Revolutionary Greetings to our sisters in struggle!
On this International Working Women’s Day, Women Democratic Front (WDF) honors all our sisters and comrades who have given their lives to the cause of freedom against oppression, exploitation, and patriarchal violence. We salute the women resisting the capitalist-patriarchal world order across the globe. We commemorate the leaders of the women’s liberation struggle—past and present—whose courage continues to inspire resistance.
The past few years have deepened the crisis of global capitalism, with its worst effects falling upon the most vulnerable. From the ongoing Palestinian genocide to the ruthless exploitation of the people in Congo, the global imperialist order thrives on destruction, dispossession, and violence. Women across the world bear the brunt—not only at the hands of the ruling elite but also from those who should stand beside them.
Today, we remember our sisters in Palestine, resisting the cruel and unjust occupation of their land, bodies, and spirit. We stand in unwavering solidarity with the women of Afghanistan, fighting for freedom, joy, and the right to live with dignity. We express our solidarity with our sisters in Somalia, who continue to resist the devastating impacts of neoliberalism, imperialist wars, and patriarchal oppression—all of which have plunged their people into perpetual crisis while the ruling elites and global powers profit from their suffering. Their struggle for survival, dignity, and self-determination is our struggle.
We stand firmly with the women of Pakistan—the mothers in Balochistan demanding the return of their disappeared sons, the women of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa demanding peace and an end to bloodshed, the mothers in Parachinar pleading for relief for their children, and the women of Sindh, Punjab, Waseb, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Kashmir, who continue their fight for justice. Their fight is our fight. Their resistance is our resistance.
We acknowledge the relentless labour of women that sustains our world. Along with them, we acknowledge all women whose labour is exploited every day in homes, in fields, in factories and in offices. We remember the countless women murdered last year by the machinery of global patriarchal violence—through wars, state oppression, terror, religious fundamentalism, sectarianism, and the hands of fathers, husbands, lovers, and partners. We mourn the Palestinian people mercilessly slaughtered in the ongoing Palestinian genocide. In their memory, we renew our vow: our fight for women’s emancipation and people’s liberation will not waver—today or in the struggles yet to come.
Thousands of people in Pakistan have borne the brutal weight of state oppression in the last year. We witness the state’s violent negligence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, the ruthless theft of Sindh’s water under the guise of corporate farming, and the mass displacement of farmers in Punjab and Waseb in the name of so-called development that is crushing the people. We stand in solidarity with all those fighting for their right to land, life, and dignity. We witnessed the stripping of democratic rights across the country by the current regime.
We recognize that the violence inflicted on our bodies and our lands is one and the same. The destruction of the environment for profit has led to the collapse of ecosystems, mass displacement, and the extinction of life forms. Capitalist patriarchy has pushed the planet to the brink—threatening any chance of sustaining life in the years to come.
We must remember the socialist origins of International Working Women’s Day and continue to celebrate it in its true revolutionary spirit. This day is a reminder that our struggle is not just against patriarchy, but also against capitalism, class oppression, and the exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.
We organize because we must resist and heal from the wounds inflicted on our bodies, minds and hearts by capitalism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, feudalism, and militarism—all of which are deeply entangled with patriarchy. We call upon women of this country to rise up and join us in the fight for an alternative world—a world where our liberation is not built on another’s exploitation. Let us join hands and fight for an egalitarian, just, and liberated future!