In fact, it is not easy to go out with certainty and firmness in the troubled political landscape that is taking place around this day; that is, to maintain the essence of International Working Women’s Day. In other words, take the witness of what has been built for decades with the courage, strength, courage and commitment of socialist women. Although more than a hundred years have passed since the first day of working women, the political project of those revolutionary women, the socialist revolution on a global level, is still alive. In Euskal Herria, there are not few initiatives that are emerging in favor of the political empowerment of working women: dynamics that provide women with political capacity through feminism, as well as those that demonstrate that working women can be at the forefront of the organization of the working class. Thus, we look with satisfaction at the spread of the feminist movement of workers, the contributions of those who give it all day by day in defense of the interests of the proletariat, that is, they make us see the liberation of all the oppressed sectors of the working class ever closer.

In the same vein, in the education that is our field of policy we have to do: strengthen the Feminist Movement within the labor organization, and enhance the different expressions of the student movement with revolutionary women. To this end, we consider essential, on the one hand, the construction of networks of solidarity between proletarian women of the educational centers: Students, creating solidarity relations based on the care of workers of the educational centers (cleaners, cozy, scholarships...) that cannot breathe wages. On the other hand, identifying and influencing in practice real mechanisms to end the sexual division of labor that we often reproduce in our militancy settings. In short, the articulation of the defense of the working class of the educational centers is built in the care relationships and that the women have an active and primary involvement in them.

Following these objectives or tasks, we identified March 8 as a day or tool to take steps on the road to the political empowerment of working women. In this sense, the student organization will support and enhance initiatives based on local conditions, and on other occasions, along with the development of our own activities. As far as the university level is concerned, our political duty is to reinforce and support the approaches for March 8 developed by feminist groups that have worked over the years, who are the main comrades and comrades that we have on the way to analyze and change the reality of the university workers, and that allow women to be at the forefront of the student movement. In this sense, we call on the students to participate in the different activities (hardbass, talks, mergers, demonstrations) that the feminist groups will organize around March 8.

On the other hand, as far as secondary schools are concerned, our contribution will be to carry out the feminist strike of students. The feminist strike of the students will be an instrument of struggle that adapts to the conditions of each place. Thus, this stop of capitalist education will use it to deny the repressive contents that force us to devour and nourish our political practice: within the strategy that the working class will liberate us, to reflect on how feminist struggle and feminist strike should be, to know the history of the movement of working women, to analyze the role of strike in the revolutionary process and to channel the student blocks for the demonstration, for example.

Therefore, on March 8, students will be in the forefront of initiatives that enhance the organizational forms of the proletariat.

Long live the students’ struggle!

Long live the struggle of working women!