To mark the 70th anniversary of the General Strike of May 1926, the Weekly Worker will carry contemporary articles from the communist press each week
Women must work
From The Workers’ Weekly, paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, February 19 1926
In 1926 on March 8 women throughout the world will be holding meetings and demonstrations ... and in some countries where the white terror reigns, they will be trampled underfoot and their banners torn from their hands.
But in spite of this the work will go on, for working women of all races are beginning to realise that only when the class to which they belong is no longer enslaved will women be able to shake off the chains that bind them.
In capitalist countries, when economies have to be made, it is always the women and children who are attacked first. Education, the feeding of school children, the refusal of benefit to unemployed women - the policy of the Tory government in Britain towards all these things has been a ruthless cutting of expenditure.
... The capitalist offensive in Britain is answered by the growing unity of the workers, by the formation of women’s councils of action, and by the preparations that women are making to play their part in the struggle.
The message of the Communist Party on this day is one of unity of all sections of the workers, men and women, of all races and nationalities, in the struggle for complete freedom and equality. This is the only message that will result in drawing large numbers of women into our ranks.
Number 133
Thursday March 7 1996
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Abolish the monarchy
The Labour Party is too scared to even criticise the monarchy, let alone
abolish it. Only revolutionaries can lead the fight for real democracy
Shameful day for Scottish councils
As they try to implement these cuts they will be met with resistance every
step of the way
Letters
Common sense; British Imperialism; Wrong side; Giving support; Militant
and the SLP
Socialist Labour Party: Join the fight!
Now is the time to get into the melting pot and fight for the party our
class desperately needs, argues Ian Farrell
Battle against all odds
Helen Ellis reviews 20-52, directed by Jeremy Weller for Grassmarket
Project at Tricycle theatre
Fascist distortions
John Bayliss reviews Ecofascism by Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier
Slippery slope
Lee Yates reports on Workers Power's twists and turns over Scargill's
SLP
Metamorphosis
Bob Smith - For a Permanent Party Polemic Committee
Right steps up class war
Marcus Larsen of the Communist Party Advocates sums up the Australian
general election
Social democrats and Euros to hold hands
at last?
Steve Kay assesses the current state of Spanish politics
International struggle of working women
International Working Women’s Day celebrates the fight for women’s
liberation, the fight for communism, writes Linda Addison
Source of dynamism
To mark IWWD, Linda Addison spoke to Siobhan McLoughlin, a leading comrade
in the CPGB, about the chasm which divides the Labour Party’s attitude
to women in the Party and the Communist Party’s attitude. In this
divide we can see the way forward for women’s liberation against
the vicious attacks the Labour Party has made on the working class in
the past and its future plans
Devastating hypocrisy
The ending of the IRA ceasefire has given the Irish peace process a new
lease of life, argues Jim Blackstock
Israel/Palestine: Of bombs and liberals
A genuine Communist Party, capable of uniting the region’s workers
against their reactionary leaders, is still a long way off, writes John
Craig
Safety campaign
Eddie Ford reports on the work of the Constructioon Safety Campaign
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