The CPUSA.org website collective is seeking articles to publish in recognition of Women’s History Month. We invite comrades and friends contributors to consider writing on a relevant subject or issue, pointing out its importance to the struggles of our working class and people as a whole. The article does not need to be long or comprehensive.

Below is a list of suggested topics developed by the party’s Women’s Collective which one might consider writing on. The list is not meant to be exhaustive, however. You can feel free to come up with your own idea of what contribution you would like to make in recognition of Women’s History Month. We encourage you to build on your knowledge about the history of struggles, on your local communities, and your own fights to expand these ideas.

Thank you very much for your consideration.

Articles can be pitched and contributions sent to editors@cpusa.org. Suggested topics below:

War and peace

• Palestine during the “ceasefire”
  • On the work of return
  • Restoration of homes and communities
  • Ongoing bombing and trauma
  • Birth and postpartum after the destruction of hospitals
• Afghanistan after the return of the Taliban and closing of U.S. military bases
  • Girls and education
  • Women and work
  • Life conditions
  • Resistance movements in Afghanistan and in the Afghan diaspora
• Conflict minerals and imperialist-fueled wars — gender implications of war and alternative uses of resource wealth for social reproduction
  • Cobalt and D.R. Congo
  • Uranium and the refusal of French imperialism in Niger and Burkino Faso
  • Lithium and Peru
  • Rare earth minerals and China

Reproductive rights and bodily autonomy

• Effects of Dobbs, almost two years after the decision
  • Story of milfepristone and misoprostol availability by mail, i.e. the abortion pill
    • Book review: Abortion Pills: US History and Politics (2024) by Carrie Baker
  • RFK Jr. as Health Secretary — his agenda for public health with a focus on women and trans youth and adults
  • Proposed cuts of $1 trillion to Medicaid and SNAP benefits in latest budget, an analysis of who is targeted with these cuts
  • Interview with Jessica Valenti about abortion access and pre- and post-natal health in states today

Voter suppression and the fight for civil rights

• Spotlight key figures in the fight against voter suppression from the civil rights movement. For example: Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, Charlene Mitchell, Septima Clark, Louise Patterson, Dorothy Burnham
• Spotlight key women today in the fight for immigrant rights and for voting rights. For example: Stacey Abrams, Jasmine Crockett, Rashid Tlaib, Ilhan Omar

Service industry and the fight for unions

• Analysis of the feminized work of the service industry, the history of unionization, the women who led the fight, the women of CLUW and their role in organizing the so-called “unorganizable” workers in some service industries. For example: domestic work, in-home nursing care, piece workers in the garment industry, etc.
• A story on the cluster of stores unionized in Western MA, beginning with Barnes & Nobel and including Trader Joes and Starbucks stores
• A gender, race, and immigration status analysis of minimum wage jobs in the food industry, and why they are on the cutting edge of union campaigns today
• Unionization and in-home health workers and hospitals
• Agricultural workers and new laws to restrict unionization
• Child labor laws around the country in the food processing plants

Fighting fascism

• Migrant sex workers’ movement
  • Book review: Not Your Rescue Project: Sex Workers Fighting for Justice (2025) by Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam. See this book review.
• Coalitional struggles emerging today against the government shutdown, erosion of reproductive rights, threats of mass deportation of immigrants, the erosion of courts and legal power in the current moment

Ideological role of male supremacy and white supremacy today

• Andrew Tate returning to the U.S. from Romania
• Online luring of young men into MAGA ideologies of “traditional” gender roles
• Analysis of why these right-wing, misogynist propaganda movements are central to the MAGA strategy

Environmental justice, clean water, clean air, sustainable resource use

• Food justice movements and urban farming movements across the U.S.: leadership by working-class women of color
• Current state of the Kyoto Protocol and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Socialism and its Answers

• Reprint and discuss Clara Colon’s 1970’s article on women in socialism today. What are the questions emerging from socialist movements today in the U.S. and around the world?
• Cuba and the Family Code: What does it mean for women’s lives?
• Vietnam and women workers in the global commodity chain

Image: Clean Dream Act Now! by United We Dream (unitedwedream.org)

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