In 2026, International Women’s Day takes place in a political context marked by increasing imperialist aggression toward oppressed nations.

The year began with the U.S. invasion of Venezuela, the kidnapping of President Maduro, and Donald Trump’s intervention in the government formed by Delcy Rodríguez. This was followed by U.S. threats against Mexico, Colombia, and Cuba. These attacks come from the same president who conceals damning files containing evidence of sexual abuse and other criminal acts carried out in collusion with political leaders, wealthy businessmen, diplomats, and members of the global elite on Jeffrey Epstein’s island.

Meanwhile, in the heart of the United States, ICE and other federal immigration agents have killed citizens who stood in solidarity with immigrant families being persecuted, criminalized, deported, or kidnapped and held in what amount to prison camps.

Just a few days ago, we watched in horror as the United States and Israel launched imperialist attacks against Iran, beginning with the massacre of over a hundred girls at an Iranian school and continuing with brutal incursions into Lebanon and throughout the region. Meanwhile, the ceasefire in Gaza is an illusion, as the atrocious genocide that has claimed the lives of over tens of thousands of children still persists.

It is for this reason that our international socialist feminist current, Bread and Roses/Pan y Rosas, calls on everyone to remember the roots of International Women’s Day — created by Clara Zetkin and the revolutionary internationalist socialists who declared “War on war!” during World War I.

Today, that slogan must become “Down with the imperialist war of the United States and Israel against Iran!” as well as “Imperialism out of Venezuela, down with the criminal blockade of Cuba, and stop the genocide in Palestine!”

We raise our voices around the world to say NO to the barbarism of imperialist capitalism against oppressed peoples, working classes, and women and children, whose lives it ravages with particular ferocity.

We say: NOT in our name! We do not need to be liberated, protected, or emancipated by missiles, bombings, invasions, and colonial interference. Their bombs can only bring death, misery, and more oppression for women everywhere.

We call on women in all countries, especially in the United States, to build a powerful internationalist movement that fights for the defeat of imperialism. Let us unite in this struggle, relying only on our own strength — that of the working class majority across the world — with full political independence from the parties and governments that represent the interests of those who exploit and oppress us.

The women of Minneapolis, especially teachers, have set a powerful example of solidarity and resistance against Trump’s repression. So, too, have the workers who paralyzed Italy with general strikes for Palestine; the hundreds of thousands of young people around the world who tore up their diplomas, occupied universities, and marched against their governments’ complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza; and the queer liberation movements that denounce the “pinkwashing” of their legitimate rights by Western powers. All of these are vital sources of strength for building a powerful anti-imperialist movement from below.

From the histories of struggle of Iranian and Palestinian women, of migrants across the globe, of Black women and Indigenous peoples, we draw inspiration for our fights today.

For our right to bread, and roses too.

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