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category international | gender | other libertarian press author Wednesday March 08, 2006 10:29author by Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA)author email wsany at hotmail dot com Report this post to the editors

W.S.A.'s International Women's Day statement

On March 8, 1908, thousands of women left their jobs in the sweatshops of New
York City's Lower east Side and took to the streets to demand their rights as
women and workers. In 1917, their sisters in Russia followed suit, and helped
to bring about the revolution that overthrew the Tsarist autocracy. And in
Spain in 1936 the anarchist women of Mujeres Libres helped to free their sisters
from century's oppression.


In more recent times, women played a key role in the civil rights and
anti-war movements of the 1960's and early 1970's. In 1990's and into the 21st
century, women workers are in the forefront of the struggle against reintroduced
sweatshop conditions in many industries and services. In its brief existence,
this movement has already won important victories, both against the institutions
of power in our society as well as against the more diffuse system of
oppression that pervades the personal relationships of women.

The Workers Solidarity Alliance honors these women, as well as countless
others in every corner of the world, generation after generation, who rise up again
st inequality, oppression and domination. We honor their struggles and
sacrifices they made.

Still their dream of freedom and equality and peace for all people is far
from reality. Everyday, women must still confront sexism in their personal
relationships as well as sexual harassment and violence on the job, in the streets
and at home. Millions of women workers are still ruthlessly exploited. The
right-wing and religious fanatics threaten women's right to control their own
bodies.

The roots of sexism and all oppressive relationships are buried deep in the
principle of hierarchy, authority and militarism. These principles are the
basis for every modern state and established socio-economic system. Faced with
overwhelming system of oppression, we must begin to fight back and take control
of our own lives. We can begin by organizing with our sisters and brothers in
our communities, our schools, and our workplaces.

We strive for a society in which one person or group of people do not
dominate or exploit another. In such a society there would be no basis for sexual
oppression, domination or class exploitation. This would be so because the
institutions of power the nation-state and capitalism would be replaced by a
world-wide system of grassroots empowerment and self-management of all facets of
social and economic life.

Join us in helping to build this new world of freedom and self-management.

Workers Solidarity Alliance
National Office
339 Lafayette Street - Room 202
New York, New York 10012
212-979-8353 wsan@hotmail.com

Related Link: http://www.workersolidarity.org
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