Special Issue | March 8, Day of Feminist Struggle Against War
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Special Issue | March 8, Day of Feminist Struggle Against War
Hello, sisters of the world!
March 8 is International Women’s Struggle Day. This year, 2024, we recall the internationalist meaning of this date by expressing women’s struggle for the end of the ongoing genocide in Palestine. For more than a century, every year we mobilize on this day to push forward the feminist struggle in the streets, networks, and fields, to build a new world without racism, patriarchy, poverty, hunger, war, and colonialism. Around the world, women build—by many hands—the concrete alternatives to build this world of peace that we want, with no violence, with food sovereignty, and an economy centered around the sustainability of life.
On this day, we join the voices of women and gender-dissident people from across the globe who come together in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Capire, with ALBA Movements, the International Peoples’ Assembly (IPA), and the Utopix collective, launched an international call for posters in solidarity with Palestinian women. This gallery is the result of this call, which shows how art can strengthen internationalist solidarity and alliances. It features 44 posters from countries of all regions of the world. Check it out! Visit the Utopix website to download the posters.
We also recommend that you read previously published content about the history of March 8 for women’s struggle. We look back on March 8, 2000, “a date to remember in the history of the women’s movement worldwide.” That moment, feminist militants from more than 50 countries were getting ready for the launch of the World March of Women (WMW), a global movement of solidarity and resistance by women against capitalism and patriarchy.
We remember the words of Nalu Faria about the meaning of March 8 to position an anti-systemic feminism. In 2021, Nalu said the date maintains the same meaning as it did when it first emerged, when women in the Russian Revolution were fighting hunger and war. In her analysis, which is still relevant today, Nalu said that “today, in our context, our demands also include the fight against hunger, against genocide, against all war, and we know for sure we will be millions struggling for the sustainability of life.”
And the origins of March 8 celebrations as a day of women’s struggles allude to the 2nd International Socialist Women’s Conference held in 1910 in Copenhagen, Denmark, where the German socialist leader Clara Zetkin and other activists presented a resolution with the proposal to officially institute an international women’s day, following the example of the socialists in the United States. The article In search of lost memory looks back on this moment of feminist and socialist struggle.
Finally, we recall the gallery “Living Memory of March 8,” which gathers a snippet of the strength of March 8 across the world, featuring 133 pictures by 44 women from 40 places (cities, territories, countries) who have submitted their photographs, taken in different years.
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