Category: Women

International Women’s Day 2012 Remembering the struggles & victories of women workers For more than a century, 8 March has been the day to commemorate and celebrate the fight of working class and revolutionary women for a better deal and a socialist society. Clare Doyle, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) Its origins are in the struggles for equal pay

International Women’s Day: Capitalism has continued to worsen the situation of Women Join the struggle for a socialist alternative By Seun Ogunniyi

Women and socialism : a century of struggle Hundredth anniversary of International Women’s Day Elin Gauffin, CWI Sweden At its very beginning, in the early 20th century, International Women’s Day – the 8th of March – was a day of struggle for working women. Nowadays it has largely been hijacked by the capitalist establishment as a ceremonial and sometimes highly

Nigeria – Women’s burdens demand socialist action 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 technical workers, ratio of estimated female to male earned income, female economic activities rate, population without sustainable access