Women Against the Far Right had a vibrant bloc
By Jude Mckechnie
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Saturday 07 March 2026
They protested the shortage of motion to cease violence towards ladies and ladies
Thousands took to the streets of central London for the nineteenth annual Million Women Rise march on Saturday.
The Million Women Rise coalition is a black, world majority led ladies’s collective. It goals to finish all types of violence against women and ladies.
Misogyny is a poisonous and pervasive stain on our society. It continues to form the lives of girls all around the globe each single day. The rise in gender-based violence and assaults on reproductive rights present that we’re at a harmful junction.
Now, Western politicians are dropping bombs throughout the Middle East and making an attempt to border it as ladies’s liberation. It is extra essential than ever that we combat again.
The march introduced completely different ladies’s organisations along with activists and campaigners to protest the shortage of motion to deal with violence towards ladies and ladies.
There was a sense of solidarity and exhilaration on the energy of being with different ladies, coming collectively to combat for liberation.
Women sang and chanted on the high of their voices “Women got the power” and “Say it once, say it again–no excuse for violent men.”
Melissa attended the march. She instructed Socialist Worker this was the primary protest that she’d been on for ladies’s rights and that she was indignant in regards to the rise of the far proper.
She mentioned, “I feel like I can’t stand by anymore. With the rise of fascism, I have to say something. People who believe in equal rights and who believe that the far right is not a force for good can’t sit at home any longer.”
Fenella mentioned that she’d joined the demonstration as a result of she needed to combat the sensation of hopelessness on the rise in gender-based violence and assaults on onerous fought for rights for ladies.
“In the United States, abortion rights have been rolled back and in this country trans women’s rights are getting attacked. Today feels like an opportunity to come out and make ourselves seen and heard.”
Cheryl is a member of the NEU schooling union. She was one in every of many academics who had proven as much as the march.
She instructed Socialist Worker, “I’ve quite a lot of ladies actually near me who’ve been victims of violence by the hands of males. I’m a trainer and I run a ladies’s rights membership on the college I work at. Those younger ladies encourage me each week we meet up.
“The world can seem a lot more toxic now than it ever was. But at the same time, what I’m seeing is more women, and young girls especially, standing up for themselves and not accepting anything less than what they deserve. That’s really inspiring to me.”
Naima had come out along with her mum and her daughter. “I hope for my daughter that in our lifetime we’ll live in a world where women everywhere are free,” she instructed Socialist Worker.
Women Against the Far Right (WAFR) had a vibrant bloc on the march.
Rimaz Ahmed from WAFR spoke on the rally in Trafalgar Square. She mentioned that the actual custom of International Women’s Day (IWD) was about celebrating how far ladies’s rights had come and the activists who made that progress attainable.
“But IWD is not only a celebration. It is also a reminder that if we don’t continue to fight for our rights, then the far right and racist and sexist political parties will roll them back.”
She instructed the group, “We should combat again towards Reform UK, who utilise the language of feminism, claiming that their racist scapegoating of migrants and refugees is to guard ladies.
“They don’t care about ladies, they don’t care when refugee ladies are pressured onto harmful journeys as a result of borders are closed to them. They don’t care when migrant ladies are exploited in low-paid work that retains our financial system working.
“Because their politics was by no means about ladies’s liberation. It is about defending a system that earnings from division, exploitation and inequality.
“But our liberation cannot be separated from that of working class women, of migrants, of refugees. Our liberation does not come for division. It comes from unity. And that’s why we must organise.”
