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International Women's Day

Like other celebrations emptied from their radical content and has been a "free market" capitalist celebration.

"Liberated" women buy flowers harvested by exploited women in Colombia. They feel good and I am sure —even if they think they are not exploited and commodified in the West—they are thinking (I'm being sarcastic) of the conditions of the Indian, Syrian and African women... of those refugees Syrian women, some of them are currently refused entry by Fortress Europe, or of those women harvesting coffee beans or making knickers and outfits suitable for celebrations.

According to Oxfam, "The 22 richest men in the world now have more wealth than all the women in Africa. Women and girls put in 12.5 billion hours of unpaid care work each and every day —a contribution to the global economy of at least $10.8 trillion a year, more than three times the size of the global tech industry."

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