We live in decisive times for women and all of humanity. The question of the position and role of women in society “is more and more acutely posing itself in today’s extreme circumstances… It is not conceivable that all this will find any resolution other than in the most radical terms… The question yet to be determined is: will it be a radical reactionary or a radical revolutionary resolution, will it mean the reinforcing of the chains of enslavement or the shattering of the most decisive links in those chains and the opening up of the possibility of realizing the complete elimination of all forms of such enslavement?” (Bob Avakian, Break ALL the Chains!, revcom.us)
Women have been dominated for thousands of years by one exploitative system after another. They will play a decisive role in making revolution, overthrowing the capitalist system that abuses and murders them today, and creating new socialist societies that liberate them and fight to eradicate male supremacy and all forms of exploitation and oppression.
We are living in very convulsed times. The capitalist-imperialist system is coming up against its limits, and the “world order” of the past 80 years is in deep crisis. Its expansion through the burning of oil, gas, and coal has created an extreme environmental crisis that threatens the future of humanity and other species. The major nuclear imperialist powers (the U.S., China, and Russia) are clashing with each other over the need to expand their empires and avoid collapse, leading to the existential threat of nuclear war. Revolutions guided by the new communism are the only real way out of all this madness.
In this situation, the forces fighting for a radical reactionary resolution for women are on the move. Fascism is growing due to the crisis of the system that has given rise to it. The Trump regime is heading up a reactionary front of fascist parties in Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere that govern with brute force and incite hatred against women, LGBT people, and migrants. They promote machismo, racism, reactionary nationalism, and religious fundamentalism. They disregard laws and deny climate change. They have revoked the right to abortion nationwide in the U.S., impose forced motherhood in most states there, and deny abortions even if they cause a woman’s death. They are fighting to predominate themselves worldwide. This year, the United States has invaded and taken possession of Venezuela, imposed famine on the Cuban people in order to seize power there, and is now intervening with drones, spy flights, and FBI and CIA operations in Mexico, also threatening Colombia, Brazil, and other countries in the region.
The nascent potential for another resolution, a radical revolutionary resolution, is glimpsed in the awakening and rebellion of hundreds of thousands of women in Mexico from 2020 to 2022, the uprising in Iran from 2022 to 2023 to the cry of “Woman, Life, Freedom,” the massive mobilization in Argentina to win the right to abortion, and the protests now in the U.S., where women are on the front lines confronting the fascist ICE police in defense of migrants, and thousands are fighting to mobilize millions to remove the fascist Trump regime from power. With a scientific understanding of the problem and the solution, these struggles and other uprisings could be precursors to revolutions that, with the deepening crisis of the system, may give birth to new, liberatory socialist societies.
Such a radical revolutionary resolution is urgent. Violence against women is increasing spectacularly worldwide. According to official data, more than 83,000 women were murdered in 2025, in addition to 60,000 in armed conflicts. In Gaza, the UN reports that 70% of the deaths in the genocidal war perpetrated by Israel and the U.S. have been unarmed women and children. The age group with the highest number of deaths is children between 5 and 9 years old.
In Mexico, contrary to official phrases like “this is the time of women” and “we women are all on deck now,” misogynistic violence is intensifying, and the government is covering this up. The government boasts of a supposed reduction in femicides of nearly 15 percent in 2025, but non-governmental organizations that research the actual data in the media and prosecutors’ offices affirm that between 10 and 11 women are still being murdered every day. There is no significant reduction. Prosecutor’s offices manipulate the figures under political pressure, recording femicides as suicides or under other categories such as “deaths due to unspecified causes,” and many murders go unreported.
Reports of the disappearance of women have increased dramatically since 2022. In 2025, there was an average of 17 reported disappearances of women every day, equivalent to 40% of all disappearances, compared to the historical average of 25%. Young women aged 15 to 19 suffer the greatest number of disappearances due in large part to increased sexual exploitation and forced recruitment by organized crime, with the collusion of authorities.
The governments of López Obrador and Sheinbaum [former and current presidents of Mexico] have tried to reduce the number of missing persons, instead of searching for them or identifying the 72,000 bodies in the morgues. Karla Quintana, who resigned as head of the National Search Commission in 2023, later stated that “The very clear and regrettable intention is to reduce the number of missing persons, mainly under the current administration.” The federal government and the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) tried to suppress reports of burned bones found at Rancho Izaguirre (Teuchitlán), and coverup the existence of many other camps used to train and kill young people tricked and forcibly recruited by the drug cartels. The General Law on Forced Disappearances has been passed to record only missing persons with open investigations. Even though prosecutors refuse to open cases in many instances, many people fear taking their cases to the prosecutor’s office due to their collusion with organized crime, and missing migrants will be erased from the registry.
Let’s look at one example among many of the government’s criminal actions. On July 12, 2025, Ana Amelí García Gámez, a 20-year-old biology student at the UNAM [National Autonomous University of Mexico] who practiced mountain climbing, climbed the volcano Pico del Águila in Ajusco [in southern Mexico City]. She did not return home. Six months later, there is still no trace of her. When her family went to look for her that same day, two officers from the Tlalpan SSPC (Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection) ordered them to leave. When they returned later with many other people to search for her, they saw black SUVs with armed commandos carrying high-caliber rifles. The public prosecutor’s agents refused to document this. Amelí’s mother denounced the fact that the search was limited to the Pico de Águila area, as if this was a simple accident that had left Amelí incapacitated. This area is notorious for the high number of missing young people (mostly women, but also men) in recent years. Her father has noted that there are criminal gangs that invite people traveling alone to climb the mountain with them, with the aim of disappearing them. The Mexico City Attorney General’s Office did not provide the parents with the investigation file or any search plan, among other underhanded tactics documented here by the IACHR [Inter-American Commission on Human Rights].
In another case, Sandra Estefana Domínguez Martínez, an Ayuuk defender of disappeared and raped Indian women, and of a young woman who was murdered, disappeared along with her husband, Alexander Hernández, in October 2024 in Oaxaca. Seven months later, in April 2025, their bodies were found in La Ceiba, Veracruz. A colleague who worked with her indicated that she was murdered by organized crime, but this was at the behest of politicians she had exposed. Since 2020, Sandra had been exposing Oaxacan officials who led a chat group of state and federal officials and politicians from different parties who shared misogynistic content and intimate photos of Indian women. Due to her and other women’s exposures, an official from the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI) was fired, but the Morena party’s [current party controlling the federal government] state coordinator of Delegates for Social Peace, Donato Vargas Jiménez, and other politicians created another misogynistic chat group and continued threatening Sandra. The crimes of these politicians, as well as those of Jeffrey Epstein and his network of trafficking girls for powerful politicians and businessmen, demonstrate how rotten the system we live in is, and the centrality of male supremacy as a pillar that keeps this system afloat.
Oppression and violence against women are on the rise. The ruling classes that maintain and reinforce this system are divided and fighting amongst themselves, with opposing views on how to save this oppressive system. These are not times to look for which gang, party, or power would be the “lesser evil”: None will resolve this crisis in favor of the people. None will eliminate male supremacy, racism, reactionary wars, the scourge of organized crime, environmental destruction, or the exploitation and poverty in which a large part of humanity lives.
These are times in which truly liberatory revolutions are possible, in Mexico, in the United States, and in other countries. What is most needed now is to forge a scientifically revolutionary leadership force devoted to breaking the chains of male supremacy and all forms of oppression, guided by the new communism developed by Bob Avakian. By applying this science to the concrete conditions in each country, we can forge a revolutionary people to overthrow the capitalist-imperialist system and build new, inspiring societies which will open the path to finally end all forms of exploitation and oppression. To achieve this, your participation and contributions are needed. Get in touch:
Aurora Roja, Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Organization, Mexico