March 8 symbolizes the struggle politically organized women have undertaken for more than 100 years. Since the early 20th century, women have made efforts to build a date to express the meaning of the life and struggle of working women…
World March of Women International Declaration for March 8, 2021
One year on since the entire world faced the beginning of the first pandemic of the 21st century, we, women, see the coming of a new March 8, and in this year of 2021, it carries a different weight. For…
Building bridges and alternatives: the fifth international action of the WMW in the Basque Country.
From October 17th of last year until March 6th of this year, the WMW sisters of the Basque Country were engaged in the construction of the 5th International Action in their region. The action, which is still going on, is…
On 02/23, attend the webinar “Challenges of grassroots feminism”.
The International Women’s Struggle’s Day is approaching, and the World March of Women is organizing two webinars to connect, visibilize and discuss the challenges and agendas of anti-capitalist feminism. On February 23rd, the first webinar “Challenges of grassroots feminism” will…
Political education and movement building in Kisumu, Kenya.
WMW Kisumu chapter consist of women of diversity who are committed and have passion in addressing issues affecting girls and women. The unique expertise of all members forms an excellent platform to build the movement. Women play an outsized role…
Here comes Capire, a new feminist communication tool
Communication is one of the key points for the World March of Women. Together with our allies, we have participated in joint initiatives to create a feminist and popular communication, which makes visible the alternatives of women and people throughout…
Our solidarity with the sahrawi people: All people have the right to self-determination!
The western sahara is occupied by Marocco since more than 40 years. Since 1991, since 1991 there had been a ceasefire agreement between the military forces of Marocco and the Polisario Front. However, during all these years, Marocco has been…
World March of Women closes 5th International Action connecting all regions of the world
From October 12 to 17, the World March of Women closed its 5th International Action. With the slogan “We resist to live, we march to transform”, the Action marked the 20th anniversary of the WMW and organized the movements’ confrontations…
Feminist Economics and Environmentalism for a Just Recovery: Outlooks from the South
The World March of Women and REMTE Red Latinoamericana de Mujeres Transformando la Economía and Friends of Earth International made a new publication based on the webinar “Feminist Economics and Environmentalism for a Just Recovery: Outlooks from the South”, that happened on June 30.
Marching and transforming in alliance
In 20 years of struggle and history, the World March of Women bets on the self-organization of women and the building of alliances with anti-capitalist social movements. Our alliances are strategic. They are not only the sum of agendas, but…
Declaration for the 5th International Action 2020
This is the closing statement of the 5th International Action of the World March of Women, which began on March 8 and ended on October 17. This 5th Action is held in the year in which the WMW celebrates 20…
Land and self-determination
Sisters from the Middle East and North Africa region held an online meeting to discuss the situation of women and land in the various countries of the region. In countries and territories of Kurdistan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, oppression against…
Women of the Americas in Resistance
Based on three workshops held online in July and August, with the participation of 40 women, WMW Americas prepared the closing regional document of the 5th International Action, called “Women of the Americas in Resistance”. The text is the result…
Fighting against debt and for human rights
In our places of life and struggle, we denounce the use of the pandemic as an excuse to open more doors to the power of multinational corporations and indebtedness. In Pakistan, the World March of Women released today an open…
We will keep marching to transform
The crisis created by neoliberalism in Europe, the growth of the extreme right and the reaction of movements in the streets — see the MMM Europe regional document. The Basque country is preparing a mobilization to denounce the transformation carried…
The International Feminist School holds its pilot meeting
For several years, the World March of Women has discussed the need to create a school for the members of the March. Well, the International Feminist School is coming! It is part of the WMW’s partnership with Grassroots Global Justice…
Closing of the 5th International Action in Africa
From October 12 to 17, 2020, the World March of Women closes its 5th International Action, with the motto We resist to live, we march to transform. In all the regions where the March is organized there will be activities…
Declaration of october 12, 2020 of the World March of Women – Francophone Africa
At the closing of our 5th International Action, women from nine countries of French-speaking Africa gathered and prepared a short and powerful declaration in defence of our lives and territories against capitalist plundering. We are The Earth Family of Africa,…
Closing week of the 5th International Action!
From october 12th to 17th, there will be activities around the world to celebrate the closure of our 5th International Action. The different regions will have manifestations on different days. Stay connected! We resist to live! We march to transform!…
In defense of democracy, against neo-liberalism.
Let us build a wide corridor of struggles that put life in the center, anti-imperialist, anti-fascist, anti-patriarchal, anti-racist, for food sovereignty. — Llanisca Lugo, Centro Memorial Martin Luther King, Cuba The struggle for democracy, the struggle to confront neo-liberalism and…
Women face setback and demand rights
In Brazil, the Philippines, Pakistan, Turkey, women of the World March of Women participate in movements against the violence and the setbacks and for rights. We resist to live, we march to transform! In Brazil, the National Front Against the…
Women in Turkey for a life with equality and freedom
The Women’s Platform for Equality of Turkey, formed by 312 women’s organizations and LGBTI+, released at the end of August five urgent demands for all provisions of the Istanbul Convention to be implemented in that country. The statement is a…
The World March of Women celebrates the creation of the Simón Bolivar Institute for Peace and Solidarity of the Peoples
From the World March of Women we congratulate the women and men who have made concrete the creation of the Simón Bolivar Institute for Peace and Solidarity of the Peoples in Venezuela in the difficult circumstances imposed by Covid-19, the…
Towards the closure of our 5th International Action
At this moment, countries and territories where the World March of Women is organized hold discussions and workshops to contribute to the closing statement of the 5th International Action. In the closing week, we will disseminate the platform of the…
Ebru Timtik: a revolutionary lawyer killed by injustice in Turkey.
Ebru Timtik was buried today in Turkey. She was a member of Contemporary Lawyers’ Association and of People’s Law Office. Defensor of revolutionary people, she was arrested in 2017 along with other 18 colleagues. She was acquitted in the begging…
We keep resisting to live and marching to transform!
The Liaison Newsletter provides information on the activities of the World March of Women in all regions since April, when we celebrated the 24 hours of feminist solidarity against the power and impunity of transnational organizations. At this moment, we…
A message of condolence and solidarity
To our sisters in Beirut, to the Lebanese people, The Coordination of the World March of Women – Middle East and North Africa (MENA) receives with deep sorrow the sadness of the Lebanese people following the terrible explosion that took…
To our sisters in Beirut, to the Lebanese people.
We have watched in horror the suffering of you and your people in the last few hours. We cannot find words to express the pain we feel with the terrible news flying from Beirut to Nuestramérica (Our America). At this…
Feminist criticism of corporate power
The virtual book and video series “Feminist Criticism of Corporate Power” are online! The material is the result of the feminist elaboration process for the 5th International Action of the World March of Women, which has the denunciation of transnational…
We are thousands of women supporting the Mapuche people
DECLARATION OF THE WORLD MARCH OF WOMEN We, organized women and members of the World March of Women – Americas, strongly repudiate the racist and colonialist attack against the Mapuche people. And we denounce the following: Four days ago, Victor…
We continue organizing
The coordinations of the World March of Women in Europe have been mobilizing since March, when we launched our 5th International Action, with activities both in the networks and in the streets. The news sent by the comrades from Euzkal…
The cycle of injustice, exploitation and oppression will be broken.
Due to the destructive neoliberal economic policies which eliminated what was left of the Lebanese economy after the end of the civil war and created an unproductive rentier economy, relying mainly on services in the form of the banking sector…
Women’s struggle in Kurdistan
The capitalist system which thrives on ecological destruction and exploitation is striving to turn the Covid-19 pandemic process into an opportunity to extricate itself out of its multi-faceted down flow all over the world. As women of the MENA region,…
The palestinian people in the face of colonization, occupation, and the COVID-19 pandemic
Palestinian women face many challenges in their daily lives, these challenges are represented as obstacles put forward by colonization, the annexation plans, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Israeli occupation continues its colonial policies aiming to abolish the Palestinian cause through…
Stop the ravaging of Cabo Delgado
In June, the World March of Women signed a letter demanding transnational corporations to stop the ravaging of Cabo Delgado, the northernmost province of Mozambique. The gas industry is causing devastation in Cabo Delgado, with communities starving and landless, even…
Consuming in solidarity
In Jalisco, consuming toxic free food means rebellion, resistance, organization and solidarity in the hands of rural women who bet on agriculture for life! Self-care, such an important issue in these times of pandemic, provokes deep reflection on what enters…
Authoritarianism attacks women’s rights, bodies, territories.
Neoliberal authoritarianism does not respect quarantine. And in times of pandemic, the repression of women who resist increases. The comrades of the World March of Women in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) send us news from Kurdistan, Lebanon…
“At precisely 3.24 p.m. an intense cry of anger was heard everywhere.”
In Switzerland as elsewhere in the world, Covid-19 has placed women at the forefront of the fight against the pandemic. No one can deny it: without them, without their work seven days a week, 24 hours a day, survival would…
Chronicle from Euzkal Herria
This past March 8th we gave the first news about the 5th International Action, also coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the World March of Women. A few months before, at the end of 2019, we began to work with…
Africa in the frontline of resistance
The World March of Women Africa held, on Africa Liberation Day, May 25th, the webinar African Women in the Frontline Resisting Territorial Occupation Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic. The activity was organized by women from Mozambique, Tanzania, Ghana, Zimbabwe, South Africa,…
Garments workers protest for their wages in Bangladesh
In the last seven years, Bangladesh’s garment industry has increased its annual revenue from US$ 19 billions to US$ 34 billions — a 79% rise. This makes the country the second largest exporter in the world, with the sector accounting…
The fight against transnational corporations goes around the world
April 24 was a day of struggle in our 5th international action. The World March of Women in 32 countries and territories mobilised in 24h of Feminist Solidarity Against the Power and Impunity of Transnational Corporations. All the activities carried…
Women feed the world
On May 15, 2020, women from different countries and continents, but who speak similar languages – Galician and Portuguese – met to discuss food sovereignty. Lídia Fernandes, from Portugal; María Ferreiro, from Galicia; and Miriam Nobre, from Brazil, talked for…
Feminist communication on the move
The dispute for communication is fundamental in our struggle. Neoliberalism and the forces of the extreme right use misinformation, fake news and manipulation as a method. We are building feminist and popular communication practices. Every communication action we take is…
Congratulations to the women of Sudan!
We, women of the World March of Women of the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, congratulate the Sudanese women following the declaration by the Sudanese Justice the approval and adoption by the Transitional Council of the law criminalizing…
No to the Zionist annexation plan! Free Palestine!
Yesterday, 1 July, the Israeli government would begin the annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank and the Jordan Valley, where 65,000 palestinians live. This is the latest attack on the rights and freedom of the Palestinian people who…
Racism and Anti-Fascism – Webinar
In 2020 the World March of Women (WMW) celebrates its 20 years as an international movement. Our 5th action is a call for confrontation, from the perspective of women’s struggles, with the progression of the forces of the extreme right…
In solidarity with the people of the United States
The Jornada Continental por la Democracia y Contra el Neoliberalismo (Continental Convening for Democracy and Against Neoliberalism)expresses its internationalist solidarity with the people of United States who resist today and rise up following the murder of George Floyd at the…
International Appeal to Stop Violence Against the Peoples in Colombia
Daily killings — the Colombian pandemic As organizations, platforms, movements, and national, regional, and international articulations, we condemn and vigorously denounce the systematic and selective murders of comrades from rural and urban organizations in Colombia. In 2020 alone, 84 leaders…
International Call for an Anti-Imperialist May Day in Defence of Life with Dignity
It has been more than one hundred years since the first International Worker’s Day on May 1st. It’s is a day of struggle and celebration that historically has brought millions of people from political and worker’s movement to the streets.…
24 Hours of Feminist Solidarity against the power and impunity of transnational corporations
The 24 Hours of Feminist Solidarity of the World March of Women Against the Power and Impunity of Transnational Corporations (see more about it here) begun in New Caledonia on April 24th 2020. Every April 24th we are committed to…
The conflict is between capital and life. We defend life!
24 hours of Feminist Solidarity Against Transnational Corporations Comrades, sisters around the world! Feminist and in solidarity greetings in this special and unique time of our lives, marked by distance and isolation between us, and between us and the people…
April 24 – 24 Hours of Feminist Solidarity Against Transnational Corporations
The virus of capitalism These months of pandemic and need for social isolation reveal many things that have long been part of our feminist criticism of racist capitalism. The essential jobs for life, care (paid or unpaid), food production and…
20 reasons to march on March 8
Women in the streets: launching the 5th International Action on March 8
At the launch of the 5th International Action of the World March of Women, on March 8, International Day of Women’s Struggle, we expressed our political position regarding the current moment with the slogan We resist to live, we march…
Palestine Land Day – for the right to self determination
On March 30, 1976, the Israeli army attacked demonstrators in the midst of a strike organized by Palestinians n Galilee in the face of another advance of illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory. Six people were killed, hundreds wounded .…
Video – We resist to live, we march to transform
A bit of the story of the World March of Women and why feminists around the world need to march in 2020. This is the year of our 5th International Action and marks 20 years of the movement. Under the…
March 8 – The World March of Women mobilizes and launches the 5th International Action 2020
We have few days left until March 8, when the World March of Women will be in the streets on the International Day of Women’s Struggle and will launch our 5th International Action. We resist to live, we march to…
Solidarity with Venezuela and against neoliberalism
Today, February 27th, is the day of Solidarity with Venezuela. This date marks the 31st anniversary of the Caracazo, when popular protests were the first insurrection against neoliberalism in that country. Between February 27 and March 6, the army and…
Celebrating our path
This year, the World March of Women turns 20. Do you already know our trajectory? This is a timeline celebrating our 20 years of march, in the year of our 5th International Action. You can download it. #WMWinAction2020
We march in solidarity with the saharaui women
Forty-five years ago Western Sahara was occupied by Morocco, with the help of the Spanish government — which abandoned its then colony, collaborated with the invasion and, to this day, gives in to the blackmail of the Moroccan kingdom to…
Freedom for Rita Nyampinga!
IIn May 2019 our companion Rita Nyampinga, from the World March of Women in Zimbabwe, was illegally arrested at Harare airport, together with six other human rights defenders (Nyasha Frank Mpahlo, Tatenda Mombeyarara, Gamuchirai Mukura, George Makoni, Farirai Gumbonzvanda and…
We resist to live, we march to transform!
Call for the 5th International Action of the World March of Women 20 years after the launch of the World March of Women, we call on women in movements from around the world to join our 5th International Action, from…
We resist to live, we march to transform! 5th International Action
Call for the 5th International Action of the World March of Women 20 years after the launch of the World March of Women, we call on women in movements from around the world to join our 5th International Action, from…
Anti-Imperialist Week – Resist the imperialist offensive
The World March of Women is part of the group of international organizations that together with the International Assembly of Peoples is calling for the International Week of Anti-imperialist Struggle, from 25 to 31 May. Organised by various movements, networks…
Towards the International Action 2020 – Liaison Bulletin
This year the World March of Women will carry out its 5th International Action 2020, under the slogan “We resist to live, we march to transform!“ With this Action, we will continue to advance in building a permanent and militant…
No to coups against women, no to coups d’état
Women in solidarity with the people of Bolivia Faced with the coup d’état that the government of Evo Morales Ayma is experiencing, the World March of Women in the Americas region stands in solidarity with the Bolivian people. Faced with…
We stand with the Chilean people.
The World March of Women welcomes the rebellion of Chilean youth who have set such an example of courage. We stand in solidarity with the Chilean people who, tired of the neo-liberal policies that take away their rights, join the…