April 24 is a day of struggle, memory, and international feminist solidarity. It is part of our shared calendar of resistance, a day when we come together across regions to denounce the power of transnational corporations over our bodies, our labor, and our territories.

We mark this day because of the Rana Plaza collapse, when more than a thousand garment workers were killed. They were producing for global brands like Zara, Mango, C&A etc, inside a system that values profit over life. Rana Plaza was not an accident. It was the result of a global system of exploitation that continues to this day.

Since then, the violence of transnational corporations has only deepened. From the textile industries in Bangladesh to export zones in Sri Lanka, women continue to face low wages, unsafe conditions, and repression when they organize. The same system that killed at Rana Plaza continues to operate, intensified, expanded, and normalized.

Transnational corporations are present in every aspect of our lives. In the clothes we wear, in the food we consume, in the land and water we depend on. In coastal territories, aquaculture and industrial fishing destroy ecosystems, pollute waters, and displace communities. Women are left to sustain life under these conditions, feeding families, rebuilding communities, and resisting in the face of ecological destruction.

At the same time, we are facing the expansion of the military-industrial complex, one of the greatest polluters in the world, and a central pillar of this system. Militarization, extractivism, and corporate power convergence operate together, deepening inequalities, accelerating climate collapse, and reinforcing patriarchal domination.

Governments and corporations respond to the crisis not with justice, but with control. Climate crisis is treated as a “security problem,” justifying more borders, more surveillance, and more militarization, often in direct alliance with transnational corporations. Crisis becomes a new field for profit. Under the language of innovation and progress, corporations and states expand systems of surveillance, control, and war. Big Tech and military industries are increasingly intertwined, shaping a world where violence is hidden behind technology and presented as inevitable.

The attacks against Venezuela, including the kidnapping of President Maduro and Congresswoman Cilia Flores, and the ongoing sanctions against Cuba, show how imperialism operates today, through economic pressure, political coercion, and direct intervention. Women in these territories sustain life and resistance under increasingly harsh conditions.

In the Sahel, militarization is imposed as a solution to crisis, but it only deepens instability. Armed conflict, foreign interventions, and struggles over resources continue, while women face displacement, violence, and exclusion from decision-making.

The war on Iran further exposes the violent logic of imperialism, where military intervention and geopolitical interests override the lives of people. Since early 2026, large-scale strikes and retaliations have caused widespread destruction, civilian deaths and regional instability, while also triggering a global energy crisis and deepening economic hardship worldwide.

At the same time, women who defend life are being targeted. From the assassination of Berta Cáceres to the repression and arrest of Esra Işık, we see a global pattern of criminalization of women who resist. Defending land, water, and life has become dangerous, but it is also where resistance grows strongest.

We are facing one global system, where corporations, states, and military power act together. A system that commodifies life, exploits labor, destroys nature, and treats entire communities as disposable.

But we are also building a global response.

Across territories, women are organizing. From garment workers to land defenders, from feminist movements to grassroots communities, we are weaving solidarity across borders. We are strengthening an internationalist, grassroots feminism rooted in resistance, care, and collective power.

We affirm that defending land is defending life. That confronting militarization is a feminist struggle. That climate justice cannot exist without challenging transnational corporations and imperialist powers.

We demand an end to the military-industrial complex and the systems that sustain it. We demand justice for those who lost their lives at Rana Plaza and in all forms of corporate violence. We demand an end to sanctions, occupations, and imperialist interventions. We demand climate justice based on care, sovereignty, and collective life, not control and profit.