A-Infos (en) Germany, Dia Platform: Out to the Feminist International Day of Struggle! -- 99 femicides in 2025! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

March 8th is not a holiday. It is a day on which we collectively make 
visible what is otherwise normalized, relativized, or individualized. 
Worldwide, one in three women and one in three girls experience physical 
or sexual violence in their lifetime. Queer, trans, agender, and 
non-binary people are particularly affected. In Germany, a woman was 
killed by her (ex-)partner almost every third day in 2025.

Violence against women and TINA (No Alternative To Women) people is 
rooted in material conditions. It arises where dependencies are 
produced-be it through housing as a commodity, poorly paid wage labor, 
or unpaid, invisible care work. Many women and TINA people remain in 
abusive relationships because they cannot afford to leave. The 
capitalist system needs the heteronormative nuclear family as a site of 
unpaid reproductive labor and to stabilize private property. It needs 
sexualized bodies, emotional availability as a resource, and competition 
instead of solidarity. The capitalist state creates the material and 
ideological conditions under which patriarchal violence-even 
femicide-becomes possible.

In neoliberalism, corporations adorn themselves with feminist slogans 
while exploiting workers. "Girlboss" feminism celebrates women in 
leadership positions, while BIPOC women and TINA (No Alternative) people 
continue to hold the lowest-paid and most precarious jobs.

Representation is celebrated as if the gender of the boss makes any 
difference. Instead of addressing the root causes of violence and 
domination, liberal feminists demand harsher punishments and more 
police-appealing to the supposedly failing state and merely desiring 
reforms to its racist, patriarchal institutions and structures.

The feminist struggle must not be a matter of symbolic politics, but 
must demand real, material change. This means, among other things: 
socializing housing, collectivizing care work, reducing working hours 
with full wage compensation, self-organized protective structures 
instead of police, solidarity networks instead of isolation, and direct 
democracy in workplaces and neighborhoods instead of representative 
politics. The feminist revolution is a long-term process of building 
power from below, in the form of feminist strikes that systematically 
paralyze production and reproduction.

We must organize rent struggles and squatting to truly remove housing 
from commodification. Self-organization in care, education, and retail 
is necessary because patriarchal exploitation is particularly visible 
there. We need autonomous safe spaces and collectively addressing 
patriarchal violence. Organized political education that systematically 
analyzes and names violence is essential. We need a practice that truly 
embodies feminist solidarity.

In these times of war, patriarchal violence emerges not as a side 
effect, but as an integral part of the logic of war. Around 676 million 
women and girls currently live in military combat zones, a historic 
high. Systematic, gender-based violence is not accidental, but rather a 
strategy: Sexualized violence is deliberately used to humiliate, 
destroy, and control communities. Violence against trans people, 
non-binary individuals, or A-gender people is far less documented, but 
its brutality is equally likely.

(TW: Mention of sexual violence)

In Sudan, comrades report mass rapes, gang rapes, and sexual slavery by 
militias as part of ethno-political violence, while protective and 
support structures collapse.

Gender-based forms of violence are also documented in Ukraine, 
Palestine, Rojava, and Iran. The logic is similar: Armed groups 
instrumentalize nationalist notions of masculinity to break communities, 
symbolically degrade "enemy" bodies, and enforce patriarchal dominance, 
especially where state order is fragile.

War is thus an expression of imperialist power struggles in which cis 
men are privileged as fighters and protectors, while women and TINA (No 
Alternative) people are systematically made vulnerable. Patriarchy and 
militarism are mutually reinforcing: where social order collapses, male 
dominance is often enforced with extreme brutality to regain control 
over territories, resources, and bodies.

This violence is structured in both racist and colonial ways. Which 
lives are considered worthy of protection is determined by global power 
relations: violence in colonial regions is normalized or dehumanized, 
while in Europe it is scandalized. Imperialism continues to operate in 
militarization, the production of enemy images, and the devaluation of 
certain bodies. The feminist struggle must therefore consider 
patriarchy, militarism, racism, and colonialism together.

As anarchists, we will consequently not only condemn symptoms or demand 
abstract peace. We want to attack the logic of war itself and understand 
patriarchal violence as a structural, system-maintaining element, and 
create conditions under which war, patriarchy, and capitalism cannot be 
reproduced!

On March 8, we mourn all those murdered in the feminist struggle. We 
believe the survivors and name the perpetrators as well as the 
structures that protect them. We fight for all whose lives are 
constantly threatened: for queer people who are attacked, for BIPOC 
women and TINA people without papers, for all whose bodies are used as 
battlegrounds for patriarchal violence. This day is not a marketing 
event or an appeal to the powerful. It is a day of struggle. Liberation 
will not be granted to us; we must fight for it collectively. There is 
no equality within exploitation.

For a world without domination, capitalism, and patriarchal ideology. 
For a life of dignity. For the anarcha-feminist revolution!

https://www.dieplattform.org/2026/03/08/erklaerung-zum-8-maerz-2026/#more-3543
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