Women

By Brune Ernst On September 2, 2024, the trial began in France against Dominique Pelicot, the man accused of being the organizer of numerous rapes of his wife. For almost ten years, Gisèle was drugged by her husband and raped without her knowledge, more than a hundred times by about fifty men, who are also […]

By EMMA GRACE “The same forces that are attacking our reproductive rights are also trying to destroy our rights as workers. … Without workers, the world as we know it would come to an immediate stop.” — Nga Bui, coordinator of the Mobilization for Reproductive Justice in New York City. On June 24, two years […]

A Statement from the IWL-FI On the occasion of another March 8, International Working Women’s Day, we are proud to publish this new issue of International Mail, dedicated exclusively to analyzing the situation of working women and explaining the revolutionary solution we defend for their liberation. As the capitalist crisis, which is also political, social, […]

By Soraya Misleh, Brazil According to an article published by the Institute for Palestine Studies, entitled “The Women of Gaza during the Ongoing Genocide: Women, War and Resistance” (26/1/2024), written by Madlin al-Halabi, a Palestinian researcher and writer from Gaza, they are the “contour of society.” Consequently, as agents of the production and reproduction of […]

Last week, a bill presented by a handful of deputies from Libertad Avanza was made public. It seeks to repeal the law on voluntary abortion (IVE). It is more clear than ever that these politicians are trying to advance the abolition of rights as quickly as possible and by any means they can. Since they […]

September 28th marks a global day of action for safe and legal abortion. It was established by the Fifth Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Meeting and has since spread around the world. The origin of this day of struggle dates back to September 28, 1871, when the “freedom of the womb” was proclaimed in Brazil, […]

By Mazdoor Inquilab Since t May 4, India’s Olympic-winning female wrestlers are on the ground at Jantar Mantar protesting against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Singh. The allegations against him and the federation are systematic harassment of female wrestlers and corruption. The protests first started in January this year and were withdrawn […]

By Mazdoor Inquilab On the 8th of March, the world celebrates International Women’s Day. It is a day steeped in socialist history, and deeply connected with the struggle of the working class. Despite the best efforts of bourgeois propagandists, they cannot erase this history. While bourgeois governments may commemorate this day across the world to celebrate […]

By: Minerva Solano and Diana Herrero Villareal  Beatriz’s case  Beatriz was a Salvadoran woman whose case shocked the world. At 21, Beatriz, who suffered from lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, became pregnant. The fetus was diagnosed with anencephaly, meaning it would not survive. Given Beatriz’s health conditions, the termination of her pregnancy became a fight against […]

By PSTU-Argentina March 8th: a day made with struggle Beginning on June 3, 2015, we affirmed “Not One More!” (Ni una menos!) with national mobilizations, and ever since we’ve experienced a veritable wave. There were women’s strikes and mobilizations against femicides, discussion over the right to abortion became more widespread, and 8M began to be […]

We live in a chaotic, turbulent, exploitative, gender-based capitalist system. The more resources one has, the more they dominate the economy, politics, and culture. Women’s freedom and subordination must be understood as tied to economic exploitation. The only way for women to truly free themselves from oppression is for a revolution in social and productive […]

By Olena O’Connell and Mariia Goubernik Olena and Mariia are from Ukraine and are currently living in the UK Russia’s war against Ukraine, which began in 2014 and became a full-scale assault on the country on the 24th of February 2022, has brought death and destruction on a large scale. Russia has laid waste to […]

On March 8th, the world celebrates International Women’s Day. Today is a day steeped in socialist history, and deeply connected with the struggle of the working class. Despite the best efforts of bourgeois propagandists, they cannot erase this history. While bourgeois governments may commemorate this day across the world to celebrate its triumphs, and project […]

By Corriente Roja – Spanish State In the Spanish State, 75.3% of the approximately three million people who work part-time are women. According to a recent report by the trade union Comisiones Obreras, 54% of single-parent families are at risk of poverty, 63.8% of pensioners receive a pension of less than 1,000 euros, and the […]

By PT Costa Rica In Costa Rica, the labor situation of women in recent years is really alarming, since within the capitalist system it is working-class women who bear the brunt. Indeed, the wave of layoffs during the pandemic hurt them the most. Today these figures, although they have improved, still leave owmen worse off. […]

The situation for women in Colombia is daunting. We often see cases of femicide in the news, and according to the National Institute of Legal Medicine,[1] a woman is killed every eight hours. Even if not all cases are considered femicides, that is, motivated by the fact that the victim is a woman, the majority […]