A-Infos (en) Brazil, UNIPA: International Working Women's Day (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

This March 8th, we remember all the social fighters of our past and 
present who champion the struggle for revolutionary unionism in 
territorial, union, popular, and student movements. March 8th is another 
day of struggle and denunciation; within a capitalist, racist, and 
patriarchal society, we need to talk about the social conditions of 
working women, especially Black women. Men and women all participate in 
capitalist society, however, we are not affected by capitalism in the 
same way. Black women occupy the least prestigious and lowest-paid 
positions in Brazil. According to DIEESE (2025), in Brazil, the average 
income of Black women is 53% lower than that of white men. This means R$ 
30,800 less per year in women's income. Among those with higher 
education, the average difference was R$ 58,000 annually. According to 
DIEESE, 24 million households (30%) in Brazil are headed by Black women.

The 6x1 schedule in women's lives and unpaid work

Although we belong to the same class as our male counterparts, we are 
exploited in different ways. As an example, we can cite: the exhausting 
workdays, which we can't even call a double shift, considering that many 
of us have 4 or 5 work shifts that overlap, such as paid work, domestic 
work, maternal work, and caregiving for family members, which we have 
already discussed in other communications.

These conditions reach an extreme when we think about women who work the 
6x1 schedule, because the only day they would have to "rest" and "relax" 
is spent organizing the week with clean school uniforms, meals prepared 
for the rest of the days, clothes to wash, fold, and iron.

The state and the bourgeoisie profit from women's labor, as we nourish 
and sustain a large part of the working class. Domestic work contributes 
to the employer's profit. But it is not recognized as work for capital, 
because this work that occurs within the walls of our homes is not 
remunerated, and therefore is also largely invisible and devalued.

For the lives of working women! We want to live!

In addition to the entire context of precarious work, we need to draw 
attention to the advance of conservatism, which carries with it 
patriarchal values in which men need to dominate women. Our society is 
also organized around this; we can see this when men earn more than 
women performing the same jobs, when all domestic work becomes a burden 
for women, when caring for family members is seen as a feminine activity.

We also understand that the nature of the State is patriarchal; the 
State must also be held accountable when it allows women to be violated, 
when it does not prioritize security policies for women, and when it 
grants immunity to aggressors against women, or even when it relegates 
women's issues to a secondary position.

Violence against women is a reflection of a society that privileges men. 
The number of femicides occurring in Brazil is increasingly alarming. 
According to the Annual Report on Femicides in Brazil, conducted by the 
State University of Londrina, in 2025 there were 6,094 completed and 
attempted femicides against women. This represents a considerable 
increase in cases in every month from one year to the next, totaling a 
34% increase in 2025 compared to the previous year, since 2024 totaled 
5,150 completed and attempted femicides.

We have called for street protests that are often organized by political 
parties that claim to be against violence against women, but transform 
these moments of revolt and denunciation into festive demonstrations. We 
have nothing to celebrate; we have much pent-up anger in our hearts, and 
we need to shout for our lives. Feelings of insecurity are not uncommon 
in our relationships, of which we are often victims when we don't want 
to continue the relationship or when we decide not to give up on ourselves.

Therefore, we cannot rely solely on public policies that, while 
inhibiting violence against women, fail to provide us with complete 
security of movement. Thus, we believe in the self-organization of 
working-class women, with the creation of Women's Self-Defense 
Committees, in which women feel empowered to denounce the various forms 
of violence they experience and learn self-defense techniques that 
guarantee their lives. It is also necessary for our male working-class 
comrades to reflect on their masculine upbringing and recognize the 
points where they also reproduce violence against women, and to 
strengthen their female comrades in their struggles, whether by creating 
spaces for discussion or by individually studying how their masculinity 
can be reconstructed to the point where their female comrades feel safe 
within their own class. The safety of working-class women must be 
guaranteed by the class to which they belong.

This March 8th, we reinforce our belief in the potential of the 
revolutionary fury of working-class women, mainly because we understand 
that the struggle of women is always a collective struggle. Women are in 
the trenches fighting for land and housing, they are in the struggle of 
unions, of popular movements, and increasingly need to put the 
collective struggle for the security of their lives on the line.

For women's self-determination!
We want to live!
The people's struggle is the women's struggle!
Dare to fight, dare to win!
For the revolutionary fury of women!

https://uniaoanarquista.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/dia-internacional-da-mulher-trabalhadora/
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