While the European Union, created on the false pretext of “peace and freedom”, votes to mobilize 800 billion euro of public funding for the plan to “Re-Arm” Europe, women workers still worry about the “bread” of their family and have no access to contemporary public and free health care, education and limited access to quality free time, arts and vacation.

While the industries in the European Union turn their production from useful products into arms and bullets, working women are still blocked from access to adequate maternity leave, overall maternity protection rights, decent salaries and humane working hours.

While the imperialist organizations of US, NATO and the EU, with their antagonism for profits and raw materials in burder of the people, prepare their war machines, working women fight to keep their houses against the vulturous funds, to pay the rising cost of rents and increasing taxation, to get by the month despite the increase living cost and to survive despite the lack of protective measures against earthquakes, fires, floods.

While the sirens of war are starting to get louder, working women worry daily about their ability to provide education for their children, healthcare for the elderly, a safe environment to live in.

While tanks and TNT are being transfered across the countries, working women feel unsafe due to the violence embodied in the society by a system that exploits the people and cultivates fascicm, racism and inequality as its core principles.

This is not the world we want to live in! We will continue our fight against exploitation and inequality for a world where all people will live and produce in prosperity and peace.

We salute the working women and the unionists for being in the frontline of the struggle for better working and living conditions. For not staying silent against mistreatment and inequality. For rising up for what is fair and right!

We salute the mothers who fight for a better future for their children. We salute the single mothers who work and care for their children bearing on their shoulders all the weight of the world. We salute the Palestinian woman and mother who is the embodiment of heroism in our times.

We remain inspired by the victorious struggles of the women throughout the 20th century, from the strikers in the Lawrence Textile Strike in 1912 (Bread and Roses Strike), mainly of immigrant workers from more than 50 nationalities who joined together in an organized and long strike to the women’s strike of the first Russian Revolution on March 8th, 1917 who took to the streets demanding Bread and Peace, that led to the first Soviet State on 1922 during the times of Lenin to establish March 8th as the Women’s Day to commemorate their contribution to the Socialist Revolution.