On March 8, workers and revolutionaries convened across the country for International Working Women’s Day, holding demonstrations, educational seminars, and cultural events.
In Seattle, WA, over 100 people participated in the 3rd consecutive IWWD march hosted by Puget Sound Revolutionary Youth and the Puget Sound Struggle Committees. The demonstrators took the streets in the working-class neighborhood of Rainier Beach, hoisting posters featuring Chinese Communist revolutionary Jiang Qing, Palestinian resistance fighter Leila Khaled, American journalist Anna Louise Strong, Black Liberation Army fighter Assata Shakur, Filipino Communist revolutionary Wilma Tiamzon, Brazilian Popular Women’s Movement leader Sandra Lima, and Peruvian Communist revolutionaries Comrade Norah, Edith Lagos, and Comrade Laura.
During the march, participants burned the American flag and decapitated an effigy of Commander-in-Chief of U.S. imperialism Donald Trump. Speeches were given denouncing imperialist violence against women in the Third World and honoring the revolutionary women’s movements in Brazil, Peru, Turkey, India, and the Philippines.
In Portland, OR, around 20 activists gathered on IWWD for a screening of The Red Detachment of Women, a film depicting female combatants of the Chinese Red Army during the People’s War in China in the 1930s. The film screening was organized by Portland Anti-Imperialist Action.
In Oakland, CA, a cultural event for IWWD was organized by the Bay Area Revolutionary Women’s Committee and attended by roughly 200 people. The event took place in a park and featured speeches, songs, and other activities for the attendees. Several organizations attended the event, including the Bay Area League of Class Conscious Workers, Revolutionary Student Organization—Santa Cruz, and Revolutionary Student Organization—Davis.
In Davis, CA, a study of the document “Postmodernism and Feminism: Individualism and Bourgeois Relativism in the Service of Imperialism” by the Popular Women’s Movement in Brazil was held by Revolutionary Student Organization—Davis.
In West Lafayette, IN, activists from the West Lafayette Revolutionary Student Front hosted a presentation discussing the oppression of women through the international sex trade, with a particular focus on the recent revelations about the politically-connected finance monopolist and serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein. The activists discussed how these abuses against working women and girls are the product of the imperialist system and how they demonstrate the necessity of overthrowing it.
Later on in the presentation, RSF activists discussed the historic gains of women under socialism in the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China as well as the role of women’s struggles in the revolutionary movements in Peru, Turkey, India, and the Philippines today.
