International Women's Day
Connecting women’s oppression, capitalism, and wars
The danger capitalism presents to women’s lives shows dramatically in the larger world, especially as capitalism’s wars and economic sanctions aggravate the toll of economic deprivation.
Working class women and the struggle for women’s equality
International Women's Day owes its existence to working-class and socialist women. The experience of women steelworkers shows the role unions can play in the fight for equality.
Ina Wood, Oklahoma Communist behind the ‘Union Maid’ song
This article originally appeared in People's World. During my research for an upcoming article on Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger’s creative friendship, which preceded the years depicted in the...
The origins of International Women’s Day
This article originally appeared in Morning Star. Within the last twenty years, many thousands of women worldwide have begun to celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD). However, the way in...
For male comrades on International Women’s Day
It is in the interests of the whole working class to fight for women's equality. Men must be active in this struggle, and share in types of work often left...