“Look at all these beautiful children who are female in the world. And in addition to all the other outrages which I have referred to, in terms of children throughout the slums and shantytowns of the Third World, in addition to all the horrors that will be heaped on them—the actual living in garbage and human waste in the hundreds of millions as their fate, laid out before them, yes, even before they are born—there is, on top of this, for those children who are born female, the horror of everything that this will bring simply because they are female in a world of male domination. And this is true not only in the Third World. In 'modern' countries like the U.S. as well, the statistics barely capture it: the millions who will be raped; the millions more who will be routinely demeaned, deceived, degraded, and all too often brutalized by those who are supposed to be their most intimate lovers; the way in which so many women will be shamed, hounded and harassed if they seek to exercise reproductive rights through abortion, or even birth control; the many who will be forced into prostitution and pornography; and all those who—if they do not have that particular fate, and even if they achieve some success in this 'new world' where supposedly there are no barriers for women—will be surrounded on every side, and insulted at every moment, by a society and a culture which degrades women, on the streets, in the schools and workplaces, in the home, on a daily basis and in countless ways.”
BAsics—from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian, 1:10
Los Angeles Photo: revcom.us
Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City, on International Women's Day, these youth are part of 180,000 others who marched for hours to protest violence against women. Photo via tweet: @ieuan_counsell
Santiago, Chile
Santiago, Chile
Chilean women protesting U.S.-backed Israeli genocide hold swaddled dolls that represent the children killed in Gaza. Photo: AP
Madrid, Spain
Madrid, Spain
Madrid, Spain Photo: AP
Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey Photo: AP
Rome, Italy
Rome, Italy
Italy Photo: AP
Montevideo, Uruguay
Montevideo, Uruguay
Montevideo, Uruguay Photo: AP