Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE) was an organization that worked closely and was led by members of the CPUSA throughout the 1970s and 1980s, organizing around issues of women’s equality, labor rights, racial justice, peace, and international solidarity.
WREE fought for equal pay for equal work, affordable childcare, an end to racial and gender discrimination, and against war and militarism—linking the struggle for women’s liberation with the broader struggle for working-class people around the world.
Their legacy reminds us that the fight for equality has always been inseparable from the fight for economic justice!
And Dorothy Burnham, who is featured in a couple of the photos above, recently turned 111. Wow! Happy Birthday Dorothy!!










