International Women's Day 2011

This year in Brisbane, join us on March 5 to celebrate International Women's Day. There will be a rally in Brisbane Square (top of Queen St mall) at 1pm.

This month, women’s rights campaigners around Australia and the world will celebrate the 100th International Women’s Day. In 1910, women from 17 countries met at the International Conference of Socialist Working Women met in Copenhagen and decided to organise an International Working Women's Day to provide a focus for women around the world to campaign for the right to vote.

The last century of successful campaigns - for women’s right to vote, attend university and do paid work, for example - has given many women much to celebrate. But for the overwhelming majority of women in Australia, and even more so in the rest of the world, the demands of the first IWD have yet to be met. In fact, under the neoliberal policies imposed by global capitalism since the 1980s, they are becoming further out of reach for most women.

All issues are women’s issues, and every achievement in campaigns against racism, or imperialist war, or poverty, or any form of exploitation or injustice is a step forward for women’s rights.

End the NT Intervention!
Repeal all anti-abortion laws!
Equal work=equal pay!
Same sex marriage rights now!
End mandatory detention!