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Women at the forefront of the struggle for peace
Communist Party of Ireland Statement on International Working Women’s Day 2025

IT WAS March 8 in 1917, in the midst of World War I, when women workers took to the streets with the cry of “Peace, Land and Bread” and began the process of the Russian Revolution.
Women have since remained at the forefront of the anti-war struggle, here in Ireland and across the globe. This International Working Women’s Day, the Communist Party of Ireland salutes all women involved in anti-imperialist struggle, and particularly the anti-war movements.
As the crisis of capitalism deepens, so too does the exploitation of women in the home and the workplace. When almost 25 per cent of Irish women workers are low-wage earners, the rising costs of childcare and the loss of wages to inflation bites very hard at home.
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