For an 8M fight, revolutionary and internationalist. Against the extreme right and Trump!
It's 8M, International Day of Working Women, It is framed in a moment of reactionary offensive by the extreme right in different parts of the world, but also of strong expressions of struggle and mobilization in response to that offensive. The women of the LIS come out this 8 March to fight for our won rights and we organize with a clear strategy against patriarchy and capital, for a revolutionary feminism, internationalist and socialist!
Reactionary offensive of the extreme right against gender rights
The far right advances with a global offensive directed against the rights of women and LGBTQIA+ people, as part of a broader antisocial and antidemocratic agenda. This is headed by Donald Trump in the United States and followed by the government of Javier Milei in Argentina to that of Giorgia Meloni in Italy., where the goal is one: attacking rights won with decades of struggle. Policies against gender violence are cut, comprehensive sexual education is pursued, the right to abortion is criminalized and sexual diversity is stigmatized.
These governments and movements do not act in isolation: they express a response of the capitalist system in crisis. They attack care infrastructures with their cuts and promote old family values, in order to offload the adjustment on the working majorities and reinforce the patriarchal order as a pillar of social control.
The answer is in the streets!
Nevertheless, This offensive does nothing but ignite the flame of struggle. In every attack a response arises. At every retreat attempt, the organization grows. Women and dissidents rise up to defend the rights they have won and go for more, articulating their demands with the struggles of the working class and oppressed peoples.
The fight for a free Palestine and against the genocide perpetrated by Zionism and supported by American and European imperialism; the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people against the Russian invasion without ceasing to battle against NATO and its imperialist plans in Eastern Europe; the solidarity of the people with the Venezuelan people against imperialist intervention and against the criminal blockade of the United States against Cuba, or the rising mobilizations against Trump and ICE, are samples of this response that, far from stopping, grows. In the same way, the massive protests in Iran against the repressive regime as well as in the defense of its independence against attacks from the US and Israel, the defense of Rojava in Kurdistan or the struggle of the Sahrawi people for self-determination demonstrate how, in the face of violence and the reaction of the State, women are on the front line of the fight for their rights, his freedom and his life.
For a revolutionary and internationalist solution
The emancipation of women and sexual dissidence will not be the result of partial reforms or concessions from above. It demands a socialist and revolutionary orientation that starts from recognizing that gender oppression has its own dynamics., although it is deeply intertwined with class exploitation. Integrating both dimensions into a common strategy is a condition for a real transformation of society..
The fight against femicides, for the right to legal and free abortion, for equal pay, for the full recognition of LGBTQIA+ identities and against all forms of violence, they cannot remain isolated or fragmented. They need to be articulated in a perspective that aims to dismantle the material bases that sustain patriarchy and capitalism.. It is not just about gaining rights within the system, but to question the system that reproduces inequality, violence and oppression.
Facing this structure means comprehensively combating capitalism in crisis., the patriarchal order that runs through it, structural racism, the colonial legacy and heteronormative imposition. They are not disconnected oppressions: They are part of a framework that organizes exploitation and hierarchizes lives.. Because, our response cannot be sectoral or merely defensive.
So that the struggles are not diluted or absorbed by institutional projects that manage what exists, a revolutionary political tool is essential, organized on a national and international scale. Just a conscious direction, with program and strategy, can take the fight for a society without exploiters or oppressed to the end.
So we say: let's not fight just to defend the crumbs from your table, let's fight to conquer the whole world, for all of us.
We say no to all cuts in social infrastructure, because they are women, migrants and sexual dissidents who are forced to absorb the crisis, and we demand massive public investment financed through the expropriation of the rich and subject to the democratic control of workers.
We say no to layoffs, the salary cuts and the increase in the pace of work that affect us workers first; instead, we fight for equal pay, the reduction of the working day with full salary compensation and the redistribution of work among all.
We say no to the endless burden of care, childrearing and unpaid domestic tasks that fall on women; instead, we fight for the socialization of reproductive work, for collective child care, medical care, kitchens and care and upbringing structures organized by society as a whole, so that this is recognized as essential social work and stops being a private obligation of women.
The reformist variants that hope to humanize capitalism end up colliding with their own limits. History shows that it is not possible to eradicate gender oppression without attacking the social relations that sustain it.. Nor is it possible to end capitalism without the active and organized participation of women and dissidents as the central political subject of the transformation..
This 8M we reaffirm that perspective. We mobilize not only to resist the attacks of the extreme right, but to strengthen a revolutionary and internationalist alternative. Because our fight is for a profound reorganization of society, for a world where life is worth more than profit and end oppression, exploitation and violence.
Women and LGBTQIA+ Commission of the International Socialist League
