International Women's Day 2022

 

We celebrate International Women's Day March 8, 2022 in the name of the courageous women of the last century who walked off their sweatshop jobs demanding health and safety, wages and the right to vote. They awakened the solidarity of women around the world.

These women shirtwaist workers walked off the job for better wages and the right to vote in 1909, striking for 13 weeks in a bitter cold New York winter. At the Second International Conference of Socialist Women in 1910, German Communist Clara Zetkin proposed that March 8 be set aside each year for solidarity with women workers around the world. 

Since 1977 International Women’s Day has been recognized and celebrated by the United Nations. Like May Day, International Women’s Day is borne of the struggles of the U.S. working class for decent wages and working conditions and equal rights. 

In 2022 we stand in solidarity with our sisters laboring as essential workers, especially women of color and immigrant women hit hardest in the pandemic. We continue to organize for a just recovery from the COVID-19 crises of health care, inequality, racism, climate, and for transformative change to achieve equity, dignity and justice.

In 2022 We stand for NO WAR on Ukraine, NO WAR on Russia, NO WAR anywhere, no expansion of the NATO military alliance, money for human needs not for war -- For the future of women and families of all nationalities, and for the future of our planet.

In Solidarity and Unity, Connecticut Communist Party USA