International Women's Day

New York

Harlem residents and artists, a woman from a Queens shelter, groups of college students from Columbia-Barnard, NYU and Pace University—fresh from hearing Sunsara Taylor at NYU. Sorority sisters from upstate. High school students. People from different backgrounds spoke bitterness, exchanging experience and called for people to "join the total revolution." The march stopped at American Apparel, the military recruiters and the welfare office. People carried signs in English and Farsi "standing with our sisters and brothers resisting in Iran." People defied hostile nationalists who declared that such a multinational march should not happen in Harlem and certainly shouldn't fight for the liberation of women. In fact the march drew in MORE people through all this.

After the march, people packed into a cafe for poetry and readings, including a message from a young Dominican woman responding to the call from the March 8 Women’s Organization (Iran-Afghanistan). Carl Dix of the RCP polemicized against arguments of fighting for "manhood" or for "putting women on a pedestal," putting forward the need to fight for the emancipation of all humanity, and for women being fighters in every sphere. Revolution correspondent Annie Day dug deeper into the importance of joining the total revolution and the leadership of Bob Avakian.

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"What we see in contention here with Jihad on the one hand and McWorld/McCrusade on the other hand, are historically outmoded strata among colonized and oppressed humanity up against historically outmoded ruling strata of the imperialist system. These two reactionary poles reinforce each other, even while opposing each other. If you side with either of these 'outmodeds,' you end up strengthening both."

Bob Avakian, Chairman of the RCP,USA From the talk, “Why We’re in the Situation We’re in Today… And What to Do About It: A Thoroughly Rotten System and the Need for Revolution”

"In a world marked by profound class divisions and social inequality, to talk about “democracy”— without talking about the class nature of that democracy and which class it serves—is meaningless, and worse. So long as society is divided into classes, there can be no 'democracy for all': one class or another will rule, and it will uphold and promote that kind of democracy which serves its interests and goals. The question is: which class will rule and whether its rule, and its system of democracy, will serve the continuation, or the eventual abolition, of class divisions and the corresponding relations of exploitation, oppression and inequality."

Bob Avakian

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