Latest Posts

• 

  Pakistan

  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 [...]

• 

  Pakistan

  Women: International Women’s day – Britain

  March 3, 1999 Chris Thomas, Socialist Party

  Eighty percent of low paid workers in Britain are women. They are the cleaners, cooks and hairdressers forced to work in poor conditions with no legal minimum wage. In the public sector, low pay is [...]

• 

  Women's Struggle

  Women: International Women’s Day – Women fight the system

  March 3, 1999 Committee for a Workers’ International statement

  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 [...]

• 

  Kurdistan

  Women: Kurdistan – CWI campaigns around the world

  March 3, 1999 Reports compiled by CWI online

  International Women’s Day. cwi Kurdistan campaign.

• 

  Nigeria

  Nigeria: A democratic future?

  March 3, 1999 James Long, CWI

  The recent Nigerian Presidential election was widely reported in the world’s media as an important step towards the restoration of "democracy" in that country, Africa’s largest with a population of around 120 million. The holding, [...]