March 8, from Torino to Soweto
Our correspondents report on rallies held to mark International Women’s Rights Day. On March 9, in the township of Freedom Park (south-east of Soweto, in Azania/South Africa), an assembly of women workers met at the call of the Azanian section of the 4th International, with a dozen speeches by activists of all tendencies and a projection of video messages from women in Palestine, France and Russia, interspersed with songs of the labor movement and the anti-apartheid struggle sung by the participants. In Torino (Italy), seventy-five participants (and a dozen by videoconference from Sicily) gathered at the call of the Working Women’s Commission of the workers’ newspaper Tribuna Libera. It was an opportunity for the speakers to highlight the struggle to defend women’s rights, the fight
Toríno (Italy)
against the war in Ukraine and against NATO, and the struggle of all workers against Meloni’s reactionary government. In Lahore (Pakistan), around a hundred women workers gathered for a meeting organized by the All-Pakistan Trade Union Federation (APTUF). Its General Secretary, Rubina Jamil, recalled the origins of March 8th: the International Conferences of Socialist Women with Clara Zetkin, one hundred and twenty years ago. She paid special tribute to « the women of Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Iran, Nepal, Sri Lanka and all over the world who are fighting against patriarchy, the rise of extremism, war, violence, anti-women laws and, of course, the denial of their fundamental right to equal pay for equal work and the right to form trade unions ».
With our correspondents