Women’s day - Sweden. No to the right wing
government’s maid system
Karin Wallmark, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden) - 01/03/2007: women: Europe - Men’s violence against women
Katja Raetz, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI, Sweden)
2006: - 08/03/2006: international women’s day 2006: Chinese women workers in revolt
Huang Xin - 05/03/2006: international women’s day: Women in India bear brunt of widening wealth
gap
Nirmala Shetty, New Socialist Alternative (CWI, India) - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006
Clare Doyle, CWI - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - Pakistan
Rukhsana Manzoor, Socialist Movement Pakistan - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - South Africa
Sheri Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - Venezuala
Elisabeth O’Hara, Socialist Party (England and Wales) - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - Germany
David Matrai, Berlin - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - Sweden
Elin Gauffin, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - Britain
Zena Awad, Socialist Party, England and Wales - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - Belgium
Marijke Descamps, LSP/MAS (CWI) Belgium - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - Australia
Anthony Maine, Socialist Party - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - USA
Margaret Collins, Socialist Alternative - 01/03/2006: women: international womens’ day 2006 - Hard facts
2005: 2004: 2003: 2002: 2001: 2000: 1999: - 11/05/1999: Nigeria: CWI section under serious attack
Clare Doyle, CWI Campaigns - 03/05/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Index
- 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Britain
Chris Thomas, Socialist Party - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - US
Martha Root, (Service Employees International Union Local 285), Labor
Militant - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Sri Lanka
Dhamika de Silva and Srinath Perera, United Socialist Party - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Sweden
Carolin Evander, Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna, CWI Sweden - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Portugal
Torge, Colectivo "Luta Socialista", CWI Portugal - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Japan
Nahoko Isu, CWI Japan - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - India
With Red Salute, Nirmala Shetti, (Dudiyora Hora’ta) - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Germany
Antje Zander, Socialistiche Alternative - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - CIS
Anna Shvedova, CWI-CIS - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s day - Brazil
Eliana Maciel, Socialismo Revolucionario, CWI Brazil - 03/03/1999: Women: International Women’s Day - Women fight the system
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