07.03.1996

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.