Alice M.
On March 8th, International Women’s
Day, people of the world celebrate and honour the achievements and struggles of
women for economic and social liberation, justice and equality.
In Australia, decades of struggle by women
have won limited pay equality, rights to publicly funded child care, women’s
reproductive rights, and rights to employment, education, superannuation and
sex discrimination laws.
However, rights are difficult to enforce
under capitalism where the power is held by big business monopolies. The few
gains made by women are never permanent and always under pressure from capital
to ignore or dismantle altogether.
Working class women carry the heaviest
burden. The majority are in lowly paid jobs, on processing lines, in call
centres, in shops and stores, cleaners in hotels and offices, and carers in
nursing homes. Many are migrants. Women make up more than half of part-time
workers and casuals and are the first to be sacked.
Women are also unpaid primary carers of
children, families, the sick and the elderly. The overwhelming majority of
single parents are women living on poverty line.
The present crisis of imperialist monopoly
capital is unleashing savage attacks on people’s economic and social
livelihoods. Working class women are at the pointy end of these attacks.
Women in the developing nations and countries
ravaged by imperialist wars of occupation are in intense and bitter struggles
against the economic and social oppression of neo-colonialism, semi-feudalism
and imperialism in all their forms.
Liberation from neo-colonialism, imperialism
and monopoly capital is the only road for women of the world to take and move
towards socialism.
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Related statements:
Women are confronting outmoded patriarch: capitalist-imperialism and religious fundamentalism http://aworldtowinns.co.uk/?p=290
On the history of IWD and proletarian feminism: http://anti-imperialism.com/2014/03/08/international-working-womens-day-2014/
On the history of IWD and proletarian feminism: http://anti-imperialism.com/2014/03/08/international-working-womens-day-2014/
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