Migrant worker groups demonstrated in front of the Legislative Yuan on International Women’s Day on Monday, calling attention to the plight faced by female migrant workers in Taiwan. Around 100 migrant workers, who were primarily from Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, were in attendance...
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic, the annual commemoration of International Women’s Day did not take place as a march this year, instead taking place as an indoor fair, involving workshops and booths...
Approximately hundred or more marched today for the second annual Women’s March Taiwan. Marchers weathered cold, wind, and rain, starting from Liberty Plaza, marching east past Daan Park, and finishing at the Red Room art space near Zhongxiao Xinsheng, where a number of speeches were held with bilingual translation...
International Women’s Day, now celebrated all over the world and adopted by the United Nations, has a Marxist origin. Originally, the labor movement in the United States and the Socialist Party of America started the holiday. It was first called the International Working Women’s Day, and its inaugural celebration was organized by Clara Zetkin, a prominent German Marxist and later a member of the Communist Party of Germany, on March 19th, 1911. The liberation of women from oppression under capitalist society has always been one of the top priorities of the Marxist revolutionary program, and past revolutionary struggles sent shock waves throughout the world, which substantially contributed to the progression of women’s rights across the globe. ...