A full-throated example of slogans and demands of the ‘Third Period.’ Just a few years later and the same journal, renamed Woman Today from Working Woman, would be giving fashion tips and recipes as examples of women’s work with the pivot to the Popular Front.

‘International Women’s Day 1930—Slogans and Demands’ by the Women’s Department, Communist Party of U.S.A. from Working Women. Vol. 1 No. 6. March, 1930.

For Revolutionary United Front in Struggle Against Unemployment for “Work or Wages”–Against the Government of Hunger and War. Join in Demonstration on March 6.

Protect the Building of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. by International Solidarity of the Working Class.

Defend the Soviet Union. Turn the coming Imperialist War into Civil War.

Down with Social Fascism of the Socialist Party and the American Federation of Labor, Betrayers of the Working Class. Join the Party of Lenin, the Communist Party of U.S.A.

Fight for the Complete Social, Economic and Political Equality of the Negroes. For a United Front of Men and Women Against Capitalism.

For the Political Mass Strike. Arm Yourself to Fight for the Freedom of the Proletariat. Join the C.P. of U.S.A., Section of the Communist International.

On International Women’s Day working Men and Women, Negro and White, Mobilize for Struggle Under the Leadership of The Communist Party of the U.S.A. For the Overthrow of the Capitalist System and the Establishment of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Equal pay for Equal Work for Men and Women of all races.

Demand the Seven-hour Day, the Five-day Week.

Fight Against the Women’s Trade Union League, Betrayers of the Working Women. Demand Abolition of Night Work for Women and Work in Dangerous Industries.

Prohibition of Employment of Children Under 14 Years of Age–Government Maintenance of All Children. Demand Free Carfare and Free Warm Lunches for School Children.

Fight Against Speed-up, Wage Cuts! Demand Higher Wages, Shorter Work-day, Better Conditions.

Down with the Hoover-Green Strikebreaking Agreement.

Down with Bourgeois Charities. Demand Social Insurance Against Unemployment, Sickness, Old Age, Maternity.

Join the Revolutionary Trade Unions of the Trade Union Unity League. Fight under their Leadership.

Fight Against Eviction for Non-Payment of Rent.

Negro and White Working Women–Join the Councils of Unemployed.

Leave of Absence with Full Pay for Negro and White Women for two Months Before and After Childbirth.

Demand Thirty-Minute Rest Periods Every Three Hours for Nursing Mothers! Nurseries for Children Maintained by Industries but Administered by Workers!

Raise the Class Struggle Demands Against Feminist and Social-Democratic Fake Demands of the Women’s Trade Union League.

Expose the Treacherous Role of the Young Women’s Christian Association and the Young Women’s Hebrew Association Agents of the Bosses–Join the Revolutionary Trade Unions–Join the Young Communist League.

Down with the Oppression of Dollar Imperialism in the Philippines, Haiti, Hawaii, Nicaragua and All Other Colonial and Semi-Colonial Countries!

Mobilize the Working Women Under the Banner of Communism! Bring the Women Workers into the Revolutionary Trade Unions! Build Shop Committees in the Factories.

Only the Proletarian Revolution Can Free the Working Women! Join the Communist Party of the U.S.A.

Employed and Unemployed Workers! Join the Communist Party in the Mass Unemployment Demonstration on March 6.

Fight Against Pacifism! Against Pacifist Illusions Spread by Socialist, Patriotic, Reformist, Religious, Bourgeois Organizations–Tools of the Bosses.

Hail International Women’s Day. Long Live the Communist International.

Build the Revolutionary Trade Unions of the T.U.U.L.–The American Section of the Red International of Labor Unions.

Make Every Factory a Communist Fortress. Prepare for the Proletarian Revolution.

Smash the Imperialist Attacks on the Soviet Union–By International Revolutionary Solidarity of the Working Class.

UNITED FRONT OF WORKING MEN AND WORKING WOMEN AGAINST CAPITALISM.

The Working Woman, ‘A Paper for Working Women, Farm Women, and Working-Class Housewives,’ was first published monthly by the Communist Party USA Central Committee Women’s Department from 1929 to 1935, continuing until 1937. It was the first official English-language paper of a Socialist or Communist Party specifically for women (there had been many independent such papers). At first a newspaper and very much an exponent of ‘Third Period’ politics, it played particular attention to Black women, long invisible in the left press. In addition, the magazine covered home-life, women’s health and women’s history, trade union and unemployment struggles, Party activities, as well poems and short stories. The newspaper became a magazine in 1933, and in late 1935 it was folded into The Woman Today which sought to compete with bourgeois women’s magazines in the Popular Front era. The Woman today published until 1937. During its run editors included Isobel Walker Soule, Elinor Curtis, and Margaret Cowl among others.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/wt/v1n06-mar-1930-WW-R7414.pdf