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  Women: International Women’s day – Japan

  March 3, 1999 Nahoko Isu, CWI Japan

  Company unions and harmonious labour-management relations? Japanese culture is different and Japanese women are obedient? That is not at all what Japan is about. There are working women with some guts!

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  Women: International Women’s day – Portugal

  March 3, 1999 Torge, Colectivo "Luta Socialista", CWI Portugal

  Much has changed since the revolution of 25th of April 25 years ago. Working class women gained through the revolutionary process very advanced constitutional rights by comparison with the rest of Europe. Before 1974 women [...]

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  Women: International Women’s day – Sweden

  March 3, 1999 Carolin Evander, Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna, CWI Sweden

  A report has come out with shocking figures. 47% of girls in the nine-year compulsory schools are sexually harassed. The climate against young women has become harder in society and has reached the schools in [...]

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  Women: International Women’s day – Sri Lanka

  March 3, 1999 Dhamika de Silva and Srinath Perera, United Socialist Party

  Women constitute half the population of Sri Lanka and play a crucial role in the affairs of the country. On the one hand, both the president and the prime minister are women and the world’s [...]

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  Women: International Women’s day – US

  March 3, 1999 Martha Root, (Service Employees International Union Local 285), Labor Militant

  An indication of coming struggles recently manifested itself in a strike at two nursing homes in Massachusetts. Significantly, as a result of it, wages were increased more than ever before. (There was a stipulation that [...]