By New Worker correspondent
AN ESTIMATED 3,000 women took part in
the Million Women Rise march in London’s West End last Saturday to mark
International Women’s Day and to campaign against continuing violence against
women.
It was a truly
international march strongly supported by women from Africa, southern Asia and
the Middle East, many wearing colourful traditional dress.
A group of women
from the Democratic Republic of the Congo held a banner proclaiming: “blood in
your phone”, referring to British multinational corporations that exploit
minerals such as Coltan – used to manufacture microchips for phones and
computers – profiting from forced labour and war in the region.
There were many
placards and banners in support of the young Kurdish women who are playing a
big role as frontline YPJ forces in the fight against Isis terrorists trying to
seize the city of Kobane.
There were
placards showing the effects of horrendous acid attacks carried out on women in
Iran who refuse to conform to dress and behaviour codes imposed by the regime.
A contingent of
Turkish and Kurdish women from Day-Mer Women's Organisation carried a banner
declaring "Let's unite against austerity, war and violence and fight for
our labour and social rights".
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