OBSERVE WOMEN'S DAY

To

All General Secretaries 

AICGWBEA 

Dear Comrades,

OBSERVE WOMEN'S DAY

            8th March is observed as International Women's Day world over. Across the world, the women are asserting their rights with the slogan 'half the sky is ours'.

            The media is full of reports on atrocities against women, even against little girls. The national capital is leading in these inhuman, insane acts against girl child and women.

            This International Women's Day may be observed so as to initiate the campaign against these evils.          

 The workers movement is to be build up, the role of women is very important in this movement to face the challenges before us.

            With greetings,

                                                                                                                                Yours fraternally

(K.S.Madhusudhan)

Secretary General

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The International Women' day which falls on 8^th March is observed throughout the world. The UN theme for the International women's day 2013 is "A promise is a promise; time for action to end violence against women". This year in India, we saw a massive uprising against the atrocities on women immediately after the barbarous sexual assault on student in Delhi.  She later succumbed to the injuries suffered during the assault. 

                 Thousands of young men and women, students and common people assembled at Vijay Chowk and elsewhere in Delhi and other parts of the country demanding stringent action against the culprits besides asking the Government to make enactment to protect the women. Empowerment of women is an issue that has to be focused and taken to its logical end. There is no shortcut for that. Raising the conscious level of the society at large through sustained campaign and struggles is the only way out. It is a painstaking path, but there is no other alternative.

The brutalities against women, attempt to dispossess the women of their right to property is the outcome of the patriarchal system that has taken roots in our country. In our society today women are being portrayed as a commercial commodity an offshoot of the impact of the neo liberal economic policies where except profit nothing matters. The fight for empowerment of women, hence, cannot be separate from the struggle against finance capital driven neo-liberal economic policies.