Call for Womens’ Day 2020 from AIRWO India: Resist fascism! Fight for equality and dignity for women!
Even as the divisive, communal and sinister CAA was passed amidst surging protests throughout the country, led in great part by women and youths, atrocities against women and the relentless pauperization of the masses have continued to rise steadily.
We are approaching the International Working Women’s Day at a time when Indian women are not only facing unprecedented violence but also being deprived of decent jobs and wages and being pushed into an existence of dependence and penury. Data released by the National Crime Records Bureau have revealed that a total of 2,249 unemployed women committed suicide in 2018. The total number of suicides by unemployed women and men surpassed that of farmers and serve as a harsh comment on the state of joblessness and poverty in the country.
Women of the world weave a bond of solidarity! Call for the 3rd World Women’s Conference of grassroots women 2021 in Tunis!
From the Andes, to the Rocky Mountains, from Ayers Rock to the Alps, from the Himalayas to the Urals and Atlas, our call resounds and becomes an outcry that spreads across the world – echoing in the metropolises until it finally reaches every corner of the earth! It embraces more and more women. Let us weave a bond of solidarity together!
Come to Tunis for the 3rd World Women’s Conference 2021!
Tunisian women textile workers are fighting against work stress, gender discrimination and violence at work. Courageous strike leaders are put on black lists. Women textile workers in Bangladesh fight unionized for a minimum wage that is enough to live on. They defy prison and violence. They all form the backbone of the militant women’s movement.
In Iran the embers of the revolution are re-ignited, women stand up – defying death – against the Islamist-fascist mullah government. Their demand for women’s rights is connected with the struggles of the workers. Indigenous women of Latin America fight for the future of the children and the planet. They call out to the world: Save our mother earth!
Proposal for the Agenda for the European Conference of the WFK on 9 May 2020 in Srbrenik/ Bosnia
European Coordinators
Halinka Augustin/Netherlands
Susanne Bader/Germany
| No. | Subject | Responsible | Time |
| Friday 08. May | |||
| Arrival and registration
In the evening a friendly “welcome” |
World women from Bosnia
All of us |
||
| Saturday 09. May | 9:00 | ||
| 1 | Welcome and greetings | Bosnia | 15 min |
| 2 | Presentation of the present
Delegations and guests |
Coordinators | 15 min |
| 3 | Discussion and decision on the
Agenda and Rules of Procedure |
Coordinators | 15 min |
| 4 | Review and control of 2018 decisions | Coordinators | 15 min |
| 5 | Report on the work of the
Coordinators from April 2018 to April 2020, Discussion |
Coordinators | 45 min |
| 6 | Delegations’ country reports You also have the possibility to show photos Each country report maximum 10 minutes = 1.5 pages Reports should include: We ask you to send us your country report by 24. 4. 20 at the latest in writing |
Each delegation for its own country report
plus 5 min at the lecture for the translation |
180 min |
| 7 | Work to be done, roadmap for the 3rd WFK and resolutions of the 4th World Meeting in Erfurt 2019 | Coordinators | 105 min |
| 8 | Financial independence – trademark of the World Women’s Conferences | Coordinators | 15 min |
| 9 | Resolutions and resolutions
Please bring your suggestions |
Coordinators | 45 min |
| Expected end (including breaks) | 18:30 | ||
| Evening cultural programme
Please bring ideas for it |
All of us |
On Sunday there is a cultural program of our hostesses.
Solidarity with the Kurdish Women and Liberation movement in North East Syria
European Coordinators of the
World Women’s Conference of Grassroots Women
Susanne Bader/ Germany
Halinka Augustin/Netherlands
Deputy European Coordinator:
Zaman Masudi/Germany
14th October 2019
To the Continental Coordinators of the World Women’s Conference
Solidarity with the Kurdish women- and liberation movement and all people
in Rojava/Northeast Syria!
We World Women strongly condemn the war of aggression against Rojava/Northeast Syria by the fascist Erdogan, his state and military, which is violating international law!
We have stood side by side with our Kurdish friends in many cities of our countries since the beginning of this imperialist attack on the liberated territories.
Continue reading “Solidarity with the Kurdish Women and Liberation movement in North East Syria”
Further international greetings to the Women’s Day 2019
From the Philippines sent Sharon Cabusao Silva greetings ” Fiery and militant greetings on International Women’s Day!”
From Africa writes Mwambu Margaret Jane from Uganda: “Thank you so much and wishing you a happy women’s day, see you soon”. Yours, Mwambu Margaret Jane
Grüße zum Frauentag 2019 aus Dhaka/Bangladesh vom Socialist Women’s Forum
Brief des SWF Bangladesh 8 March 2019 als PDF Datei
Dear Sisters & Women Activists,
Solidarity greetings to all on International Women’s Day. On 109th International Women’s Day Socialist Women’s Forum organized a rally at 11am 8th March 2019. Also six leftist women’s organizations including Socialist Women’s Forum observed International Women’s Day jointly. Our call was ‘protest rape-sexual harassment-violence and come on the struggle to establish women with human dignity and equal right’. On this occasion we demanded ‘ Equal right on inheritance’; ‘Equal-wage on equal-work’; ‘Establish uniform civil code’; ‘Economic value of household works in GDP’; ‘Stop violence against women’; ‘Stop gender-base violence at work’ etc.
Please keep us informed about your activities, analysis and keep in touch.
Comradely yours
Shampa Basu
General Secretary/Central Committee
Socialist Women’s Forum
deepl Übersetzung:
Solidarische Grüße an Alle am Internationalen Frauentag. Am 109. Internationalen Frauentag organisierte das Sozialistische Frauenforum am 8. März 2019 um 11 Uhr eine Demonstration. Auch sechs linke Frauenorganisationen, darunter das Socialist Women’s Forum, haben gemeinsam am Internationalen Frauentag teilgenommen. Unser Aufruf lautete “Protest gegen sexuelle Belästigung – Gewalt und der Kampf um die Verwirklichung von Frauen mit Menschenwürde und Gleichberechtigung”. Bei dieser Gelegenheit forderten wir ‘ Gleiches Recht auf Erbschaft’; ‘Gleiches Entgelt für gleiche Arbeit’; ‘Einheitliches Zivilgesetzbuch’; ‘Wirtschaftlicher Wert von Haushaltsarbeiten im BIP’; ‘Gewalt gegen Frauen beenden’; ‘Geschlechterbezogene Gewalt am Arbeitsplatz beenden’ usw.
Bitte informieren Sie uns über Ihre Aktivitäten, Analysen und bleiben Sie in Kontakt.
Call of the World Women’s Movement for International Women’s Day 2019
European Coordinators of the
World Women‘s Conferences of Grassroot Women
Halinka Augustin/Netherlands and Susanne Bader/Germany
Call of the World Women’s Movement for International Women’s Day 2019
“In the struggle for liberation I felt freedom for the first time, that’s why I organized myself!”
In many countries of the world, women’s consciousness has awakened on a massive scale!
On International Women’s Day, the day of struggle of the world women’s movement, we look with pride at our revolutionary pioneers like Clara Zetkin! She wrote under the impression of the first socialist revolution in Russia in 1917, as a result of which the right to vote for women was won:
“The first dictatorship of the proletariat is a true pioneer of full social equality for women.“
In many countries, on International Women’s Day 2019, the women’s movement chooses the “strike” as a form of protest, following the example of the workers’ movement. The struggle for the liberation of women is on the agenda in the 21st century. Women of all social strata and classes are at odds with the capitalist system, its representatives in the bourgeois parties and governments. But the contradiction is often still limited to individual questions and demands and is non-binding in its form. In order to become a force that can change society, it needs clarity and organization.
The first theoretical seminar of the World Women’s Movement 2018 in India was an important contribution to this. In this strategy debate it became clear:
From Africa to Europe to Asia female workers fight organized for their equal rights and participation in social life. In India, Sri Lanka, female tea plantation workers are on strike for equal wages with their male colleagues. Female textile workers in Bangladesh are fighting union battles for wages they and their families can live on. Women farmers demand a right to land. The approximately 67 million domestic workers worldwide demand employment contracts and social security, protection against sexual violence and an end to lawlessness. Carers and nurses in the Netherlands and Germany fight for recognition of their work and higher wages.
Continue reading “Call of the World Women’s Movement for International Women’s Day 2019”
Now with Japanese subtitles: Film about the 2nd World Women’s Conference of grassroots women in 2016 in Kathmandu
2016 年ネパール、カトマンズ開催
第 2 回世界草の根女性会議
ドキュメンタリー映画の
日本語字幕版完成！
女性たちはどんな高い山でも登る！
手作りの開催で
ネパールのカトマンズで
6 日間に渡って繰り広げられた世界女性会
議のモットーだ。
48 か国から
1300 人が参加。
代表団は 40 か国から 74
、ボランテ ィアは 200
人以上に及んだ。 10 のワークショップでは参加者が女性運動の中心とな
る課題について議論。準備
段階 には 61
か国の女性団体が積極的にかかわった。
「世界女性会議運動が世界女性運動となった！」
(モニカ・ゲルトナー・エンゲル
世界女性会議の提唱者、コーディネーター)
6 日間 の 英語版
ドキュメンタリー
を インターネット
上で 発表。
2016 年にはドイツ語版が完成。
Women are climbing the highest mountains!
This was the motto of the six-days of the self-organized World Women’s Conference of grassroots women in Kathmandu, Nepal. 1,300 participants from 48 countries took part, including 74 delegates from 40 countries and more than 200 volunteer helpers. In ten workshops, the participants discussed central issues of the women’s movement. Women’s organisations from 61 countries were actively involved in the preparation programme.
Theoretical Seminar 2018: Key theses of the introductory speech by the Kurdish Women’s Movement
- About the Kurdistan Women’s Liberation Movement: Having a history of 40 years in total, the women within the Kurdish National Liberation Struggle are organising themselves autonomously since the early 1990’s. This process that started first within the guerrilla ranks by establishing a women’s guerrilla army today has reached a level of equal participation and representation in all parts of the struggle. Inside the women are organised autonomously and are the ones that take all decisions on women. But the ideological and practical struggle for true liberation continues as it aims to liberate both women and men from the patriarchal and capitalist-modernist mind of state. The women’s struggle within the Kurdish liberation movement marks a revolution within a revolution. It is based on the idea that true revolutions must be female; that liberation theories and ideologies need to take the issue of women’s liberation in it’s centre. The one who started first analysis on women’s status within the society and the liberation of women was the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah O He was abducted through a NATO-operation in 1999 and since then kept in solitary confinement on a prison island in Turkey. Sakine Cansiz, nom de guerre ‘Sara’, was one of the first female revolutionaries in Kurdistan. Cansiz was founding member of the PKK. She was imprisoned in 1980 and brutally tortured. By leading the resistance in the prisons against the colonialist Turkish state she became a living legend. She was at the same time a living history of the Kurdish women’s liberation struggle. On January 9, 2013 Sakine Cansiz, together with her comrades Fidan Dogan and Leyla Saylemez, was assassinated by the Turkish intelligence service in Paris/France.