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Socialist Women/ Mujeres Socialistas
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Statement on May Day 2010

This May Day, 2010, the Women's Commission of the Socialist Party USA joins our socialist feminist comrades worldwide to honor the work women do both to maintain our families, workplaces, and communities and to fundamentally change the system that so persistently and callously disregards and undermines these efforts.

This year, we celebrate, in particular, the actions of public sector workers, domestic workers,  and other sections of the working class who are fed-up with layoffs, cutbacks, and bad pay and working conditions and are fighting back by demanding economic justice and the right of all to high-quality education, jobs, health care, housing, mass transit, and social services in a safe, healthy, and sustainable environment.

As socialist feminists, we look forward to increased cooperation and coordination among public and private sector workers, within and across national borders.  We know that only solidarity and organization at the international as well as at the local level will enable us to create a broad-based global democratic socialist movement for women's and workers' rights.

Happy May Day!  Together we will make capitalism and patriarchy history!


About Socialist Women
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History
Socialist Women is the national publication of the Women's Commission of the Socialist Party USA.   It has been in circulation since the Fall of 2000, starting as a 2-page newsletter, but rapidly expanding to an 8-page magazine distributed around the country 3 times a year.  Currently, Socialist Women is a 16-page magazine, published twice a year (March and September) in conjunction with the Socialist Party's other national publication, The Socialist.  It is produced by a four-person collective consisting of three editors and a designer.  It is printed by Saltus Press, a unionized print-shop in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Mission
Socialist Women is a socialist feminist publication dedicated to the realization that women's personal and political lives are inextricably connected.  During the Second Wave of feminism in the 1970's and 1980's, millions of us came to understand the nature of our
oppression and the horrendous impact of patriarchy on our existence as individuals. The low-status and 
Socialist Women is the official publication of the Socialist Party USA's Women's Commission.

Read the Fall 2009 issue on-line here
discrimination we experience today is an outgrowth of the twin evils of patriarchy and capitalism.  This situation can only be overcome through the awareness, actions, and solidarity of women and men combined with the consciousness, ideology, and programs necessary to build an international mass movement for fundamental social change.

How You Can Support Socialist WomenThe Production Collective of Socialist Women welcomes and encourages the participation and involvement of its readership.  Possibilities include soliciting and/or submitting material; soliciting and/or taking out ads; finding and maintaining distribution points for SW; and making financial donations to increase our ability to increase the circulation of SW, nationally and internationally, and to enable us to pay a small stipend to our contributors. 
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Articles, poems, letters, commentary, graphics, announcements, and advertisements should be sent to the Production Collective of Socialist Women c/o Susan Dorazio (susandor@crocker.com).  Articles may not exceed 1500 words, and should be oriented toward the socialist feminist perspective and be related to the theme of that issue (which can be found on this website).

Contact Information
The Production Collective members include:
Courtney J. Campbell courtneyjcampbell@gmail.com
Susan Dorazio susandor@crocker.com
Stephanie Cholensky rino_szepasszony@yahoo.com
Skipper Hammond
skipperhammond@gmail.com

National Office of the Socialist Party USA is located at 339 Lafayette St. #303, NY, New York 10012.  The phone number is 212/982-4586. E-mail: natsec@socialistparty-usa.org.  Web: www.socialistparty-usa.org.
The National Secretary is Greg Pason.

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