On March 8, we are called to action to advance the women’s movement for equality. We celebrate and reflect on the revolutionary women who struggle against the patriarchal capitalist system, the women who have made history, and those who carry this tradition today. Capitalist countries either fail to recognise women struggles on International Women’s Day or co-opt these struggles in order to make of this day an inoffensive one that is rooted in the celebration of femininity as opposed to being rooted in the decades-long movement for women’s liberation. This can be seen in the popular idea that women are oppressed because there are less women CEOs than men.
The fact is that , International Women’s Day has always been and will continue to be a day of action for women’s struggles, for true personhood, for full equality in the workplace, in the home and in the streets. As Young communists, we also take pride that the deep root of International Women’s Day comes from the communist movement: it is Clara Zetkin and Alexandra Kollontai who took the initiative of celebrating March 8th as a day to honour women’s struggles across the world.
