Oppression

International Women’s Day – 8 March – commemorates the struggles of women workers worldwide against low pay and exploitation.

The United Nations Human Development Report of 2006 places Nigeria at 151 out of 177 nation-states rated basically in terms of life expectancy, educational attainment, income, seats in parliament held by women, female professional and […]

In the 1920s women workers were only paid about half of what male workers earned.

Fighting programme of socialist change vital

The fundamental emancipation of women lies in the achievement of a classless society.

The fundamental emancipation of women lies in the achievement of a classless society.

To mark International Women’s Day (8 March) this year, the Committee for a Workers’ International is publishing a collection of nine articles contributed by members of our sections across the globe.

International Women’s Day will be celebrated on 8th March in Pakistan and other countries with large Muslim populations in a situation where Islamic religious parties and groups are still agitating against the blasphemous cartoons printed […]

The 2006 budget drawn up by Trevor Manual, the finance minister, has been lauded by the media and by the capitalists’ ‘advisers’ throughout the country.

A group of around forty women have been leading a struggle for jobs and pay at the Selfex factory in the south east of Caracas for several weeks.

For over a year the German service trade union Ver.di has been attempting through a campaign to set up workers’ councils (Betriebsraete) in the retail chain, Lidl in order to improve conditions of employment.

We are constantly told by the mainstream media that girls are outperforming boys at school and that young women now have more opportunities and choice than women of previous generations.

Have you ever thought what your mother’s life was like, or your grandmother’s?

Compiled from United Nations and other reports

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THE 21ST Century belongs to women. That’s what many pundits were saying in the run up to the year 2000. Much is made of the fact that there are marginally more women at work now […]

Will the banning of headscarves contribute to the emancipation of women?

The day of international working women’s solidarity – 8 March – is celebrated this year just days before the first anniversary of imperialism’s attack on Iraq.

QUITE A few newspaper column inches were given over to the Future Foundation study ’Talking Equality’, published by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC). I’m not sure how much credence we should give to a study […]

NIGERIA IS a neo-colonial country under the shackles of imperialism and its multinational agents. Women in Nigeria are marginalised and oppressed, as are women in capitalist society generally. Women are doubly oppressed, first as workers […]

International Women’s Day, 8 March, is commemorated this year on the eve of war. Such a horrific prospect brings into sharp relief all that is rotten in today’s world. But it must not prevent us […]

Alexandra Kollantai is probably the best-known woman among Russian revolutionaries, the first woman elected as a full member of the Bolshevik central committee and the first female commissar (minister) elected after the October 1917 revolution.

THE TRIAL of top snooker player Quinten Hann for rape, highlighted all the prejudices, backward attitudes and myths which still surround this issue.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]