168 years after the first uprising of women textile workers in New York, claiming the increase of their miserable salaries, the reduction of working hours, equality in payment and social rights, the situation for the working, unemployed and young women is extremely harsh and getting worse all over the world: unemployment, flexible work, precariousness, psychological pressure and violence in workplaces and lack of health services and healthcare.

The international phase that humanity as a whole is currently going through is characterised by an unprecedented economic and social crisis, which is reflected on the political and military terrain through events that are unfolding with increasing speed. The only margins for growth for the capital come from an increasingly intensive exploitation of the workforce and the planet’s shrinking natural resources, and from the war, so today the condition of people, workers, especially for women, is continuously worsening. The money for arms and war is always there, the money to meet the needs of the working classes is never found, we pay for these decisions in terms of welfare cuts, attacks on wages, high inflation, very sharp increases in the cost of living, a general increasing poverty.

Our struggles as international class oriented trade unions today, like the women workers in 1857, are the only way to change this situation, fight against imperialist designs to bring the world to war, fight against this system of exploitation that wants us slaves.

WFTU has been firmly supports the demands of the working women since its foundation and today calls on its  member organizations to act so that women’s rights are an integral part of their struggles.

In this important day of struggles we reaffirm the solidarity with the heroic Palestinian people and the necessity of the end of the barbaric Israeli occupation.

WFTU women’s committee calls on the women of the world to be active in all fields, in all initiatives and struggles. Therefore, let us turn the anniversary of March 8 this year into an occasion to launch solidarity activities with women to exercise our rights that preserve dignity.

WFTU supports the struggle of women, workers, unemployed, farmers, youth, migrants, against the policies of the capital, monopolies and multinationals.

For more women to join the ranks of the progressive trade union movement and its leadership bodies.

Reclaims our rights!
Decent work and dignity at work
Equal pay for equal work
Maternity benefit to all
Social benefit to all
Health and safety at work places

The WFTU, on this occasion too, calls on working women to join the ranks of the class-oriented trade union movement, in an organized and collective way, together and side by side with male workers, and fight for a world free from wars, free from all forms of exploitation, for a world where all the working class can prosper and enjoy the fruits of their work.

Long live the struggles!!

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The messages of these struggles remain relevant to this day and guide every struggle against the capitalist exploitative system that generates and nurtures discrimination and inequalities. Its neoliberal policies serve the interests of the privileged few at the expense of working people, driving millions of people into poverty, misery and migration leaving aside gender equality, social justice and prosperity. In addition, its imperialist designs are leading to wars and conflicts resulting in destruction and thousands of deaths. The ongoing genocide in Gaza of thousands of civilians, the majority of whom are women and children, is a striking example.

Today, more than ever, 8 March is a day of struggle!

The WFTU respectfully honors this day and addresses a militant greeting to all women in every corner of the world.  For the WFTU, the struggle for women’s emancipation and the securing of all women’s rights ranks high among its priorities. WFTU calls on its member organizations to act so that women’s rights are an integral part of their struggle:

This year’s the 8^th of march cannot fail to bring with it a strong banner of solidarity for the Palestinian people, victims of genocide by Israel; a demand for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and the liberation of Palestine from Zionist occupation. And renew the demand for a halt to the sending of arms to Ukraine and for an immediate withdrawal of our countries from all theatres of war.

WFTU women’s committee calls on the women of the world to activate a support campaign and for more solidarity and support with women who live in conditions of war and poverty. Therefore, let us turn the anniversary of March 8 this year into an occasion to launch solidarity activities with women to exercise our rights that preserve dignity.

For more women to join the ranks of the progressive trade union movement and its leadership bodies.

• For jobs with collective agreements, regulated terms and conditions of employment, especially in sectors and industries where women are underpaid.
• For asserting structures/services/programs to support women’s employment and maternity.
• For women’s equal participation at work and in society.
• For the elimination of discrimination at the workplace, in wages and pensions.
• For safety and health at women’s work and family environment, free from violence, sexual harassment and bullying.

The WFTU, on this occasion too, calls on working women to join the ranks of the class-oriented trade union movement, in an organized and collective way, together and side by side with male workers, and fight for a world free from wars, free from all forms of exploitation, for a world where all the working class can prosper and enjoy the fruits of their work.

Long live the struggles!!

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