3rd World Women's Conference in Tunis: Final Resolution: We are women, we are strong!

9 September 2022: The International Automotive Workers' Coordination participated with a delegation in the 3rd World Women's Conference in Tunisia. We document the final resolution below: Finally! The 3rd World Women's Conference of Grassroots Women took place in Tunis/Tunisia from September 3rd to 9th, 2022 in a spirit of solidarity, inquisitiveness, argumentative, self-confident and sure of victory. With a militant demonstration that drew a lot of media attention, a celebratory opening, 31 workshops, a substantial general assembly, inspiring cultural evenings and a joint final plenary session, she inspired spirit and feelings under the motto »we are women we are strong«.

The conference with 450 participants, 93 delegates from 42 countries was won through tireless work of the cordial hostess of the women's committee Latifah Tamallah together with the Tunisian preparatory committee with about 10 organizations: women's and human rights organizations, trade unions, rural women. As well as the coordinators of World Women and countless activists around the world. All this in the headwind of a world whose ruling systems only exist in crises: economic crises, political crises, environmental crises, food crises, crisis in bourgeois refugee policy, health crises, debt crises ... Many regions of the world have been shaken by wars for decades. As a new quality, the war in the Ukraine harbors the danger of a third world war, a nuclear catastrophe caused by the war that was unjust on both sides. We are in a global environmental crisis and it is turning into a catastrophe that is destroying our very existence. Environmental crises, food crises, crises in bourgeois refugee policies, health crises, debt crises... Many regions of the world have been shaken by wars for decades. As a new quality, the war in the Ukraine harbors the danger of a third world war, a nuclear catastrophe caused by the war that was unjust on both sides. We are in a global environmental crisis and it is turning into a catastrophe that is destroying our very existence. Environmental crises, food crises, crises in bourgeois refugee policies, health crises, debt crises... Many regions of the world have been shaken by wars for decades. As a new quality, the war in the Ukraine harbors the danger of a third world war, a nuclear catastrophe caused by the war that was unjust on both sides. We are in a global environmental crisis and it is turning into a catastrophe that is destroying our very existence.
Both show relentlessly: imperialism leads to war and destroys our livelihoods. The main warmongers are still the USA, NATO and all imperialist powers are fighting over dead bodies in their competitive struggle. Bourgeois opinion manipulation is using the Ukraine war to distract attention from other focal points.
We, on the other hand, see the connection: the illegal occupation of Palestine by Zionist Israel. Turkey's brutal aggression against Rojava and 10 years of "women's revolution". The terror of religious fanatics, the jihadists, the Taliban against the masses in Afghanistan. The trampled right of self-determination of the people of Western Sahara. The particular neocolonial exploitation of Africa.
We heard how the farmer lives and protests against the destruction of Mother Earth, her living space. All this by no means only in the so-called "backwards regions of the world", but also in the middle of the so-called "rich, advanced countries" - precisely under imperialist rule! They are the faces of the double and triple exploitation and oppression of the masses of women, of sexualized violence with all its disgusting faces by the greatest, patriarchal, violent criminals: the state and family orders of the feudal, capitalist and imperialist countries. Therefore we demand the withdrawal of all imperialists from our countries. NATO out of our countries. All this by no means only in the so-called "backwards regions of the world", but also in the middle of the so-called "rich, advanced countries" - precisely under imperialist rule! They are the faces of the double and triple exploitation and oppression of the masses of women, of sexualized violence with all its disgusting faces by the greatest, patriarchal, violent criminals: the state and family orders of the feudal, capitalist and imperialist countries. Therefore we demand the withdrawal of all imperialists from our countries. NATO out of our countries. All this by no means only in the so-called "backwards regions of the world", but also in the middle of the so-called "rich, advanced countries" - precisely under imperialist rule! They are the faces of the double and triple exploitation and oppression of the masses of women, of sexualized violence with all its disgusting faces by the greatest, patriarchal, violent criminals: the state and family orders of the feudal, capitalist and imperialist countries. Therefore we demand the withdrawal of all imperialists from our countries. NATO out of our countries. They are the faces of the double and triple exploitation and oppression of the masses of women, of sexualized violence with all its disgusting faces by the greatest, patriarchal, violent criminals: the state and family orders of the feudal, capitalist and imperialist countries. Therefore we demand the withdrawal of all imperialists from our countries. NATO out of our countries. They are the faces of the double and triple exploitation and oppression of the masses of women, of sexualized violence with all its disgusting faces by the greatest, patriarchal, violent criminals: the state and family orders of the feudal, capitalist and imperialist countries. Therefore we demand the withdrawal of all imperialists from our countries. NATO out of our countries.
All over the world women are fighting against environmental crimes. We work together with all forces that want to save our mother earth.
The women workers, farmers, indigenous people, environmentalists, human rights activists and young women of the world bravely resist all of this: as individuals, in initiatives, movements, women's organizations, trade unions, parties, through courageous denunciation and documentation of crimes, through court processes carried out at the risk of their lives, through strikes, through the organization of underground schools, in mass movements up to riots. Revolutionary situations arise more and more frequently, in which the masses no longer want to live in the old way and the rulers can no longer govern in the old way. Because today everyone could have work, bread, health and education! This is only possible without capitalism, imperialism and patriarchy.
But let's not fool ourselves: no uprising, no revolution can be sustainable if solid, anchored, conscious people, ready for anything, are not organized in mass movements, mass organizations and parties and work together with each other full of trust. It is only together with the international working class that the force superior to imperialism emerges, which is insurmountable with clarity, revolutionary perspectives and worldwide connections. Against all bitter resistance, the new society of the liberation of women and of all humanity will triumph.
The preliminary battles for this are fought in the minds and hearts of the people. The destructive, demoralizing and divisive ideas of the rulers must lose their power: fascism, machismo, sexism, colonialism, racism, nationalism, chauvinism, opportunism, anti-communism, postmodernism, Zionism, politically abused religions and the ways of thinking and behavior associated with them.
As the movement of world women, we are making a determined contribution to this. Each and every one of us takes responsibility for our ambitious program up to the 4th World Conference on Women in 2027: day-to-day awareness-raising and organizing work for the broadest mass women's movement from religion to revolution. Strong global days of struggle on March 8th, May 1st and November 25th, with calls for World Conference on Women and we mobilize for World Day of Peace. On these days of struggle, as world women, we want to fight together against global crises and wars. March 8th is supposed to be a public holiday. When the time is right: women's strike!
Two continental conferences in each continent. 2024/25 the 2nd theoretical seminar "Women's revolution - social-ecological transformation - socialist revolution: how do we defeat imperialism?" They work closely together, but two coordinators each concentrate on continental coordination and world coordination. We urge the organizations, parties and movements: give them more resources and support! Promotes generational change. Let's create continental young women's committees. One young woman from each country takes part in the committee. We form a permanent organizing committee to never wear out in disorganization.
We cordially invite you: join the platform of world women in the anti-imperialist and anti-fascist united front or in new revolutionary associations. In our organizations and movements, we all promote education, self-confidence and the assumption of leadership roles by women and girls. We shake hands with all allies.
Women and girls of the world! Our time has come!

For more information see:

https://worldwomensconference.org/3-weltfrauenkonferenz-2022/resolution-von-tunis-we-are-women-we-are-strong/

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