amazighprincex:

[A comic in four panels. The first panel reads: “March 8 began as International Working Women’s Day. But bourgeois institutions attempt to remove the content of the class struggle.” In an illustration, a UN member crosses the word “Working” off of a sign that reads “International Working Women’s Day,” saying “All women have basically the same interests, right? Forget that ‘working class unity’ nonsense.”

In the second panel, Madeleine Albright is speaking to an irritated-looking woman wearing hijab. Albright says: “Perhaps I justified the death of your child at the hands of my government. But fundamentally we have the same interests, as women. Sister.” The other woman replies: “You are not my sister, Ms. Albright.” Albright asks, “Like my pin?” The woman replies, “No.”

In the third panel, Hillary Clinton is speaking to a Black woman who has her eyes closed and a hand raised, palm-out, in a “don’t talk to me” gesture. Clinton says: “I facilitate the imperialist domination of your country so we can super-exploit you, but we are both women, so—” The woman responds: “Hillary. Don’t even.”

The fourth panel reads: “Working class women of the world~ we unite with all the exploited and oppressed masses to smash feudalism, capitalism & imperialism~ globally! An illustration shows women of multiple ethnicities clasping hands within a circle giving off sun-like rays.]

marxvx:

steph-mcmillan:

Comic #3 for International Working Women’s Day.

International Working Women’s Day was started by the Socialist Party of America to commemorate a wave of spontaneous strikes by first- and second-generation Jewish, Russian, and Italian immigrant teenage girls (as in like, they were 16 years old) in the textile mills of New York City. This was the “Uprising of 20,000” and was one of the most infectious displays of labor militancy in the 20th century. A couple years later Clara Zeitkin, a German Marxist who would be arrested several times for helping to incite the 1919 communist revolution in Germany, brought it to the floor of the Second International and the first Women’s Day celebrations in Europe were held by communist parties and communist women.

This isn’t even like “oh yeah well maybe it kinda had the phrase ‘working women’ in there originally.” It was started by socialists to commemorate daring strike actions led by newly-immigrated teenage girls and then formalized by the international communist movement. Fuck the UN’s tepid IWD celebrations.