In Australia, over the last year the Socialist Party (CWI Australia) has concentrated its political activity for working women in Victoria on fighting against the Industrial Relations legislation which will impact on the living standards of every Australian woman.

The political situation in Belgium has changed a lot in the past year.

We are constantly told by the mainstream media that girls are outperforming boys at school and that young women now have more opportunities and choice than women of previous generations.

The campaign activities up to the 8 March reached top speed.

For over a year the German service trade union Ver.di has been attempting through a campaign to set up workers' councils (Betriebsraete) in the retail chain, Lidl in order to improve conditions of employment.

A group of around forty women have been leading a struggle for jobs and pay at the Selfex factory in the south east of Caracas for several weeks.

The 2006 budget drawn up by Trevor Manual, the finance minister, has been lauded by the media and by the capitalists’ ‘advisers’ throughout the country.

International Women’s Day will be celebrated on 8th March in Pakistan and other countries with large Muslim populations in a situation where Islamic religious parties and groups are still agitating against the blasphemous cartoons printed in a Danish newspaper.

With nearly half of working people raising children, access to affordable, quality childcare is a basic necessity for tens of millions of people. Yet working families are caught in a catch-22: parents need to work to pay their bills and depend on leaving

In case you needed one last reason to turn your back on the Democrats, the Party's senate leadership is about to provide one. Senate hearings over John Roberts' nomination to the Supreme Court begin in early September. But already the discussion has shift

Bush's nomination of hard-line conservative John Roberts to the Supreme Court represents a real threat to the rights of women, workers, and people of color.

Sexism is deeply embedded in military culture. Military life demands unquestioning obedience to superior officers who are overwhelmingly men, which reinforces time and time again the inferior place of women. Male soldiers are exposed to and become part of a way of life that constantly sexualizes and devalues women. It is an extreme, concentrated expression of the sexism underlying capitalist society generally.

Even though less than one third of voters actually turned out for Bush last November, the Democratic Party has taken his victory as a sign that America in general is moving to the right. To match this perceived shift, leading Democrats are arguing that their party needs to attract conservative voters by shifting to the right on "moral" issues like abortion, same-sex marriage, and religion.

The religious right has declared war on women and our reproductive rights. With Bush reelected, the Republicans' grip on Congress strengthened, and same-sex marriage bans passed in 11 states, the November election has emboldened the religious right, which is demanding paybacks for getting out the evangelical vote.