International Working Women’s Day 2025 Around the World

Edgar Lee

United States

A red march took place in Seattle attended by organizations from across the country which raised the red flag and internationalist slogans. Workshops also took place on the significance of organizing working class women for socialist revolution, the dangers of postmodernism to the women’s question, and in commemoration of the recently deceased founder of the Brazilian revolutionary newspaper A Nova Democracia, Professor Fausto Arruda. The demonstration also extended revolutionary greetings to the MFP, the Popular Women’s Movement of Brazil, celebrating their role organizing the combative women of the Battle of Barro Branco.

Turkey

The Captive Partisans, the Purple-Red Collective, and Yeni Demokrasi [New Democracy], a Turkish democratic newspaper, published statements in celebration of the holiday.

Thousands of people demonstrated in Istanbul, with New Democratic Women being a participating organization, chanting slogans such as “March 8^th is red, it will stay red,” “Woman, life, freedom,” “Let the dungeons be destroyed, freedom to the prisoners,” “Women to the streets, to freedom,” “Long live women’s solidarity,” and “Long live March 8, International Working Women’s Day.”

New Democratic Women also participated in the March 8 demonstration in Dersim.

India

The Revolutionary Students’ Front held a demonstration in Kolkata, wielding the slogan “women hold up half the sky!”

Philippines

Several protests were held across the Philippines, led by women’s organization Gabriela. The International League of People’s Struggles and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, among others, published statements marking International Working Women’s Day while the New People’s Army commemorated Communist women in the Philippines and in particular remembered Ka Maria Malaya.

Brazil

The Popular Women’s Movement (MFP) published a March 8 bulletin, covering the Agrarian Revolution, violence against women in Brazil, and the Palestinian national resistance. The MFP also announced it is releasing the first issue of its magazine Novo Auroroa. MFP also held a celebration in solidarity with striking school cafeteria workers in Pernambuco state and a mobilization in support of the struggle against police violence in Parana

A Nova Democracia, the popular and democratic newspaper of Brazil, republished an interview with a Popular Women’s Movement member and a 2016 interview with Popular Women’s Movement leader Sandra Lima.

Colombia

Combative mobilizations took place in Bogota.

Argentina

Combative mobilizations took place across the country, clashing with police outside the governmental palace.

Bengladesh

Multiple combative demonstrations demanding punishment for those who commit rape and torture against women and girls in the country. The demonstrations clashed with police who were attempting to bar the way of the people to institutions of the old-state.

Norway

Demonstrations were held in several cities, with the League of Poor Peasants, Brazil saluted and Anti-Imperialist League being propagated.

Finland

A large demonstration took place in Helsinki, with 10,000 participants and a contingent of anti-imperialists.

Switzerland

A multiple-thousand-strong march took place in Switzerland. Slogans chanted included “Woman, life, freedom,” “Hail international solidarity,” and “Anti-Capitalist.”

Germany

The Red Women’s Committees published a statement calling on people to hit the streets for March 8, and to “follow the example of our comrades in Brazil,” touching on the work of the MFP.

A march was held in Berlin and was harshly attacked by the police when Palestinian flags and pro-Palestinian slogans were wielded. Marches also occurred with red blocks of revolutionaries and internationalists demonstrating for Palestinian liberation in Leipzig, Dortmund, Cologne, Hamburg, and Bremen.

Sweden

Communist Association published a statement entitled “Long Live International Working Women’s Day!,” covering revolutionary movements in the Third World as models for woman organizing. They also produced a report on propaganda work as well as a demonstration in Stockholm.

Italy

New Hegemony [Nuova Egemonia] published a statement stressing the necessity of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism for the emancipation of women, denouncing post-modernism and feminism.

Great Britain

The Anti-Imperialist Front participated in the International Working Women’s Day march in London, and issued a statement entitled “No Liberation without Revolution!” A portion of their statement reads: “The path to victory in the struggle for the liberation of women can only be found in the united struggle for the liberation of the exploited working classes and the oppressed people of the world.”

Greece

Mobilizations took place in multiple cities throughout Greece, with the Communist Party of Greece (M-L) raising the slogan in Athens and Thessaloniki: “Women of the people on the front lines against the system that sacrifices your life and rights!”

France

A massive demonstration took place in Paris, resulting in clashes with the police and batons and tear gas being used against the demonstrators. Demonstrations also took place with the participation of the League of Young Revolutionaries in multiple cities across the country.

Spain

The Revolutionary Committees published a statement, called “Towards a Revolutionary Women’s Movement,” raising the slogans of “Revolutionary women, step forward! Alone, we can’t do anything; together, we will do everything!” and “Proletarian feminism for communism!”

Flyers were handed out by the Revolutionary Committees at a march in Madrid, and a march in Valéncia was held with the banner “Proletarian feminism for communism” being raised.

Image: Demonstrators clash with police in Bengladesh

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