This is a statement by ISA’ International Women’s Bureau. Women among those bearing the worst effects The covid-19 crisis has hit the world hard. Health care workers, whose voices were never heard when they screamed for more staff and resources in movements and strikes all over the world in the last years, are now society’s […]
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1,200 hotel workers in UNITE HERE Local 40 won dignity and job security in a battle against global corporations that rule the most luxurious hotels in downtown Vancouver. The two-month strike, the longest in the city’s hotel industry, demonstrated the power of unions when they have determination to win and a fighting strategy. The workers, […]
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All over the world women are fighting back against violence, discrimination and oppression. There is a growing awareness that the capitalist system feeds and creates oppression. We must rise from below and support each other’s struggles in all countries. In the footsteps of the socialist pioneer Rosa Luxemburg and the resistance hero Rosa Parks we, […]
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Fifty years ago, Canadian women joined an uprising of women around the world. Feminists were active in a range of issues: mobilization against the Vietnam War, nuclear disarmament, employment equality, birth control, abortion rights and ending violence against women. This second wave of feminism spanned 1960 to 1985. There were hard-fought victories for birth control […]
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Ginger Jentzen is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Review of Little Women (2019) — Directed by Greta Gerwig Greta Gerwig’s new adaptation of Little Women has struck a resounding chord with audiences, particularly young women. Why does this book continue to resonate with us one hundred and fifty years later, and what […]
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Climate Justice and Jobs Instability Rising Ontario Struggle Needed Where is Canada’s Women’s Movement? Hypocrisy to Indigenous Peoples No War on Iran 2019: A Year of Struggles Housing Victory … more from Canada and the World If you would like to order copy(ies) contact us at [email protected]
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This is a statement by the CWI Women’s Commission. “We are not silent. We are not scared. We are not obeying.” — Istanbul, Turkey — chants from protest against gender violence International Women’s Day 2019 in defiance of a state ban on the demonstration and police use of tear gas “My life is not your […]
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Anne Engelhardt is a member of Sozialistische Alternative (ISA in Germany). At the IEC meeting from 12 to 16 August, comrades from 25 different countries examined the origins and impact of the women’s movements around the world, and its connection to changes in the working class and its movement, in a lively session on socialist […]
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Climate Change and Jobs New Politics Needed Socialist Youth China from Tienanmen 1989 to Hong Kong 2019 Indigenous Women Socialist Campaigns in US Sudan’s Revolution End Sexual Violence at Work … more from Canada and the world If you would like to order copy(ies) contact: [email protected]
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John Hird is a member of CWI Basque country. An important victory for the mass feminist movement In an important victory for the mass feminist movement, the Spanish supreme court has increased the convictions in the Pamplona ‘Wolf Pack’ case to 15 years imprisonment for the five guilty men. It also ruled that the 18 […]
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