Around the world, women and gender dissidents are facing patriarchal backlash led by Trump, Milei, and the far right, who deny gender-based violence and seek to attack the rights we have won through struggle in the streets. This is the conservative response to the advances made by the feminist movement in the heat of the fourth wave of struggles under the slogan #NiUnaMenos (Not One Less), which hides behind the battle against ‘gender ideology’.
Worldwide, the data on gender violence remains chilling: one woman was murdered every 10 minutes in 2023. These femicides were committed by partners, ex-partners or family members, according to the latest annual report published by UN Women. Gender-based violence is structural in the capitalist and patriarchal system. That is why it is women and gender dissidents from the working class and popular sectors who suffer most from the lack of public policies to end this scourge, whose most extreme expression is femicide and other hate crimes.
As we do every 25 November, we speak out against patriarchal violence in tribute to the sisters Minerva, Patria and María Teresa Mirabal, who were brutally murdered in 1960 by the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic. They were executed with particular cruelty because they were women and because they dared to confront the aberrations of a dictatorial government. On this date, we commemorate their struggle and their rebellion, which strengthens us in the fight against all forms of gender-based violence, especially that perpetrated by governments with their austerity plans that condemn us to be the poorest of the poor, accounting for the feminisation of poverty. One of the countries where violence is most extreme is Afghanistan. Four years into the Taliban regime, eight out of ten young people do not have access to the right to education, training and employment.
This 25 November, we denounce the genocide and systematic use of sexual, reproductive and gender-based violence by the state of Israel against Palestinian women, girls and children. We denounce Trump’s false ‘peace agreement’ and call on the peoples of the world to continue mobilising in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance, following in the footsteps of the general strike in Italy, the Global Sumud Flotilla and the hundreds of expressions throughout the world that have shown that, in the face of capitalist governments complicit with Netanyahu, the peoples of the world are rising up against genocide.
Part of this global mobilisation is reflected in the fact that Zhoran Mamdani, a pro-Palestinian activist, young Muslim, migrant and democratic socialist, is the new mayor of New York. This is a blow to the far-right Trump and Zionism at the heart of imperialist and financial capitalism. His victory expresses the mobilisations against Netanyahu and the genocide of the Palestinian people by the state of Israel, and against the policies of mass deportations, especially towards the Latin American community, in defence of women’s rights and dissidents. We call for this victory to be multiplied in new mobilisations across the country against the far-right Trump.
From the UIT-CI, we condemn the recent missile attacks carried out by the far-right Donald Trump in the Caribbean and the Pacific, and we say that this aggressive policy of US imperialism seeks to redouble the plundering of countries’ natural resources, the overexploitation of the peoples of the world, and to curb the mass mobilisation that threatens the capitalist system as a whole. In the context of the capitalist crisis, we call on women and gender dissidents, who are the poorest of the poor and the first to be affected, to mobilise against the austerity plans of capitalist governments.
On 25 November, let us make our voices heard against patriarchal and capitalist violence, which mainly affects women and dissidents from the working class and popular sectors. Let our collective cry be heard: Stop sexist violence, not one more, governments are responsible.
