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IWD 2023: Working class women and a political programme to overcome oppression 

March 7, 2023 Heather Rawling, CWI 

Women around the world will be marking International Women’s Day in a variety of ways. Protest demonstrations can be expected in many countries against the oppression that women face, not least in Iran, where anti-government […]

Women's Struggle

The roots of women’s oppression

December 3, 2022 Christine Thomas

Sozialistische Organisation Solidaritaet, the German section of the CWI, is publishing a new edition of the influential book, The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner, first printed in 1986. Below is the introduction to the […]

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Socialist students mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

November 26, 2022 Socialist Students’ (England & Wales) leaflet text

Below, we publish the text of a Socialist Students’ (England & Wales) leaflet for ‘International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women’ on 25 November. socialistworld.net A recent National Union of Students (NUS) study […]

Britain

Cost-of-living crisis: Women at the sharp end

October 11, 2022 Bea Gardner, Enfield and Lea Valley Socialist Party

How will we afford to keep the heating on? This is a question facing thousands of working-class households this winter, even after the British Tory government’s colossal energy bosses bailout, writes Bea Gardner. The poorer […]

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What strategy is needed in the struggle to end violence against women, sexism and oppression?

March 8, 2022 Christine Thomas, from Socialism Today, March 2022 (CWI England & Wales)

CHRISTINE THOMAS reviews two recent books by authors coming from different feminist perspectives and asks: what strategy is needed in the struggle to end violence against women, sexism and oppression in the new era? One […]

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International Womens Day – Women’s struggles in a time of covid, war and capitalist crisis

March 7, 2022 Clare Doyle, CWI

The Committee for a Workers’ International extends heartfelt greetings to working and poor women of all countries on the Day of International Working Women’s Solidarity. This special day in the calendar of socialists, established by […]

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End sexism and violence against women

November 27, 2021 Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) leaflet text

25 November was International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Below we print extracts of a leaflet the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) produced for campaigning on the issue of gender violence […]

IWD 2021

India: The crucial role of women in recent class struggles

March 16, 2021 Rashme Madhavan, New Socialist Alternative (CWI India)

In the last of our series of articles on women’s struggles from across the world to mark International Women’s Day, Rashme Madhavan reports from India. socialistworld.net On the 8th of March, the capitalist media and […]

Argentina

Argentina: The struggle that won abortion rights

March 12, 2021 Patricio Guzmán, Socialismo Revolucionario (CWI in Chile)

On December 30, 2020, the Argentine Senate voted in favour of a law legalizing free abortion previously approved in the Chamber of Deputies. The approval was resolved with 38 votes in favour, 29 against and […]

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Women and covid in Tory-run Britain

March 11, 2021 Elaine Brunskill, Socialist Party (England and Wales), CWI

On International Women’s Day socialists salute the struggles undertaken by working-class women, both past and present, we also prepare for future struggles. We salute the 1917 heroic struggle of women textile strikers from the working-class […]

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