Hannah Sell is a member of the CWI International Secretariat. Around International Women’s Day the CWI web-site (http://www.socialistworld.net/) has articles of campaigns and new from around the world. When the twenty first century dawned young women in the US and much of Europe were being told that equality was within their grasp. They didn’t need […]
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Eleanor Donne is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). It is 100 years since the first women in the UK won the right to vote in parliamentary elections. It took years of struggle and the largest mobilisation of women in Britain’s history to achieve this partial victory. Today women worldwide […]
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Housing Emergency Housing Emergency – Action Needed Stop Kinder Morgan Pipeline Fight for 15 Women Fight Back Indigenous Stolen Children Jean Swanson Campaign A Day in the Life of a BC Teacher Canada Today The Fentanyl Crisis … more from Canada and the world If you would like to order copy(ies) contact: [email protected]
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Peter Taaffe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). On 15 January 1919, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the finest brains of the German working class and its most heroic figures, were brutally murdered by the bloodthirsty, defeated German military, backed to the hilt by the cowardly social-democratic leaders Noske […]
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Katia Hancke is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland). The debate on abortion rights has moved on dramatically over the last five years. Just look at the discussions taking place even in as conservative an environment as the Oireachtas Committee on the 8th Amendment, dominated as it is by the anti-choice and […]
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Kelly Bellin is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Build a mass women’s movement Just a few months ago, detailed allegations of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment first broke into the mainstream media. Courageous actresses took a stand against a powerful figure within a multi-billion dollar industry that normalizes sexism. This has sparked a […]
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Ruth Coppinger is a member of Irish Parliament and the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland). In a landmark decision in Ireland, a special parliamentary committee has recommended unrestricted access to abortion up to 12 weeks – a measure that would cater for 92% of all abortions. A referendum to lift the 8th Amendment abortion […]
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Erin Brightwell is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Angelina Jolie. Gwyneth Paltrow. Lupita Nyong’o. Ashley Judd. Did any women who worked under Harvey Weinstein not get attacked? Many of the millions or possibly tens of millions of women posting #MeToo on social media, asked the same question; which of us hasn’t been […]
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Heather Rawling is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Women workers launched the Russian revolution in February 1917. And increasing numbers would join the Bolshevik Party in the course of that revolutionary year. HEATHER RAWLING writes about how they forced their way onto the historical stage, an inspirational example to […]
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Kailyn Nicholson is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia – if we take a broad view of the history and diversity of human societies, it’s obvious these forms of oppression are not inherent to all times and places. They arise and flourish under certain conditions, but not others. We […]
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