"More than a celebration: For Woman and Man, hand in hand in an endless struggle"
(A message for the International Working Women's Day")
At first, this post congratulates to all women for their struggles, sacrifices, and victories, all in asserting, upholding, and defending the rights of women, and its promotion of her role in resisting against oppression, plunder, and war; and in striving to bring about a better world.
For true to its original intent, this International Working Women's Day is more than just a commemoration of womanhood, but rather a commemoration of an assertion, in a way like Clara Zetkin, Alexandra Kollontai, and others whose message hath inspired the working woman not to recognise their womanhood, but also its role on society that's beyond the home. From there that occasion celebrates its right to sufferage, to obtain rights, and its sworn oath to combat attempts to destroy its successes.
At present, this oath continues to resonate. For despite modernity, women, like their male counterparts, young and old, suffer in common the most intolerable forms of exploitation and oppression. Conditions of low wages, mass layoffs, high rate of unemployment, gross inequality, and widespread poverty has been an ever continuing issue brought about by unjust and repressive policies that hinders the development of man and of women in the society.
Sounds militant isn't it? For that oppression continues to resonate, and as for women, at its worst for discrimination, what more of violence that pitted them further. Liberals and Conservatives alike been bannering that message of ending these words this post stated, for knowing that it attempted to coopt the women’s movement and therefore redirect it towards their view of "bourgeois feminism", "liberalism", "neoliberalism" and all sorts bourgeois subjectivist currents that's against the working people, all in favor of a shallow view that's benefiting the monopoly bourgeoisie, imperialism, and all sorts of reaction.
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Anyway, regardless of their assertions to depict women as such, be it distorting the essence of their struggles or negating it, that women are more than just being respected, but also to join them in a quest that from every home, school, workplace, that from every rural or urban enclave, there is a duty to bound and that is to lose the chains that bound in each and everyone.
For the fact that the occasion's beginnings are in itself militant, these people who held half the sky wanted more than just recognition or respect for their womanhood and its contributions in the society, but they also demand what everyone desired: peace, land, bread, social justice, respect for rights, and others which made this occasion more than just a celebration of womanhood.
And from this somehow made it distinguishable from how others take the occasion as recognition for chrissakes showcasing being a woman and how they deal in this world. That fhey focus on beauty, but not on her valour; that they focus on her charm, not on her courage; otherwise, they would praise the actions of the past, but they will limit in her appearance.
Well then, to cut this note short, may this post greet a liberating international working women's day to the reader.
And hope that the reader will join hand in hand with the people in making a world where opportunities happen both man and woman.