The last event for the International Day of Women's Rights in the Tunisian capital was held exactly ten years ago, in 2014, only assembly events were organized in the following years.
Yesterday 8 March 2024, for the first time after ten years, the streets of Tunis were crossed by a great and combative manifestation of hundreds of women
: students, workers, women from feminist associations and Palestinian committees, together with some political and social activists.
The demonstration started from the working-class neighborhood next to Bab el Khadra, crossed it, then entered the central Place de la Repubblique and from there, marching along the Avenue de Paris, finally reached the main artery of the capital: the Avenue Bourghiba.
On March 8 this year in Tunisia he was marked by solidarity with Palestinian women and by the denunciation of the Zionist genocidal aggression against Gaza.
In the procession there were some historical posters of the popular front for the liberation of the Palestine dedicated to 8 March, and the feminist and LGBTQ organizations highlighted in their slogans
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link between the feminist struggle and support for revolutionary women who fight for national liberation.
Also on this occasion, the event, while marked next to the French Institute in Tunisia, stopped for a few minutes to contest the French politics in support of Israel, chanting slogans such as "Macron Assassino, free Abdallah" (George Ibrahim Abdallah, the Lebanese revolutionary militant detained in France for 40 years N.D.A.), many demonstrators with their Palestinian flags have affected the metal structure of the building.
During the march, there was no lack of slogans against other imperialist countries that support Israel and in particular USA, Germany and Italy.
At the end of the procession, in front of the French embassy, "Solidaritè Avec La Femme Palestinienne, Solidarity Avec Les Femmes du Monde Estiere" has been shouted several times and finally, in front of the municipal theater, the event ended with the collective song of a song For Palestine.
