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Women’s work and women’s super-exploitation
Let’s reject capitalism’s #EmbraceEquity theme for International Women’s Day and highlight the real issues facing women workers, argues MARY DAVIS
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THE Communist Party’s theme for International Women’s Day is “Women’s Work: Women’s Super-exploitation — Wages, Prices & Profits.”
Contrast this with the “official” IWD 2023 theme, which under the aegis of corporate capitalism, now thinks it owns our day.
Each year this anonymous organisation consisting only of a website and in partnership this year with John Deere (the agriculture and construction company) invents a new theme which is suited to commercial interests.
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