International Women’s Day Archives

March 11, 2019Politics

'Quantum Leap for Gender Equality' Demanded on Eve of International Women's Day

NOVANEWS In terms of jobs and income levels, new UN report warns that “progress in closing gender gaps has stalled, and in some cases is reversing.” by: Jessica Corbett A Quantum Leap for Gender Equality: For […]

April 20, 2017India

Identifying the Foundations of Womens’ Oppression, Charting the Course of Struggles for Liberation

NOVANEWS 8 March – International Women’s Day – was born in the struggles that women factory workers in their thousands waged against bondage a century ago. Communists began the tradition of observing IWD in memory […]

March 8, 2017Africa

Letter to “Man-Africanists” on International Women’s Day

NOVANEWS Getty Images Ama Biney The Pan-Africanist movement harbours some African men who conceal patriarchal attitudes. These “Man-Africanists” are cancerous to the advancement of the movement that needs to engage in developing new men who […]