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International Women’s Day Statement
Canadians for Peace and Socialism
March 8th 2010
On
this International Women’s Day, the attack by the right-wing Harper Conservative
minority government on worker’s families, against women and young people and
children is resisted by the organized action of the left, labor, peace and
democratic movements of the people.
There is a growing recognition among all progressive forces, that
the struggle for the full emancipation of women from all forms of double
oppression, inequality and exploitation, for full economic independence, for an
end to all forms of violence against women is inseparable from the struggle of
the working class as a whole to end the system of wage slavery.
The struggle for women’s emancipation is unresolved. It has been
going on since the advent of class society. It continues today. All of the
advances in the struggle for women’s full equality have been achieved as a
result of the organized and united struggle of men and women together, in full
recognition of the fact, that when women are oppressed and denied their full
economic, political and social rights, all working people are diminished and
weakened in the struggle for a better life for all.
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Reinforce the struggles of
young women for full equality!
Young Communist League of Canada
March 2010.
The Young Communist League celebrates
International Women’s Day and calls on youth and
students, regardless of gender, to unite against the
Harper Conservative anti-women agenda. For around 100
years International Women’s Day (IWD) has been
celebrated across the globe. In many places, including
the socialist countries, it is celebrated as an official
holiday. IWD is a time to celebrate the heroic struggles
of women, including young women and girls, across the
planet throughout history for equality and freedom. It
is also a time to renew these struggles as they are
still needed so long as patriarchy and capitalism exist.
The Harper Conservative government
represents an immediate threat to the rights of women in
Canada. In 2008, the Tories proved their continued
opposition to women’s reproductive rights by introducing
the “unborn victims of crime act,” which would have
opened the door to further laws limiting or prohibiting
access to abortion. Young women need a pro-choice agenda
which provides education and access to both birth
control and abortion free and without harassment by
anti-choice forces. Harper has attacked women’s shelters
and advocacy groups with funding cuts which have
resulted in, among other things, 12 out of 16 regional
offices of Status of Women Canada being closed, and the
elimination the Court Challenges Program.
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World Federation of Trade Unions
2010 International Women’s Day Statement
The Secretariat WFTU
5 March 2010
The WFTU honours this year’s March 8th , a special historic anniversary. 100
years are completed since Klara Tsetkin suggested to celebrate every year this
day as the anniversary of the sacrifice of women Textile strikers held on March
8, 1857 in New York.
We do the report of the 100 years of struggles for the equality of women, for
social equality and continuation of our action against the capitalist attacks in
the achievements and rights of women worldwide.
The women’s issue is a complex of economic, political and cultural inequalities
and discriminations that occur in all social relations and derives from the
class relations of exploitation. The experience and life itself showed that the
liberation of women from the class exploitation and the double oppression, its
real equality with men can only be done by eliminating the exploitation of man
by man.
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A day like few
Jeronimo Carrera
Communist Party of Venezuela
March 6, 2010
Translated from Google Translator
The importance of meaning for all humanity, without exaggeration, the date of
March 8 as International Women's Day, has become almost unbeatable. It strikes
me that only the celebration of May 1st, International Workers Day, it is
similar in scope and purpose.
But it is in this sense that today I come to this date, but rather in terms of
concrete outcomes that result for men and women of our country and around the
world, the growing struggle for what has been to qualify as "gender equality"
and that I'd rather seen more as a part of the centuries-fight for all mankind,
from the earliest times, for freedom from all forms of oppression.
For it is a struggle which essentially seeks the release of female labor, in all
its many variants, you should not forget that home is not limited to, the
oppression of women by her husband, who has been so far more common, but is also
expressed in the exploitation of women bourgeois capitalists really make the
work of women workers, whether in business or so-called "service work".
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Women are stronger in the centenary of March 8!
Labour Party, (EMEP), Turkey
March 12, 2010
This year March 8
has a special importance because of the centenary of its
proclamation. Women, who partook in the organised
movement of the working class 150 years ago against
brutal working conditions, discrimination and poverty
imposed by capitalism, have gained many rights by their
struggle. Today, women are struggling against national,
sexual and class exploitation in a more powerful way.
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