We are the Palestinian women who confront, arms in hand, the oppression of Zionism, leading the Third Intifada alongside the peoples of the Middle East. We are the courageous women of Turkey; we are Renee Nicole Good, insurgents in the U.S. defending our immigrant brothers and sisters; we are Masha Amini, insurgents against the theocratic dictatorship of Iran; we are the mothers and families searching for their loved ones in Mexico; we are the Serbian women; we are the Ukrainian partisans against Putin's invasion; we are the women of Nepal and Bangladesh overthrowing dictatorships; we are the Moroccan women defeating patriarchal monarchies; we are the French women defending social gains; we are the Kurdish guerrillas defending indigenous peoples.

We are all, all over the world, the front line in overthrowing the patriarchal, sexist, and chauvinistic regime that is the basis of class society and capitalism.

Neither "gender perspective" nor "empowerment"

Capitalism is sinking into collapse, and in its decay it has nothing to offer us but patriarchal and sexist oppression. We suffer the increase in disappearances due to trafficking networks for sexual exploitation and sexist violence, which in its most extreme form culminates in femicides.

But while the violence of the capitalist state grows, bourgeois feminism calls us to fight for a "capitalist state with a gender perspective." The currents of bourgeois feminism propose that we disguise the oppressive capitalist state with "gender secretariats," "ministries of women," or "feminist laws."

Throughout history, the oppression of women has manifested itself as a structural and systematic phenomenon of the capitalist system itself. The oppression of women and diversity (understood as a matter of class, not gender) was historically consolidated with the emergence of private property and class divisions. That is why we must defeat the capitalist and patriarchal system.

The currents that defend the politics of bourgeois feminism present "empowerment" as their political strategy. They tell us that, within capitalism and class society, women must "empower" themselves, become entrepreneurs, build "careers," and "climb the ladder" to reach or surpass men's place in capitalism; they tell us that this is defending our rights.

Bourgeois feminism wants us to reproduce the behaviors of class society and to be first in the fierce competition for money, possessions, place, or positions. But women never were, nor will they ever be, that.

We were and are at the forefront of building supportive, fraternal, community-based, and mutually cooperative behaviors, which made possible our evolution as human beings throughout history.

From the matriarchy, at the beginning of history, we are the ones who had a vanguard role in the construction of these relationships that made possible the transition from animality to human beings, the formation of the first societies, the first matriarchal clans that allowed the discovery of tools, of culture, the great advances in the development of communities based on common work.

Women have always led the great moments of human development, such as the discovery of agriculture and livestock farming, which made it possible for us to settle down and build our homes.

That's what we were throughout history, until the emergence of class society based on the private ownership of the means of production, which imposed different forms of oppression based on race, sex, and nationality, discriminated against immigrants, and established slavery.

With class society emerged "law of the jungle relationships," the oppression that transformed us into domestic slaves and later, into merchandise.

Recovering our rights means abolishing the role of domestic slaves and commodities to which capitalism reduced us, something we will only achieve by abolishing capitalism and class society, and imposing a workers' and people's government that allows us to establish fraternal, communal, and supportive relationships with all those human beings determined to unite with the goal of abolishing capitalism beyond differences of gender, race, nationality, language, etc.

We reject the bourgeois feminist program of fighting for a "gender perspective" and "empowerment" within capitalism, even though they label us "idealists" or "utopian." In reality, we are the only realists, because what is truly "utopian" is pretending that capitalism is "feminist," given that, due to its oppressive, sexist, and patriarchal nature, it will never respect our rights. Asking the capitalist state to be feminist or to have a "gender perspective," as bourgeois feminism does, is like asking the Vatican in the Middle Ages to stop burning women.

To succeed in the fight for our rights, we do not have to "reform" the capitalist state, but abolish it.

Marxist Women are not part of the "marketing"

We denounce bourgeois feminism, which attempts to position itself at the forefront of our struggle only to betray it and lead it down the dead end of reformism. Its officials, promoted by the state, capitalist political parties, and reformists, try to convince a sector of the activist movement that the conquest of rights is limited to the creation of Parliament, Ministries, Secretariats, and demanding more funding from the capitalist state.

We Marxist women denounce this policy as a trap, nothing more than an attempt to institutionalize the struggle, shifting us from the streets to offices, so that these leaders can become civil servants or aspiring to positions of power. We call on activists to reject the politics of bourgeois feminism and to break with the various currents that promote it.

Because, in turn, bourgeois feminism is complicit with the capitalist parties and governments that deepen the economic crisis with layoffs, starvation wages, lack of access to housing and healthcare, and economic insecurity. We Marxist women fight for a movement independent of capitalist parties and reformism, to end capitalism and its governments.

Bourgeois feminism reduces the struggle for our rights to "marketing" dictated by international organizations such as the UN, and the ministries of the capitalist state that seek to limit our struggle to annual events or the calendar dictated by state officials.

We women have our own calendar: the one dictated by the class struggle in the face of every murdered woman, every disappeared woman, and every mobilization for our rights. The UN is an imperialist organization that defends and has defended capitalism and class society, and in its name has perpetrated all kinds of genocides, created the genocidal state of Israel, supported dictatorships, and all kinds of regimes in defense of the profits of the 1% of capitalists.

We repudiate all organizations that proclaim themselves to be left-wing, but make agreements with UN officials, or participate in their initiatives such as the Sumud Global Flotilla, or support bourgeois officials who oppress the working class, such as Cristina Kirchner, etc., who intend to lead our struggle behind the policies of the "progressive" capitalist politicians of the Progressive International (PI), founded in 2021 by the Democratic Party of the United States.

The Progressive International (PI) aims to channel the revolutionary processes erupting around the world through parliamentary reformism and its bourgeois institutions, a policy championed by the entire reformist left worldwide and the leadership of bourgeois feminism, coupled with "progressive" capitalist governments, upholders of the capitalist system that is the root of our oppression.

Bourgeois feminism seeks to present Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Cristina Kirchner, Angela Merkel, Francia Marquez, and others—officials who defended the capitalist state and class society—as role models. They want our role models to be the "official," the "candidate," the "congresswoman" who, upon assuming office, "becomes empowered."

While bourgeois feminism signs its definitive capitulation to the capitalist state, becoming a management office that romanticizes oppression, the true revolution of working-class women continues its historical march.

In Argentina, national women's meetings have been held for decades. Originally, they were a space for self-organization, debates, and programs on women's issues, but today they no longer serve as a tool for struggle, sterilized by the policies of bourgeois feminist leadership.

The Encuentro has been co-opted by capitalist governments, by Peronism (PJ), the union bureaucracy (CTA/PCR), Kirchnerism, who took these women's meetings to a hotel business to "tour" the country, seeking to divert our ongoing revolutionary process.

These sectors have transformed the pain of victims of femicide, trafficking and exploitation into a tool of state management and entered an internal crisis as part of their shift towards Encounters that ended up being increasingly smaller, creating a bubble of revolution that burst in their face.

We Marxists are abolitionists of the prostitution system

Prostitution is capitalist slavery, and brothels are clandestine torture centers. As evidenced by the atrocious murders of the young women in Florencio Varela and Agostina Vega in Córdoba, we Marxists affirm that prostitution is not a "choice," nor a "job," nor a form of "empowerment." It is 21st-century capitalist slavery, the most abject link in the chain of capital accumulation, controlled by networks of capitalists organized in pimping systems, linked to increasingly shady businesses such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and arms trafficking—all characteristic of a decaying capitalism.

Human trafficking and prostitution are two sides of the same criminal coin. Both rely on a system of forced recruitment and deception that uses poverty as bait.

We denounce the fact that places of exploitation are not "leisure venues," but detention centers where women, lured by false job offers or "love promises" or online programs, are seduced to be kidnapped, tortured, and objectified, to feed a multi-million dollar business that is the engine of the Corporations that dominate the world economy, functioning as a flow of dirty money that oxygenates the global financial system.

Since the 1980s, capitalism has perfected the "leisure" industry (strip clubs, pornography, and online platforms). This industry paves the way for recruitment, normalizing the idea that women's bodies are commodities available on the "market." It is a path laid out by conglomerates of capitalist companies that use cultural propaganda to objectify girls and young women, turning paid rape into a mass-market product.

Talking about "consent" or "free choice" in a system that pushes women into misery, hunger, and homelessness is a complete farce.

Capitalism removes all options and then calls the commodification of our bodies "freedom" of choice. Within the capitalist system, there is no free choice for the working class; it is exploitation by the system as a tool of oppression, with the commodification of the body as its ultimate goal.

Regulationism is a smokescreen for trafficking. Regulationist movements are part of bourgeois feminism and try to make us believe that having an OnlyFans page is an example of "empowerment," but in reality, large brothels and online networks need a regulatory legal framework to camouflage their operations. By trying to legalize prostitution under the guise of "empowerment," pimps are allowed to operate as "businessmen," and traffickers can move their victims with impunity.

The capitulation of bourgeois feminism to the capitalist state

We are witnessing a terminal crisis of bourgeois feminism, the result of a process of state control and domestication of activism. Bourgeois feminism, hand in hand with Peronism, the CTA bureaucracy, and its satellites, seeks to impose the logic of the "Protective State." Under this premise, they attempt to convince a sector of activism that the conquest of rights is exhausted by the creation of capitalist institutions (Parliament, Ministries, Secretariats), demanding more funding. It is a mistake to fall into this trap, which is nothing more than institutionalizing our struggle. They displace it from the streets to offices; these leaders become officials or aspiring to positions, while the policies of capitalist governments deepen the economic crisis with layoffs, starvation wages, lack of access to housing and healthcare, and economic insecurity, increasing the number of victims of violence and patriarchal oppression.

The leadership of bourgeois feminism remains silent in the face of the complicity of the "power centers" (political power, judges, and the entire superstructure) that are the true owners of the impunity rackets in every state and province. They failed to denounce the fact that the triple murder of Brenda Morena and Lara in Florencio Varela in September 2025, whose mutilated bodies were found, was carried out by killers linked to a human trafficking and drug trafficking network that answers directly to the business headed by the barons of Greater Buenos Aires, with the support of Peronism and its strongholds, and intertwined with the political bosses of the provinces and connections to neighboring countries.

The forced disappearance and femicide of Cecilia Marlene Strzyzowski, which occurred on June 2, 2023, in Chaco, was committed by César Sena and his parents, Emerenciano Sena and Marcela Acuña, the right-hand man of Jorge Capitanich, the strongman of Kirchnerism in Chaco (and former chief of staff to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner). Fernando Espinoza, the Peronist mayor of La Matanza, currently facing charges for sexual abuse, is now the main supporter of Axel Kicillof, who went from being a Kirchnerist to the head of Peronism in Buenos Aires province. The scandal involving Martín Insaurralde, who was part of Kicillof's cabinet as governor of Buenos Aires province and one of the heads of the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area, among other cases, exposed a recurring practice that, beyond corruption, gambling, and implicit pimping, reveals the collusion between political power, the business sector, and a certain sector of the intelligence services.

These few cases we mention demonstrate how Peronism—Argentina's main political structure—managed the decay of the capitalist system from the top of power and its institutions, while coexisting with all the political colors of the bourgeois democratic regime.

Bourgeois feminism stops there, because denouncing some of these cases as a reference point is to denounce Peronism; that's why they limit themselves to demanding budgets or administrative offices, which solve nothing if this perverse and patriarchal network remains alive to continue doing business, intervening in all structures to consolidate the business: capitalist governments, ministries, parliaments and the judiciary, along with co-opted foundations and NGOs.

For Marxist women, being an abolitionist means fighting for the destruction of the capitalist and patriarchal system. We fight for the dismantling of trafficking networks and the abolition of the oppressive capitalist system.

The Plurinational State: a capitalist policy

We denounce the trap of the Plurinational State, which seeks to confuse the grassroots of activism, as a "progressive" farce. Based on the model of the 2009 Bolivian Constitution, this structure constitutionally defends private property (Art. 56) and declares corporate assets inviolable (Art. 52). The "Plurinational State" is, in reality, a prison for Indigenous peoples that allows multinational corporations and landowners to plunder Indigenous territories under the guise of multiculturalism, while maintaining intact the right of inheritance, a pillar of patriarchy and capitalism.

It establishes the protection of private property: Article 56 of said Constitution guarantees the right to private property and inheritance. This is an absolute contradiction with the feminist and people's struggles, since inheritance is the foundational institution of patriarchy for perpetuating the accumulation of capital in male lineages, even when formally recognizing hereditary equality between men and women. Inviolability

Business: Article 52 prohibits the seizure of assets belonging to business organizations. In a "Plurinational State," the bourgeoisie and multinational corporations have more legal protection than women and communities defending water and land.

Autonomy is a farce: The autonomy offered is limited by the bourgeois constitution itself (Art. 270). The people can decide on minor matters, but they cannot decide on the subsoil, which remains in the hands of the State to be handed over to oil and mining companies.

Imposed Nationality: The model imposes the nationality of the Nation-State (such as Bolivian or Argentine) on the native nations by the mere fact of being born in the territory (Art. 141), functioning as a prison of peoples under an inclusive language.

Plurinationality at the Service of Extractivism and Imperialism: The real reason why imperialism and "progressive" governments accept the term plurinational is to strategically pacify territories.

While activists wave the plurinational flag at the Encuentros (National Gatherings), multinational corporations are advancing on lithium, gold, and water resources. The plurinational model forces communities to "dialogue" with the state to accept extractive projects, under the promise of economic benefits that never reach working-class women. It is a farce to defend "plurinationality" while repressing communities that oppose mega-mining. The groups that lead the Encuentro (such as the PCR or Kirchnerism) have been complicit in handing over land to large landowners and foreign companies.

You cannot fight patriarchy by defending a model of the State that upholds private ownership of the means of production.

Patriarchy arose historically to ensure the transmission of private property; therefore, any legal structure that defends it is intrinsically patriarchal.

As Marxist women, we reject the plurinational farce. We demand the self-determination of peoples and the unity of the working class without regard for borders, against capital. The only real way forward for women and Indigenous peoples is the expropriation of multinational corporations and the destruction of the bourgeois state.

Bourgeois feminism failed in the face of this reality

Despite the creation of ministries and laws since 2020, deaths are not decreasing, which is why we want to highlight the surge in violence: Trafficking and Femicides (2020-2026). Since 2020, statistics in Argentina and around the world show a high plateau or increases in the rates of lethal violence.

In Argentina: Independent observatories report a femicide every 25 to 30 hours. Between 2020 and 2025, the COVID-19 lockdown and the subsequent economic crisis left women trapped with their abusers or without the resources to leave violent homes.

In Latin America, countries like Mexico and Brazil are registering record numbers. The common factor is state impunity: more than 90% of cases do not result in convictions, demonstrating that the judicial system is a patriarchal institution that protects the aggressor.

From a Marxist perspective, we emphatically state that to stop femicides and all systemic violence, the solution is not to work from within the system, but to destroy the capitalist and oppressive system of the working class.

In Argentina, impunity prevails: It is estimated that 92% of cases involving violence do not result in an effective conviction, reinforcing the role of the judicial system as a guarantor of patriarchy. At a global level, 56% of women victims of femicide worldwide die at the hands of their killer.

Human trafficking has increased due to digital recruitment: Since the 2020 crisis, recruitment through digital environments (social media and fake job offers) has increased by 45% globally. 72% of detected trafficking victims are women and girls, and of these, 90% are ultimately subjected to sexual exploitation.

Towards a Revolutionary Marxist Alternative

Our Marxist program must be sharply differentiated from these sectors because it does not seek cosmetic reforms; we seek the abolition of private ownership of the means of production to end the economic basis of class oppression and the privilege of the 1% who concentrate the world's wealth, and for this we must destroy the capitalist system, the heart of patriarchy and the oppression of the working class, because the capitalist system is not reformed or beautified, it is destroyed for the liberation of the oppressed sectors.

The break with bourgeois feminism is not an act of isolation, but a necessary step to build a political tool capable of burying capitalism. While institutional feminism seeks to "improve" our oppression, revolutionary Marxism seeks to destroy the capitalist and patriarchal system for the total emancipation of the working class.

Unlike the "reformist left" (FITU and satellites) that adapts to parliamentary institutions, revolutionary Marxism argues that the State is not reformed, it is destroyed.

We reaffirm this distinction because bourgeois feminism acts as a straitjacket for the rage of women and oppressed groups. The trap of "Social Peace": Bourgeois feminism calls us to peace and dialogue with institutions. Marxist feminism calls for permanent mobilization until capitalism falls, opening the doors to socialism.

Our Proposal: An Independent, Revolutionary, and Socialist Organization

Faced with bourgeois feminism and the plurinational farce, we Marxists propose returning to the path of class struggle. There is no way out within the institutions of the State or under the slogans of reformism.

Independence from the capitalist state: We Marxists demand class independence, in opposition to bourgeois feminism that proposes dependence on the state; we reject ministries as centers for recruiting activists and the bureaucracy that administers our oppression.

Unity with those oppressed by the system: The fight against patriarchy is inseparable from the fight against capitalism, unity with the class, with oppressed peoples, races, languages, sexual diversities.

Abolition of the prostitution system: Against the prostitution system and trafficking, we demand the prosecution of pimps and the dismantling of networks that enjoy political and police protection. We reject the "professionalization" of our exploitation.

For the Socialist Revolution in the world: Only the expropriation of the means of production can lay the foundation for the true liberation of women, the working class, and oppressed peoples. By ending private ownership of the means of production, we end the material basis of sexism and the patriarchal legacy.

We invite working women, exploited women, victims, and families of femicide and trafficking victims to participate in the Marxist women's congress on October 24th . Here is the link to register; please leave your WhatsApp number and/or email address.