Women

Almost 60 years ago, on November 25, the Mirabal sisters were murdered for facing Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. For formal records, the UN has decreed this date as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, but we regard it as a day of struggle,...

From rape accusation to pornography revenge. By: Érika Andreassy, ​​of the National Secretariat of Women of the PSTU, Brazil 06/13/2019 The rape accusation that weighs on Neymar and the coverage given to the case by the press and  social networks show once again the degree of machismo that permeates soccer , the...

The Movement Women in Struggle held a protest against sexist violence in Brazil on June 7, 2019. By CSP-Conlutas Media Workgroup The number of murdered women doubled in January and February in Sao Paulo State alone. The “Atlas of Violence”, an official yearly survey on violence in Brazil, went into public this month. For...

Seven years ago, on April 28, 2012, Carolina Garzon was seen for the last time when she was on holidays in Ecuador. By CSP-Conlutas Media Workgroup May 1, 2019 Carolina was Colombian. She studied Arts in the “Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas” in Bogota, Colombia. She was a member of the Socialist Workers...

Under that slogan hundreds of women demonstrated in Beirut for International Women’s Day. They marched from Beshara Khoury to Mina al-Hosn on March 10, 2019. By Hasan al-Barazili On top of the main demand for improvement in living conditions, two others were raised: down with Kafala system and equal rights facing...

On March 8, 2019 there were huge demonstrations. By CSP-Conlutas Media Workgroup In Uruguay it was the largest demonstration ever. The streets of Montevideo were taken by demonstrators. In Argentina, on top of huge demonstrations, teachers were on strike. In Chile, where the struggle for women’s rights have been very strong, thousands and...

March 8 demonstration started across the world. IWL-FI members join many of them. Check their pictures here: Brazil: https://www.facebook.com/pstu16/videos/798406440511295/ https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/posts/2372661832765104   Valparaíso, Chile: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/posts/2372453699452584 Italy: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/posts/2372533546111266 https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/photos/a.985348764829758/2372533809444573/?type=3   Portugal: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/posts/2372552219442732 https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/videos/2174160569326296/ https://www.facebook.com/ahorapodemos/videos/402824097187417/   Londres: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/videos/253179875558648/   Paraguay: https://www.facebook.com/serpajparaguay/posts/2215080958530061   Honduras: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/posts/2372586476105973 Madrid: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/photos/a.985348764829758/2372690276095593/?type=3 https://www.facebook.com/cobasmadrid/videos/2284892505115848/ Brazil, Sao Paulo: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/posts/2372692192762068 https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/posts/2372784819419472 Argentina: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/posts/2372759599421994 https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/posts/2372757942755493 https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/posts/2372783319419622 https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/videos/634468020341299/ Chile: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/posts/2372757069422247   Madrid: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/posts/2372752882755999 Catalunya: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/posts/2372783959419558 Uruguay: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/posts/2372750956089525 Natal, Brazil: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/posts/2372733902757897 Paraguay: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/posts/2372719156092705 Sao Paulo, Brazil: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/posts/2372692192762068 Salvador, Brazil: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/photos/a.985348764829758/2372786709419283/?type=3 Sevilla, Spanish State: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/photos/a.985348764829758/2372800526084568/?type=3 Lisboa, Portugal: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/videos/2319653148306603/ Asuncion, Paraguay: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/videos/326684774865361/ Sao Paulo, Brazil: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/videos/794191687631534/ Mexico: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/photos/a.985348764829758/2372820002749287/?type=3 Uruguay: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/videos/1039512376241395/ Paraguay: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/photos/a.985348764829758/2372827899415164/?type=3 Buenos Aires: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/videos/382287905685040/ Spanish State: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/videos/420561728714754/ Coruna, Spanish State: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/videos/251168492500539/ Granada, Spanish State: https://www.facebook.com/litci.cuartainternacional/videos/429295311139909/  

The struggle for the emancipation of women has been intertwined from its beginnings with the socialist worker movement. Marx wrote in his book “The Holy Family” (1845) that “The degree of emancipation of woman is the natural measure of general emancipation”. By Juan Parodi In a private letter he reaffirmed that...

Today it is the International Day of struggle of working class women. In almost all countries, protests, demostrations and strikes will be carried out in defense of women's rights. The IWL-FI and its sections joins many of these actions under a working class and socialist perspective. Here you can follow...

2019 has started with a lot of sexist violence coming up. At the end of this edition, there had been thousands of women murdered, apart from group rapes and other cases that the media has turned into a showcase. The Catholic and Evangelical Churches are still silent about it. By:...