Today IWA recognizes the grave atrocities brought against women due to US imperialism and global capitalism - two plagues which lead women into precarious jobs around the world, which promote education systems that teach repression, and which institutionalize violence against women as part and parcel to global plunder and greed.

We know the Afghan people will be faced with new challenges, since the Taliban’s swift assertion to power.  We must continue to denounce any attempt for U.S. imperialism or other global powers to impose its control in the region, whose only interest is not about bringing about democracy and liberation for their people, but about geopolitical control and corporate interests.

We rise against wars of aggression wherever they occur. Cases abound of how wars of aggression or intervention always trample upon women’s rights and women’s bodies, where rape becomes a heinous instrument to subjugate the population and render the populace, particularly women, into slavery and servitude. 

Nanay Mameng was one of the first recipients of IWA’s Women of Valor award, in recognition of her courage and contribution to the struggle towards national democracy and women’s emancipation in the Philippines.

La Revolución Cubana ha sido una inspiración para los pueblos pobres y oprimidos del planeta, incluidas las mujeres oprimidas y las personas de género durante muchas décadas. El pueblo cubano sigue luchando por un mundo libre de toda forma de opresión y sectarismo que se deriva de la sed de lucro capitalista e imperialista.

La Révolution cubaine a été une source d’inspiration pour les peuples pauvres et opprimés de la planète, y compris les femmes et les personnes de genre opprimés pendant de nombreuses décennies. Le peuple cubain continue de se battre pour un monde libéré de toutes les formes d’oppression et de sectarisme qui découlent de la soif de profit capitaliste et impérialiste.

The Cuban Revolution has been an inspiration to poor and oppressed peoples including women and gender oppressed for many decades who continue to fight for a world free from all forms of oppression and bigotry, which stems from capitalist and imperialist greed for profits.

The victims of the killing were not rebel soldiers or carrying any weapons, they were members of the community and were simply harvesting abaca to provide for their community.

Palestine may be physically far from us, but the support system to the facist Israeli state is at our front door. In the United States, there are countless institutions that bolster apartheid — from the Jewish National Fund that helps settlers colonize Palestine, to Hewlett-Packard that provides computers and technology to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The United States continues to provide the Israeli government with over $3 billion a year in military aid. That’s money taken from our pockets to commit flagrant human rights abuses.

On this, May 1, 2021, IWA recognizes the decisive power of workers and women to struggle against facism, imperialism and patriarchy and we applaud the struggle of women workers during the last year of the global pandemic.

On this March 8, the International Women’s Alliance commemorates over 100 years of the struggle of working women demanding better working conditions, gender equality and national liberation.  We continue to uplift the voices of the most exploited and oppressed people around the world, the women laborers, domestic servants, landless peasants, farm workers, factory workers, urban poor, and the unemployed.