International Women's Day each year provides an opportunity to focus in depth on the condition of women, the class struggle against inequality and the tasks that face us in the immediate and more long‑term future.
In Britain, the austerity measures of the coalition have been nothing less than a brutal assault on working‑class women.
Beginning with the Emergency Budget of June 2010 draconian measures "to fill the economic deficit" have hit women hardest, taking their jobs and slashing the benefits and services on which so many depend. And, with less than a quarter of the already-planned cuts implemented, the worst is yet to come ‑ that is, unless we put a stop to it.
