Mexico—To celebrate International Working Women’s Day, PLP attended a conference on violence against women. It took place at a kindergarten in an industrial area where Progressive Labor Party has done political work for three decades, and where we are well known as organizers. The school’s principal sent out the invitations after a woman was killed nearby.
She invited the mothers of school families to the conference, which focused on fighting sexism.  About 50 young mothers between the ages of 20 and 25 attended.
During the meetings we spoke about the Party document: “Communism and the Struggle Against Sexism”, which notes that the key to ending violence against women is to struggle against capitalism. The other main discussion was around the book: Caliban and the Witch in which the writer Silvia Federici speaks about the division of labor between women and men in child rearing and earning wages. The discussions were well received by the women workers in attendance. While the questions asked were fairly timid, the women seemed to seriously identify with the Party’s explanation of how sexism functions under capitalism.
At the end, the principal invited us back for future talks, and issues of Challenge were distributed along with Road to Revolution IV and Communism and the Struggle Against Sexism.
It is important that all women and men to start organizing to defend themselves against the violence directed against women workers because it is an instrument of capitalism that terrorizes, and super-exploits this section of our class. The responsibility to change this unequal society lies in our hands. We must reeducate youth and workers to care for each other and see each other as true class sisters and brothers. This will guarantee that all families understand we must change this society for one that serves the interests of our class and not the interests of the rich. It is the ruling class that is guilty of all the violence, discrimination, murders, kidnappings, sexual assaults and super exploitation of women workers.
Join the international communist PLP and fight for an egalitarian society. Let’s get rid of capitalism and the traitorous rulers that are guilty of so much violence, unemployment, hunger and misery in Mexico and worldwide. Long live  communism!