A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #366 - Antipatriarchy - Sixth World March of Women: "We resist to live, we fight to transform!" (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Since the beginning of the 12th century, international feminist 
gatherings have been organized every five years to unite forces and 
share struggles. A look back at 2025, the year of the sixth World March 
of Women (WMW). ---- Beginning on March 8th in Boujdour (Western 
Sahara), this sixth World March immediately brought together feminist 
movements around local struggles against the Moroccan occupation. But 
the strength of the international network lies primarily in connecting 
protest movements and enabling Sahrawi women to march alongside 
Palestinian, Haitian, Venezuelan, Cuban, Pakistani, Filipino, Congolese, 
and Indonesian women for the same sovereignty of peoples.

This year of mobilization saw feminist slogans spread from all corners 
of the world, including from war zones where women have not ceased their 
struggle. Between March 8 and October 17, 2025-between the International 
Day for Women's Rights and the International Day for the Eradication of 
Poverty-there were numerous opportunities to discuss existing social 
policies and their impact on women's living conditions.

Key dates marked the culmination of major actions: the day of solidarity 
against transnational corporations on April 24; three days of action at 
the end of June against extractivism in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, led 
by nomadic pastoralists; the 3rd Nyéléni Summit in Sri Lanka in 
September; and others. With the tent as a symbol of resilience in the 
face of forced displacement and land appropriation, women around the 
world expressed a shared hope for the eradication of patriarchy and 
capitalism.

Borders as Obstacles
In mid-June, the MMF 13 PACA coordination hosted the European leg of the 
event in Marseille. While these three days included a traditional 
international demonstration, they were primarily marked by numerous 
discussions on how to keep the struggles against borders alive.

Amidst the ongoing mobilization for the release of Georges Ibrahim 
Abdallah and Palestinian independence, the debates were rich and focused 
on the racist policies favored by the far right. These discussions 
allowed for the sharing of experiences to highlight the inequalities 
that shape our struggles: borders, colonization, international economic 
circuits, war, and Western xenophobia. The MMF's strong focus on 
anti-militarist and anti-imperialist struggles stems from the fact that 
these are also dominant demands within non-Western feminist movements, 
which constitute a majority of the organization. These activists face 
violence from our states even within their own political groups: the 
2025 European stage took place without the presence of the movement's 
international coordinator, whose visa was refused by the French state. 
Faced with repression and the obstacles erected against our solidarity, 
it is more crucial than ever that we, European feminists, strengthen the 
struggles to open our borders.

Fighting for peace means fighting against capitalism, and here again, 
women are on the front lines. Unable to organize the closing event of 
the 6th march in Nepal, as borders were once again too difficult to 
cross, an international meeting for the International Day of Peace and 
in support of the struggles in the country was organized virtually. 
Despite the difficulties and the alarming absence of European and 
American feminists, the invaluable testimonies shared should be 
emphasized, both to shift our perspective and to counter the fascist 
bias of the French media. The MMF offers an essential tool for shaping 
our revolutionary struggles: organizing international feminist 
solidarity to build a sisterhood without intermediaries, where demands 
and outrage meet, and where women's voices recount a different history 
of revolutions.

Ness (UCL Marseille)

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Sixieme-Marche-mondiale-des-Femmes-Nous-resistons-pour-vivre-nous-luttons-pour
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