International Feminist Strike for Liberation – London 8 March 2026

The following is a statement from the women’s strike assembly:

Statement

London, UK – Sunday 8 March – We, the women’s strike assembly – an independent collective comprised of various migrant, socialist, decolonial, abolitionist and autonomous activists and organisations – will be taking to the streets once more this year on 8 March 2026.

As a collective, we have been taking action on 8 March annually since 2018 to celebrate, grieve and struggle against patriarchy, imperialism and fascism as they manifest in the form of further militarisation, attacks on our trans and migrant siblings and silence in the face of the global drive to war.

As a collective who rejects liberal and reactionary feminisms, we learn from and laud all those who have taken action alongside us and in the same spirit of liberation around the world, from the global women’s strike in 2000, the women’s revolution in Rojava to the various anti-femicide movements across Abya Yala.

The threat of fascism

In 2026, the biggest enemy for women’s liberation is the threat of fascism and the rise of the far-right on our streets, as well as the neoliberal Labour Party stooping to racist politics in order to appeal to the ruling class who benefit from dividing the working classes in the first place. Additionally, the Labour government are actively harming immigrants through furthering earned settlement policies and building a hostile environment which harms women by exacerbating crises in care, housing, cost of living, and childcare.

With regards to the dimension of fascism on the street: in the last year, we have witnessed fascists advancing their movements into local communities in the name of ‘women’s rights and safety’. Alongside this, imperial feminisms upholding racist narratives that migrants come to the country to ‘rape and abuse’ *our* women and children have been strengthened by reactionary groups like the Pink Ladies to give the impression that the fascist movement has found legitimacy amongst women.

As anti-fascist feminists, we say fuck this colonialist nationalist agenda. NO to borders. Migration is life and NO one is illegal.

Details of the demonstration

Date and Time: 3pm, Sunday 8 March

Route: The march will commence at Russell Square and end at Soho Square, London

Why we strike

We are striking as a feminist wing of a working-class movement, that is to say a movement which represents poor and disenfranchised people and takes action in line with their liberation against the system which defines politics as committees of the rich few against the many. We are striking as the Epstein files expose the threads of a corrupt global elite that enjoys total impunity, showing the complicity between the British Monarchy, the billionaires club, the financiers, politicians from all parties, with an international ring of p*dophiles, sexual traffickers and abusers.

Furthermore, we are striking as in British society, around 4 million children are living in poverty and 382,000 people are homeless in England alone- with black women and single mothers affected disproportionately. We strike because these contradictions are not matters of bad administration or policy but rather a result of a system that is unequal by design. So we strike as conscious objectors to such a bloodthirsty system, which has been vying for the approval of women for years through ‘girlboss’ rhetoric, demanding that women be involved in this cycle of oppression.

We reject the currents of reactionary feminism which seek to divide our experiences of gender and womanhood to biology. We are striking alongside our trans siblings, because their lives are under constant attack. The UK Supreme Court ruling saying “sex” is exclusive to biological / assigned at birth sex is nothing but another colonial heritage perpetuated and in the name of “women’s rights and safety”. We reject terfism and mandatory cisness, we define who we are.

We strike in transnational solidarity with the people of Palestine, Rojava, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Haiti and Congo. We strike against the femi-genocide in Palestine which is deliberately targeting mothers who give birth to, feed and raise children, and are the primary carers of families and communities. Imperialism continues to kill people en masse for power and profit. This is a global system, not a set of policies. As a result, we are a global network of anti-colonial feminists. ALL EMPIRES MUST FALL!

We strike because we don’t just want rights. We understand they can be useful, but they are CRUMBS in a system based on exploitation, extraction and colonisation of our bodies, our labour, our lands, our nature, and the planet. We want justice and we want liberation – because feminist justice is incomplete without land justice, disability justice, housing justice, food justice, and care justice.

We strike because we want to create communities that enact ways of organising life and relating to one another that are not based on abuse, oppression, accumulation, or punitivism. We’re seeking worlds otherwise, we want to abolish the systems that enable oppression and create freedom through new systems of care and the leadership of the oppressed. Justice does not call for reform, but for feminist projects of total collective transformations. Justice is about imagining and working towards worlds of interconnectedness and care as foundational principles for organising life. It is about sharing the labour of sustaining life – human and non-human. Justice is about a life beyond individual choices within a broken system, and instead about collective care.

All in all, our demands this year, just like every year, we seek to take action as the general crisis of imperialism affects women and marginalised communities the most. We shall take the streets in order to expose and raise awareness of this fact.

When women stop, the world stops.

Featured image via Instagram / falatinamericans