8M 2023

By PT Costa Rica In Costa Rica, we have identified a general regression in our country’s women’s movement as a result of a decrease in the international movement for the struggle for women’s rights. This is also due to the defeat of the PAC (Partido de Acción Ciudadana, Citizens’ Action Party) and progressivism in general […]

By Corriente Roja – Spanish State In the Spanish State, 75.3% of the approximately three million people who work part-time are women. According to a recent report by the trade union Comisiones Obreras, 54% of single-parent families are at risk of poverty, 63.8% of pensioners receive a pension of less than 1,000 euros, and the […]

By PT Costa Rica In Costa Rica, the labor situation of women in recent years is really alarming, since within the capitalist system it is working-class women who bear the brunt. Indeed, the wave of layoffs during the pandemic hurt them the most. Today these figures, although they have improved, still leave owmen worse off. […]

The situation for women in Colombia is daunting. We often see cases of femicide in the news, and according to the National Institute of Legal Medicine,[1] a woman is killed every eight hours. Even if not all cases are considered femicides, that is, motivated by the fact that the victim is a woman, the majority […]

Statement by the IWL-FI Another March 8th is here and we, working women, will take to the streets to raise our banners of struggle with energy and determination. This day unites the struggles we have been leading across the globe, be that encouraging women workers to organize against violence, fight against inequality, and/or challenge our […]

Women in El Salvador suffer under some of the most draconian and harsh laws pertaining to sexual and reproductive health. An abortion or complications during birth, such as a miscarriage, can land women in jail for 50 years. In addition to a lack of autonomy over our bodies, the Salvadoran government of Nayib Bukele and […]

Dr Rhona Bridget O’Brien Stubborn and persistent workplace inequalities are gendered and intersect with age, class, disability, ethnicity and sexual orientation in the UK, in spite of the implementation of the Equal Pay Act (1970) and the Equality Act (2010). The gender pay gap is also experienced at each stage of the life-cycle, with casualised […]

On February 6, 2023, two major earthquakes centered in Kahramanmaraş occurred. The earthquakes were felt strongly in the provinces of Antep, Maraş, Adana, Hatay,  Amed, Osmaniye, Adıyaman, Kilis, Malatya and Urfa. After the first earthquake, which struck during the night, some areas were practically destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people trapped under the rubble […]

Poor and working women, especially in rural areas, find themselves in the struggle against the murderous government of Dina Boluarte and the Congress, suffering the repression unleashed by it. However, in addition, they carry on their backs the weight of the economic, social and political crisis that envelopes the country, subjected to lower paid and […]

In the U.S., we are experiencing a moment of reactionary upsurge against women and the LGBTQI+ community. These frontal attacks have the most immediate and devastating effect on the most oppressed sectors of the country, in particular working-class, immigrant, Black, and indigenous peoples. The disintegration of democratic rights happens within a context of a heightened […]