Comment & Analysis
A Socialist Approach to the Emancipation of Women
By Sheri Hamilton The struggle against Gender Based Violence Women’s month drew to a close after the month-long ritual of [click to read more]
Women’s Struggle
Women's Struggle
International Women’s Day 2023
Women around the world will be marking International Women’s Day in a variety of ways. Protest demonstrations can be expected in many countries against the oppression that women face. [click to read more]
Women's Struggle
IWD 2021 | Women’s Struggles in a time of Covid Crisis
There is no absence of struggles, even in the time of Covid, which display elements of revolution. Again and again working class women are at the forefront. [click to read more]
Women's Struggle
IWD 2021 | Women, Covid-19 and the Struggle Against Gender-Based Violence in South Africa
A campaign led by women trade unionists will fill the struggle against GBV with the class content it lacked in the pre-pandemic protests. A conscious turn must be made to that layer of women workers already in the forefront of struggle. [click to read more]
Women's Struggle
International Women’s Day and the Struggle Against Oppression
Women’s oppression is not new. It is as old as history and the division of society into classes. It takes many forms and so does the fight against it. It is significant that women who feel the urgent need for change have been to the fore in all the recent uprisings against dictatorial rule and for genuine democracy – be they in Algeria, Hong Kong, Chile or Lebanon. [click to read more]
Trade Union
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN – How should organised workers respond?
A mass working class movement can lay the real social foundations upon which gender equality can be built. The struggle for women’s liberation needs to be re-written on the banner of the workers movement. [click to read more]