Feminism

This call was published by Sotsialnyi Rukh on their Facebook page.

LAST YEAR I celebrated International Women’s Day in Lviv in Western Ukraine. It was the first women’s march since the end of COVID and the beginning of the Russian reinvasion in 2022.

“Without organising women workers in hosieries, in jute mills, among hawkers, fighting for their rights, 8th March loses its significance. Today, when neoliberalism and Hindutva-fascism is sharpening assaults, women’s rights must also be placed within the context of fighting that.”

“At a time when we would like to see “surging” mobilizations in the face of an exponential rise of the far right, we take a closer look at what the feminist mobilizations of the autumn of 1995 can teach us about the possibilities of unity today.”

All over the world, women are promoting networks of solidarity, forms of protection and denunciation against all violence, whether domestic, imperialist military or fascist. Women are building forms of resistance in their territories against hunger, poverty, wars, extractivism, climate collapse and deprivation of rights.

As the world spearheads 16 Days, an annual awareness campaign to prevent violence against women and girls that covers the period from November 25 to December 10, a new humanitarian analysis conducted by CARE in the Philippines reveals a stark reality. In Northern Cebu province of Philippines, thousands of women, girls, and boys are living and sleeping in the open. They have no walls, no lighting, and no sense of safety they once knew. “Living Without Fear” is CARE’s focus during the 16 Days awareness campaign.

"On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, observed globally from 25 November to 10 December, Free Women will conduct simultaneous national actions in four cities under the theme ’Decent Work and Freedom from Violence Will Not Be Achieved Under an Anti-Democratic Regime’. This is an effort to strengthen the global commitment of the women’s movement to end torture and violence against women."

An interview with Feminist Workshop (Ukraine) by Patrick Le Tréhondat (ENSU, France).

Dramatically falling birthrates and a skyrocketing number of divorces as the number of marriages collapsing increases all point toward the erosion of the capitalist family unit in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Such trends, furthermore, represent an existential crisis for the nation, as the deepening crisis of social reproduction in the post-socialist country also threatens the reproduction of its necessary supply of labor power. But what exactly is this crisis of social reproduction, and what, if anything, is specific about the situation in the PRC? What role does the feminist movement in the PRC play in all of this?

Amandla! interviewed Denia Jansen, Co-ordinator of the gender based violence (GBV) programme for the Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA)