International Working Women’s Day 2025
A Socialist Feminist Response to War and the Right’s Sexist Attacks
Saturday, March 8, 2025, Noon Pacific / 3pm Eastern (register here)
Venue: SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W Hastings St, Vancouver, Room 1530
(or online from anywhere in Canada)
Join us in a national discussion about why a socialist feminist perspective is needed, more than ever, to respond to growing militarism, threats of war and to the right’s attacks on women, LGBTQ+ and trans people.
The socialists who pioneered International Working Women’s Day understood that fighting for women’s rights and fighting militarism, nationalism, imperialism and capitalism went hand in hand. Inter-imperialist conflict is a defining feature of our era. The authoritarian right is on the rise and has momentum. “Strong man” regimes, as the name suggests, enthusiastically lean into patriarchal gender roles. The nuclear family is freshly promoted as the foundation for a stable society.
The fight for women’s rights is not secondary to the fight for socialist change. It’s part and parcel of it. With the right on the rise, it’s absolutely essential that the workers’ movement internationally takes on its necessary historic role as the tribune of the oppressed. This means standing strongly against all attacks on women’s, LGBTQ+ and migrant rights and actively leading a fightback against them. This is essential for ensuring the unity of the multi-gendered, multi-racial working class, which, because of its economic power, is both the force most able to push back against the right, and the only force capable of transforming the world.
Please register here for our International Working Women’s Day event on March 8th.