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  Women's Struggle

  India: Mass fightback needed against huge level of violence and discrimination against women

  March 5, 2018 New Socialist Alternative (CWI, India)

  India’s leaders have always boasted of the country being characterised by ‘unity in diversity’ and women are supposed to have been worshipped from time immemorial. The dominant Hindutva philosophy is based on the highly controversial [...]

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  ARCHIVE | the Socialist Party was the CWI section in the Republic of Ireland until 2019

  International Women’s Day Ireland 2018: Repeal and Abortion Rights – a defining struggle

  March 5, 2018 Laura Fitzgerald, Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland)

  International Women’s Day 2018 will be dominated by the issue of abortion on the island of Ireland, with particular focus on the South where years of agitation and mobilisation has succeeded in winning the right [...]

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  Nigeria

  Nigeria: Women’s oppression under patriarchy and capitalism

  March 3, 2018 Women’s Committee, Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI Nigeria)

  We women in Nigeria live in utter privation. We still face oppression of various kinds both at home, work, schools and in society – such as the refusal to legalize abortion (abortion rights), divorce rights, [...]

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  ARCHIVE | ChinaWorker.info was the CWI section in China, Honk Kong and Taiwan until 2019

  China: Xi Jinping plans to extend his rule

  March 3, 2018 chinaworker.info reporters

  The news from Beijing is historic – nothing less than a political earthquake with repercussions around the world. At its upcoming “parliamentary session” (the National People’s Congress, NPC, which starts next week), China will remove the [...]

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  Denmark

  Right wing Danish government plans “twice as hard” punishment for poor

  March 2, 2018 Per Olsson, from Offensiv (weekly paper of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI Sweden)).

  The Danish right-wing government wants crimes committed in poor housing areas, which the government contemptuously denotes as “ghettos”, to be punished twice as hard as elsewhere. The proposal is part of a battery of actions [...]