ATİGF: Call for Event in Innsbruck for International Working Women’s Day on March 8
We hereby share an unofficial translation of a call for the International Working Women’s Day from Austrian Youth Federation of Turkish Workers (ATİGF) shared by Avrupa Haber.
Austrian Youth Federation of Turkish Workers (ATİGF) is celebrating its 40th year of struggle and is calling for a event on the occasion of March 8, International Working Women’s Day.
The ATİGF Executive Board announced that a event will be held in Innsbruck on Saturday, March 7, 2026, with women active in all associations and committees affiliated with ATİGF, on the occasion of International Working Women’s Day on March 8.
March 8 is the international day of struggle for women who create and produce in all areas of life against the imperialist capitalist system of exploitation.
International Women’s Day has its origins in the struggle of female textile workers who went on strike for better working conditions in New York City, USA, on March 8, 1857.
The proposal to celebrate March 8 as “International Women’s Day” was made by German Marxist theorist and communist leader Clara Zetkin.
In August 1910, at the 2nd International Socialist Women’s Conference held in Copenhagen, it was adopted in memory of the female workers who died in a fire at a textile factory in New York in 1857 and in memory of women’s struggle for suffrage and working conditions.
Today, in the imperialist capitalist system of exploitation, women’s labor is exploited as cheap labor. Women live in a system where they suffer the most in wars; where they are kidnapped, harassed, and raped; where dozens of them are murdered every day by men; and where male-dominated state laws protect women’s killers.
It is necessary to spread and embrace the consciousness that the world’s liberation from exploitation and oppression; the possibility of a free, equal, unlimited, exploitation-free life without gender discrimination; can only be achieved through the joint struggle of women and men workers and laborers of all nationalities. Against all kinds of bourgeois feminist approaches, the consciousness that revolutionary women cannot achieve true liberation without class liberation must be insisted upon on March 8, International Working Women’s Day.
It is essential that immigrant women living in Europe, and refugees forced to migrate due to war and poverty, unite with local women in a struggle based on class solidarity against the exclusionary, racist, and chauvinistic attacks they face in the European countries they have come to.
Let’s meet in Innsbruck on Saturday, March 7.
On International Working Women’s Day, let us shout our rebellion and class anger!
Long live March 8, International Working Women’s Day!
Long live AGEB, ATİGF, Mor Kızıl Kolektif!
Long live our 40th year of struggle!
ATİGF Executive Board
February 27, 2026
