Workers and Revolutionaries Commemorate International Working Women’s Day Across the Country

Read our editorial on International Working Women’s Day 2026 here.

On March 8, workers and revolutionaries convened across the country for International Working Women’s Day, holding demonstrations, educational seminars, and cultural events.

In Seattle, WA, over 100 people participated in the 3rd consecutive IWWD march hosted by Puget Sound Revolutionary Youth and the Puget Sound Struggle Committees. The demonstrators took the streets in the working-class neighborhood of Rainier Beach, hoisting posters featuring Chinese Communist revolutionary Jiang Qing, Palestinian resistance fighter Leila Khaled, American journalist Anna Louise Strong, Black Liberation Army fighter Assata Shakur, Filipino Communist revolutionary Wilma Tiamzon, Brazilian Popular Women’s Movement leader Sandra Lima, and Peruvian Communist revolutionaries Comrade Norah, Edith Lagos, and Comrade Laura.

During the march, participants burned the American flag and decapitated an effigy of Commander-in-Chief of U.S. imperialism Donald Trump. Speeches were given denouncing imperialist violence against women in the Third World and honoring the revolutionary women’s movements in Brazil, Peru, Turkey, India, and the Philippines.

In San Antonio, TX, Right to Rebel San Antonio hosted an event for IWWD discussing the necessity of socialist revolution for the emancipation of women and the struggle against reformism and postmodernism in the women’s movement. Right to Rebel later participated in an IWWD march with around 200 participants, taking the streets and agitating for socialist revolution.

In both Nashville and Memphis, TN, activist groups put on educational seminars for young workers, which examined the history of women’s oppression and its origin with the emergence of class society. The seminars placed a particular emphasis on explaining the economic foundations of women’s oppression under capitalism, including the exclusion of domestic labor from socialized production and the fundamental link between private property and women’s oppression. The seminars also took up the important task of combating widespread confusion regarding the women’s question generated by postmodernism and identity politics.

At the conclusion of the events, workers and activists discussed the need for socialist revolution toward the abolition of inequality between the sexes, the integration of working women into the revolutionary movement, and the necessity of the reconstituted Communist Party to lead the revolutionary movement.

In Portland, OR, around 20 activists gathered on IWWD for a screening of The Red Detachment of Women, a film depicting female combatants of the Chinese Red Army during the People’s War in China in the 1930s. The film screening was organized by Portland Anti-Imperialist Action.

In Oakland, CA, a cultural event for IWWD was organized by the Bay Area Revolutionary Women’s Committee and attended by roughly 200 people. The event took place in a park and featured speeches, songs, and other activities for the attendees. Several organizations attended the event, including the Bay Area League of Class Conscious Workers, Revolutionary Student Organization—Santa Cruz, and Revolutionary Student Organization—Davis.

In Santa Cruz, CA, the Revolutionary Student Organization—Santa Cruz hosted two events in the lead-up to IWWD, including a mass meeting discussing the economic foundations of women’s oppression under capitalism and a screening of The Red Detachment of Women.

In Davis, CA, a study of the document “Postmodernism and Feminism: Individualism and Bourgeois Relativism in the Service of Imperialism” by the Popular Women’s Movement in Brazil was held by Revolutionary Student Organization—Davis.

In West Lafayette, IN, activists from the West Lafayette Revolutionary Student Front hosted a presentation discussing the oppression of women through the international sex trade, with a particular focus on the recent revelations about the politically-connected finance monopolist and serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein. The activists discussed how these abuses against working women and girls are the product of the imperialist system and how they demonstrate the necessity of overthrowing it.

Later on in the presentation, RSF activists discussed the historic gains of women under socialism in the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China as well as the role of women’s struggles in the revolutionary movements in Peru, Turkey, India, and the Philippines today.

In an undisclosed location, a presentation for International Working Women’s Day was held discussing the contributions of Communist women to the International Workers’ Movement with 25 attendees. The presentation covered the lives and contributions of female militants throughout history, including Nadezhda Krupskaya, Jiang Qing, and Comrade Laura. The presentation concluded with a call to action for attendees to get involved in the struggle for the emancipation of women and socialist revolution.

Image: Revolutionaries in Seattle march in commemoration of International Working Women’s Day.

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