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Archive
Struggles
Women's Equality
Equal rights for women. Equal pay for equal work. Protect reproductive rights. End sexism.
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by Roberto Botello, 03/14/2008 09:15
Emma Tenayuca was a resident and radical militant of San Antonio’s working class west side. Her political formation was shaped, if not heavily influenced, by her early exposure to frequent political rallies and fiery speeches which took place at the Plaza del Zacate with the backdrop of the Great Depression and the early years of nearby Mexico’s revolutionary government.
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by Carolyn Trowbridge, Chair CPUSA Women's Equality Commission, 03/07/2008 13:59
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Working women and men mourn the lost lives at the tragic - and avoidable - Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
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The Women’s Equality Commission of the CPUSA extends warmest greetings to the women and girls of the world on International Women’s Day 2008.
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by CPUSA Labor Commission, 03/03/2008 13:46
In This Newsletter:
- Ward Connerly is back and up to no good
- Action Alerts
- March 6 Global Day of Action
- AFL-CIO, U.K. Unions Join Forces Against Union-Busters
- Indianapolis Janitors finally at the bargaining table
- Teamsters add 5,600 new members
- Update: Manufacturing Think Tank
- Election 08 update
- Union Jobs (still more needed!)
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by CPUSA, 03/03/2008 13:39
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn delivering a speech (1913).
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In 1942 Flynn ran for Congress at large in New York and received 50,000 votes. Her program was geared especially toward women, millions of whom had been drawn into factories and offices during the war. She believed that African American women were the most discriminated against, super- exploited workers in spite of the Fair Employment Protection Act. The Ford Motor Co. would not even accept applications from African American women until militant demonstrations forced an end to this discrimination.
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by CPUSA, 03/03/2008 13:31
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The triangle shirt waist fire sparked a world-wide movement for women's rights
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The CPUSA proudly celebrates Women's History Month. We will be highlighting the progressive role woman have played in the world as well as the oppression women have faced through a series of articles and videos throughout the month of March.
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by CPUSA National Board, 04/12/2007 18:46
Statement of National Board of the Communist Party USA
Prepared by Jarvis Tyner, Executive Vice Chair
The crude racist/sexist remarks of radio talk show host Don Imus have ignited a firestorm of anti-racist protest from people of all races and nationalities all over the country. This protest has resulted in the show losing several sponsors and MSNBC dropping Imus’s show. CBS radio, after much hesitation, finally decided to drop Imus’s show—which generated $50 million in advertising revenues annually.
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by Jarvis Tyner, Executive Vice Chair, 01/08/2003 10:56
We are living through a very dangerous period. The Bush Administration and most Republicans in Congress are using the events of September 11th to push their reactionary agenda: imperialist aggression abroad, racism and austerity at home. We are in the middle of a deepening economic crisis made worse by the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, the great corporate scandals of 2002, and the right-wing policies of the Bush Administration.
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by Dee Myles, 07/07/2001 00:00
Our goal in this brief report is to lay
bare the relationship between the fight for women's equality and the struggle
of the working class, to highlight why the ultra right targets women, and, lastly, to challenge the Party to recast its understanding of the new reality of the importance of the Woman Question in light of the significant emergence of women as members of the paid work force as well as unpaid caregivers to and caretakers of working-class families.
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by Doris Marquit, 03/24/2001 00:00
When our topic is "women and socialism," should we speak about the past or the future? We Communists look to the future-socialism. And we have theory (Marxism) as well as our own experiences in political work, to draw on as we plan and one day bring about our socialism, our own socialist society.
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by Elena Mora, National Organization Secretary, 03/24/2001 00:00
To bear or not bear children - to control one's own fertility, one's physical self - is a basic and profoundly important human right. 40 percent of the world's three billion or so women live in countries that to one degree or another usurp that control or deny that right. And of course in our own country, a sharp struggle is raging over that right.
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by Dee Myles, 03/24/2001 00:00
We want to very briefly review the foundation from
which we start by considering the ideas of Marx, Engels, and Lenin on
the question of women’s equality. We want to take a look at the most
current statistical data available on working class
and poor women in the United States today. We want to take a brief look
at the work of the party the in the area of women. We want to discuss
immediate improvements we can consider to make our Party more of political
home for women in general and working class and poor women in particular.
And finally we want to explore future possibilities related to this process
of retooling ourselves so we can make an even
better and stronger contribution to the fight for women’s rights
and equality in the context of today’s fight against the ultra right.
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by Anita Wheeler, 03/24/2001 00:00
Young women have been victimized on a number of fronts. With the new Bush administration and the right wing controlling a majority of seats in Washington and the economic crisis plowing full steam ahead the attacks on equal pay for equal work, reproductive rights, violence against women, welfare reinstatement, access to public education, and criminalization are among the other issues we're going to have to address.
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by Sam Webb, National Chair, 03/24/2001 00:00
[The Women's Equality Conference's] genesis is explained by the indisputable fact that tens of millions of women are found in every - or nearly every - arena of political, economic, and social life. Its genesis is explained by the indisputable fact that the role of women in social movements has grown enormously compared with only a few decades ago. Women are agents of progressive change.
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by Carolyn Trowbridge, 03/24/2001 00:00
What does it mean to be a homeless woman? You are spun loose from safety, warmth, nurturance, laughter, those who hold your history and the dreams of your future. Homelessness: where you, and more than likely your children, are vulnerable to every threat of hunger, violence, exploitation, and separation. Homelessness is a topic that has, in the political arena and in the popular culture, disappeared from conversation and struggle.
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by Gail Ryall, 03/24/2001 00:00
The Coalition of Labor Union Women is the only national organization for union women. It is a "constituency group" of the AFL-CIO, with 20,000 members from 60 unions, organized into 75 chapters nationwide. CLUW "strives to make organized labor and the public more sensitive to the needs of working women and their families."
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by Dee Myles, 03/23/2001 00:00
More Women's Equality
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by Joelle Fishman, Chair, Political Action Committee, CPUSA, 03/23/2001 00:00
Many children in poverty live in single parent, female head-of-household families. In our state most of the 35,000 put off welfare now have an even more difficult economic and family situation. Most new jobs are low-wage, non-union service jobs, often temporary and part-time. The impact of the Bush administration policies plus new cuts in the safety net in Connecticut are leaving many families stranded.
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