The recent kidnapping of over 300 girls in Nigeria by Boko Haram, and the threat to sell them as slaves, has created international outrage and anger.  This barbaric act pales in comparison to the atrocities committed by US imperialism in last 50 years.  During the Vietnam war, then defense secretary McNamara encouraged the Thai government to create 'Rest and Recreation' facilities in Thailand for US troops.  This policy resulted in widespread prostitution in Thailand and the brutal rape of hundreds of thousands of girls. 

To build the 'Rest and Recreation' resort facilities,  the Thai government borrowed heavily from international banks.  By the early 1980's, the Thai government was in severe debt and unable to make loan payments.  The IMF and World Bank forced the Thai government to institutionalize sex tourism to pay this debt.  This policy not only enslaved millions of Thai girls and women into prostitution, it also forced girls from neighboring countries like Myanmar, Lagos, and Cambodia into deadly prostitution. The IMF has implemented the Thai model of paying debt by sex tourism in Brazil, Nicaragua, Russia, Eastern Europe, and Ghana, among other places.

The division of labor and the oppression of women began with class society. The capitalist wage system super-exploits women workers while exploiting all workers. Capitalism insures that sexist violence against women takes many different forms. For example, in India to boost agriculture output to feed the growing urban working class, capitalist bosses  introduced high yield hybrid seeds in rural farms.  The increased debt for more costly food production forces men to migrate to cities to work and women in rural areas to take more responsibility to grow food.  But the hybrid seeds require pesticides and fertilizers in large quantity. The rural households can only sustain their farms by borrowing money from banks.  It is estimated that every year over 100,000 young women in rural India commit suicide by consuming pesticide because they cannot pay their debts.

Working women and men deserve a different society.  We need to smash the foundation  of wage slavery, which breeds sexist violence, degradation and super-exploitation. Vietnamese communist women gave valiant leadership in the struggle against the French and US imperialist invaders.  Throughout history women workers won to communism have played a crucial role. Our party is determined to carry on this important struggle from South Africa to El Salvador and every corner in the world.