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MARCHES and strikes took place across the world today with more planned tomorrow as International Women’s Day saw global acts of resistance against women’s oppression.
Millions demonstrated across Latin America, with many taking part in an “international women’s strike” which will see many stay away from work and school today.
In Mexico multiple marches and strikes are taking place, highlighting a grim rise in femicide statistics. The government says that 3,825 women were killed in violent attacks last year, a 7 per cent rise on 2018 and double the figure from five years ago.
Professor MARY DAVIS argues that feminism has been hollowed out by liberal co-option – and only a revival of socialist, class-based politics can restore International Working Women’s Day’s original, radical purpose
Comments from Matt Goodwin and Danny Kruger expose a reactionary vision in which falling birth rates are blamed on women, says JUDITH CAZORLA
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD