February 14—Furious marchers, mostly women, protested against the murder of Ingrid Escamilla, 25, in Mexico City. One group gathered in front of the building where she was murdered. Larger, angrier, marches blamed the state and the press, which has published horrific photographs of her dead body.
Another woman dead in Mexico—with 1006 documented femicides in 2019, and certainly many more—and how many murdered by capitalism in all its forms worldwide? We—the international working class—are not fooled by all-women police squads controlling our protests or by assurances from Nelly Montealegre Diaz, Deputy Attorney for Victims and Community Services, that this case will be thoroughly and relentlessly investigated.
We demand an end to the violence against women! But how will that happen?
Violence against women is the most extreme form of the sexism that is built into class society. Not only do the rulers need sexism to divide men and women workers. The very relationships of production and distribution of commodities require relationships of power and sexist, racist and classist ideas that justify those relationships.
We start now to build the communist relationships—militant, loving, relationships of solidarity and struggle among the working masses of all genders—that will allow us to put an end to capitalist society. These relationships are the embryo of the new communist world we will build. We will work together to build a healthy society where no one will ever again be the victim of hate and violence.
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