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March
8, International Women’s Day, is the day to
protest and cry out against women’s
subjugation. It is the day that the view of
the civilized and egalitarian humanity that
women and men must be equal is loudly and
clearly expressed.
All over the globe, inequality and
subjugation of women are perpetuated by the
capitalist system on the daily basis. Not
only in Islam-ridden countries, where women
are subjected to the grossest and most
extreme forms of discrimination and
suppression, but also in the most advanced
capitalist countries, despite a century of
relentless struggle, women are still
inferior and all aspects of their lives are
shaped by the capitalist system.
More women and girls are illiterate,
homeless, refugees, and poor, deprived,
starving to death, victims of rape and
working as sex workers.
In the most advanced capitalist
countries, women are paid less and their
share of wealth is lower, while they carry
out a larger portion of work in the society.
In Europe and America, women are the
most marginalized part of the marginalized
communities. Under the policy of
multiculturalism and cultural relativism,
the lives of migrant women and girls are put
at the mercy of backward cultures, where
they are deprived of the most basic rights,
humiliated and abused.
March 8 is the day to reveal all these
facts and cry out to put an end to this
barbarism.
Long live March 8, the international
day of struggle against inequality and
sexual apartheid.
Abroad Organization,
Worker-Communist Party of Iraq
March 5, 2007 |