A-Infos (en) France, UCL: UCL Leaflet - International Strike for a Feminist Revolution (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Every year on March 8th, we celebrate the struggles for the rights of 
women and gender minorities, commemorating the revolt of the Russian 
revolutionary women workers of March 8, 1917. But more than a day of 
celebration, it is also a day of strike action. Although this year falls 
on a Sunday, this call to strike remains relevant. Firstly, because the 
sectors where paid work is performed on Sundays are largely precarious 
and predominantly female. Secondly, because we are also calling for a 
strike of domestic labor, which falls primarily on women.

Working towards our massive strike, as women and gender minorities, 
means highlighting how our capitalist and patriarchal world operates by 
exploiting us and assigning us to unpaid or undervalued work, all for 
the benefit of men. This world, through its pronatalist policies, seeks 
to control our bodies and impose reproduction upon them. It orchestrates 
patriarchal violence to maintain us in this social position. On the one 
hand, it exalts virile values in service of imperialist and warlike 
ideologies, and on the other, it attacks our access to healthcare and 
education. By 2025, in one out of four countries, our rights will be 
under attack and equality policies hampered.

Faced with this world, of which we are among the first victims, it is 
we-women and gender minorities-who, everywhere, are also on the front 
lines fighting for peace, restorative justice, the transmission of 
knowledge, and harmonious coexistence with all living beings. Our 
struggles include those of Kurdish women defending their revolutionary 
lands, Palestinian women fighting for their people's sovereignty against 
a genocidal state, Sudanese women facing forced displacement and 
humiliating sieges, and Iranian women striving to overthrow the 
dictatorship. It is the struggle of Afghan women seeking alternative 
forms of education in the face of exclusion, Yemeni women fighting for 
independence in patriarchal rural areas, Sri Lankan women factory 
workers confronting employer intimidation, Mongolian women herders 
battling industrial farms that are draining their land, and Brazilian 
women who organized one of the largest international anti-racist 
demonstrations on November 25th.

We see it clearly: international agreements, laws, and constitutions are 
insufficient to guarantee our rights or protect us from their erosion. 
At a time when fascism is once again establishing itself as an 
acceptable opinion, at a time when the planet resounds with the battles 
of imperialist wars, our lands, our bodies, and our labor are more 
coveted than ever by the ruling classes. Even today, more than 772 
million of us work illegally without social protection, while the UN 
estimates in its 2025 report that it will take us another 137 years at 
the current rate "to eradicate extreme poverty among women and girls." 
We don't have that much time!

Our anti-patriarchal struggles are therefore necessary, not only to 
defend the threatened rights of women and gender minorities, but also to 
build a society free from capitalism and all other forms of domination. 
Let us affirm the urgent need to build feminist roots that connect our 
voices in different regions of the world and provide us with a bulwark 
of sisterhood against reactionaries. Wherever they attack, we will 
retaliate collectively. Wherever they repress, we will stand alongside 
our sisters to defend our freedoms. Let's strike, then, and take to the 
streets on March 8th to remind the world that the revolution will be 
feminist or it will not be at all!

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Greve-internationale-pour-une-revolution-feministe
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