Joint Statement Of ILPS/ILPS-WC On The Occasion Of International Working Women’s Day 2025
Statement of the ILPS in Collaboration with the ILPS Women’s Commission
On this International Working Women’s Day, the International League of Peoples’ Struggles (ILPS) stands in unwavering solidarity with the working-class women of the world in their fight for liberation, justice, and genuine equality. Continuing the history of March 8, we commemorate it as a day of resistance and militant assertion of women’s rights against exploitation, oppression, and imperialist plunder.
The struggles of working women remain urgent and widespread. Women workers continue to suffer from poverty wages, precarious employment, unsafe working conditions, and systematic gender-based violence. Neo-liberal policies have intensified the exploitation of women workers, particularly in industries dominated by low-wage and contractual employment, such as manufacturing, service, and agricultural sectors. Flexibilization of labor to guarantee maximum profits for multi- and transnational corporations has resulted in worse vulnerabilities and economic insecurity of women, especially with feminized labor migration that has led to millions of women being displaced from their homelands, forced into exploitative conditions as domestic helpers, factory workers, and caregivers with little to no legal protection.
We recognize the integral role of working women in advancing the fight for social transformation and justice. Across the globe, women are rising to resist capitalist exploitation, imperialist wars, and the destruction of livelihoods caused by capitalist greed and oppressive states. Women from indigenous communities, peasant movements, urban poor organizations, and labor unions are at the forefront of revolutionary struggles demanding systemic change.
On this day, ILPS demands:
- An end to imperialist plunder and neo-liberal exploitation – Women workers must be freed from the shackles of forced labor migration, contractualization, and poverty wages imposed by monopoly capitalism.
- Full labor rights and protection for working women – Equal pay, maternity leave, workplace safety, and the right to organize must be guaranteed and implemented in all industries.
- An end to state repression and violence against women activists and labor leaders – States worldwide must uphold the civil and political rights of women to fight for labor rights, land reform, and genuine democracy.
- Genuine agrarian reform and food sovereignty – Rural women must have access to land, resources, and sustainable livelihoods free from feudal and corporate control.
- The dismantling of imperialist war machines and militarization – Women bear the brunt of war, displacement, and occupation. We call for an end to imperialist wars and the redirection of resources towards social services and human development.
ILPS salutes the working women of the world who continue to resist the powers that be—whether in their feudal-patriarchal homes and communities, in their nations ruled by tyrants, or in the global arena where imperial superpowers fight to monopolize the world’s resources—in order to liberate not only themselves, but fellow oppressed and exploited peoples of the world. The proletarian women of the world are potent forces in national liberation struggles against imperialist domination.
From the picket lines to the streets, from factories to farmlands, from homes to political arenas—our highest salute and solidarity to all the women waging militant struggles across the globe to end all forms of exploitation and oppression. The women and peoples of the world stand together in the anti-imperialist struggle for genuine liberation and social justice.
Long live international solidarity!
Signed,
ILPS in collaboration with the ILPS Women’s Commission (Commission 7)
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