Women and austerity
Women are being hard hit by the austerity offensive. In this video of her talk at a London Socialist Resistance forum economist Susan Pashkoff examines the details.
-
-
International Women’s Day: A History
International Women’s Day (8 March) was originally a socialist holiday established in 1911 by the Socialist International and is celebrated by women’s groups around the world write Peg Rapp and Susan Pashkoff. In many countries, it is a national holiday [...]
-
Join the London Pro Choice Counter Picket!
Defend a Women’s Right to choose! The British Pregnancy Advisory Service in Bedford Square is currently being picketed by an anti abortion group called 40 Days for Life. On their website, 40 Days for Life claim that the purpose of [...]
-
IWD – Act against the cuts
North Terrace, Trafalgar Square 5-7 PM Come along to Trafalgar Square on March 8th to celebrate International Women’s Day and protest against the outrageous attacks on all areas of public services by the ConDem Government and highlight the disproportionate impact [...]
-
Celebrate International Women’s Day
Listen to women from across the world – sign up against REDD *Radio program Voz de los Movimientos – Special issue on the 8th of March 2011 (duration: 24’04s). It includes reports from women in El Salvador, Guatemala and other [...]
-
Women on the frontline
Terry Conway spoke at a recent Birmingham SR Forum on the impact of cuts on women; the video is at the bottom of this post. The Condems are attempting to impose cuts on working class people as part of their [...]
-
Women’s Liberation & Socialist Revolution
Women’s Liberation & Socialist Revolution from Socialist Resistance is co-published with the IIRE’s Notebooks for Study and Research. Its subtitle, Documents of the Fourth International, places it in our “documents and debates” series, which aims to collect documents and articles around [...]
-
Women and Socialism: Learning from History
The coming decade of austerity will hit the oppressed hardest including women, especially working women. As the resistance to austerity cuts develops, the question of how oppressed groups in society can fight against their oppression, and on what basis, could [...]
-
Why we celebrate International Women’s Day
To mark International Women’s Day 2010, we reproduce Alexandra Kollontai’s classic history and explanation of this important anniversary. Thanks to the Marxist Internet Archive (MIA) for making this and other writings by Kollontai available.
-
Manifesto for 21st Century Feminism launches
The meeting on ‘Feminism Today’ with Nina Power and Lindsey German at Housmans’ bookshop (Saturday, March 6, to celebrate International Women’s Day) attracted a hundred strong audience of women, especially young women and a few men. It was a stimulating [...]
