Argentina

March 8, 2025: International Day of Socialist, Internationalist and Combative Working Women

In Argentina, to defend our rights and achieve our fair demands…

Down with Milei, the government
of big business and imperialism!

We must break with all the pro- employers' politicians
and throw out the union bureaucracy!

To stop fighting divided and unite all the demands of the working class and the exploited:
For a National Coordination of Struggle!
We must pave the way for the general strike!

This 8M, working women we have many reasons to continue fighting. We are one of the most super-exploited sectors of the working class. We have been suffering Milei's government brutal attack, he’s a partner of the genocidal Netanyahu and agent of Trump and the IMF, against all the workers and exploited masses to impose the plan of imperialism and the big bosses of labor flexibilization and colonialism of the nation.
Hundreds of thousands of female workers were laid off from factories and public offices, swelling the ranks of the millions of unemployed in the country. Those of us who have the “privilege” of continuing to work do so as slaves, the absolute majority of us illegally, under unbearable conditions and with starvation wages that do not even cover the 10th of each month. In addition, the public health and education systems of our children and of all workers is being emptied and even further destroyed .
Not satisfied with this, they are now attackimg our rights such as the legal figure of femicide (a pagué that continues to multiply day after day), CSE, the trans and disability employment quota, etc.
And when we go out into the streets to fight, they respond to us with Security Minister Patricia Bullrich's police protocol, who never tires of beating up the retirees who go out to protest because their paltry pensions no longer afford anything to eat.

Enough of subjecting the forces of working women
to the feet of our executioners!

This 8M, the Kirchnerite pro-employers’ politicians want to pose as standard-bearers of our rights and of the "feminist struggle", when in fact they, together with the   hawkish anti-workers of the UCR and the PRO, are the ones who gave Milei the quorum and voted for the "Ley Bases" bill and all of his anti-worker bills against working women, the entire working class, retirees, students and all of the poor people, and have been giving him governability.
Meanwhile, Peronism is applying the same plans as Milei in the provinces it governs, as governor Kicillof does in Buenos Aires, even discounting the days of strikes for teachers who are fighting for decent wages.

After the massive demonstration on February 1 (1F) in defense of the achievements of the LGTBIQ+ community, which we guaranteed by self-organizing at the January 25 assembly in Parque Lezama (Buenos Aires City), it was the Kirchnerites that prevented a new immediate mobilization and imposed a delayed one for this March 8, to  prevent the path to a general strike from being opened so that Milei could continue to unleash his attack and his bourgeois gang filling up their pockets with their “ crypto businesses.”

Now that 8M has arrived, their union bureaucrats from the CGT and the two CTAs come out to talk about an “international feminist and transfeminist strike” for this Saturday… In other words, they are calling for a “Saturday strike” (which they are obviously not going to guarantee) when they were dedicated to scabbing the general strike and even the smallest struggle against the government and this infamous regime! Traitors!
The Peronist union bureaucracy has been openly supporting Milei, surrendering all the workers' conquests, signing hunger collective bargaining agreements and negotiations by factory as the bosses want, and allowing thousands of layoffs to happen. Meanwhile, they guarantee to separate the demands of the women's movement from the demands of the whole labour movement, in order to hand over the working woman as cannon fodder for the super-exploitation of the capitalists and prevent the whole labour movement from leading the struggle.

And on top of that, this call for a “feminist strike” is being made with the UTEP, that slave cooperative of Grabois (Kirchnerite political personality), servant of Bergoglio (the pope), the Vatican and the Church, who are the greatest enemies of the women’s struggle.

For an 8M of struggle, together with the entire working class against the capitalists and their government!

The only way to defend our achievements and fight for our demands is to fight for a strategy of class independence to free ourselves from the hands of the pro-employers' politicians and the union bureaucracy so that we can confront the Milei government.
Unfortunately, at 180° from this perspective, the leadership of the FIT-U (parliamentary left parties) continues to insist on its policy of subduing the enormous forces of working women and the entire feminist movement in a “transversal front” with the pro-employers’ politicians “against Milei”. This 8M the currents of the parliamentary left propose “being thousands in the streets”… without calling for a break up with the PJ party or for the expulsion of the union bureaucracy… Thus, once again the FIT-U subordinates itself and gives up the demands of the working women’s struggle in order to “maintain” a “transversal” unity with Kirchnerism in the feminist movement, with the same ones who during the Fernandezes government (2019-2023) starved us to death in the service of the IMF and destroyed the workers’ ranks, imposing the flexibilization of 60% of the working class, without any rights, the majority of whom are working women!
We have already seen the results of this policy of the FIT-U, which throughout last year called for exerting pressure on the Parliament so that the hawkish anti-worker politicians vote against Milei's bills, when they are all servants of the US embassy. Before that, they had forged a "transversal front", using the right to abortion as an excuse, with bourgeois "sorority" legislators who today openly support the government.

This March 8, thousands upon thousands of us will once again take to the streets across the country, as we did on February 1, in that great mass action in the streets against the government and its infamous regime.
The pro-employers' parties and the union bureaucracies are betting that the mobilization will end and that on March 9 the layoffs, starvation wages and attacks on all our conquests will continue, and that those of us who fight for the rights of working women will continue to fight divided, the Bonaparte mental health public Hospital comrades and the health workers on one side, the state workers and teachers on the other, the unemployed and students on theirs.
So that no exploitative bourgeois lady wants to usurp our banners and no one steals our struggle, the way forward is self-organization like we did last January 25 in Parque Lezama. Let this 8M be the starting point to stop fighting divided and unite all our demands with those of the entire working class! For a National Coordination of Struggle!

Working women must be at the forefront of the fight to defeat the union bureaucracy in order to achieve a plan of struggle and reopen the path to a general strike to overthrow this murderous and starving government and its police regime.

This is the path to unite the entire workers' movement , employed and unemployed, precarious and unregistered workers, etc., to unify all our demands against layoffs, the high cost of living, rate hikes; for wages increase, proper jobs, decent housing, high quality public healthcare and education systems, and much more; in order to jointly declare war on all our executioners, with the method of class struggle and proletarian revolution. That is the unity we need!
The struggle to defend our achievements, for equal rights for oppressed women and all democratic demands can only be resolved by the working class and its fighting organizations leading the exploited masses in the fight against the government and the capitalist parasites.

For women's committees in unions, factories, schools and establishments to fight for all our demands!

Down with the Church of Pope Francis, collaborator with the Videla dictatorship, and its pedophile and rapist priests! Separation of the Church from the state and expropriation without compensation of all Curch assets under workers' control!

Equal pay for equal work! Minimum, living and mobile monthly wage of ARS$1,800,000 (around usd1,500) and under collective agreement for all! Reduced working shifts without pay cuts and one more shift in all establishments!

For free and quality nurseries, laundries and canteens funded by capitalists and the state!

Triple the budget for public education and healthcare sytems now!

To defend ourselves from sexist violence and the trafficking networks of judges, prosecutors and murderous police officers and pimps: For vigilance committees in neighborhoods, factories, schools and establishments! Dissolution of the caste of judges and all repressive forces of the state!

Stop persecuting those who fight! Drop all charges forged against all working class and popular fighters! Down with the repressive and police regime of Milei and the US!

The IMF must be expelled!
Milei and his bosses from imperialism and big business must be thrown out like De la Rúa was in 2001!

For an 8M together with the world proletariat against imperialism, its governments and regimes

We revolutionary socialist female workers fight to end all oppression of working women by fighting every day for the socialist revolution. On this 8M we affirm that, to free ourselves, our path rests alongside the international working class:

We must fight alongside Palestinian women and all the Palestinian people against the genocide of Zionism and the US, which was led yesterday by pirate Biden and today is continued by Trump! For the destruction of the Zionist-fascist State of Israel!

We must stand with the women and all the masses of Syria, who suffered the greatest femicide of the 21st century perpetrated by al-Assad, Putin and the US, who massacred more than 600,000 exploited (more than half of them were women and children). Today, after the masses overthrew al-Assad government, the new puppet government of al-Jolani holds hundreds of political prisoners -as reported by the mothers and wives of comrades imprisoned in Idlib-, while the State of Israel is already occupying southern Syria against the exploited who have risen up.

We stand with the women of Ukraine and its entire working class against the murderer Putin who has occupied and torn apart that oppressed nation, which the butcher Trump now seeks to colonize completely.

Our sisters are the women and their children who are enslaved in the Congo and throughout black Africa so that imperialist transnationals can plunder their minerals and raw materials.

This 8M, we must raise high the fight for all immigrant women and workers who today in the US are brutally attacked with fascist methods by the Trump government. The new executioner in the White House treats our immigrant siblings just like the parasites of Wall Street treat working women in Latin America and other colonial and semi-colonial countries that they oppress!

Today, all of them are the symbol of imperialist attacks against working women around the world. For them and for all of us, this 8M, which is our day, we must make it a true international day of struggle for working class women. We must  prepare with workers from all over the world a single international struggle and a global general strike to stop Trump's murderous hands and confront imperialism!

Those who do not fight against capitalism and imperialism, such as the union bureaucracies that hand us over as cannon fodder for the exploitation of employers, and the social-imperialist parties that serve their own bourgeoisies, do not fight for the rights of working women.
To fight for our rights and achieve our demands, we must fight against this capitalist system that oppresses and super-exploits us, together with our class siblings from all over the world!

Make way for the working women!
For the entire working class to live,
the rotten imperialist capitalist system must die!

January 25. Self-convened assembly in Lezama Park

Healthcare workers in struggle

Palestinian women returning to Northern Gaza

December 2024. Women of the Syrian revolution lead a demonstration demanding the release of political prisoners in Al Jolani and HTS prisons