Feminist Resistance Against Corporate Power: Life Over Profit, Peace Over War
April 24th, 2025 – International Solidarity Day against Transnational Corporations
Twelve years ago, over 1,100 workers—most of them women—were killed in the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh. This was not an accident but a brutal consequence of a capitalist system that puts profit before life. Today, the same logic fuels global exploitation, war, and environmental destruction—led by transnational corporations with impunity.
These corporations thrive on the exploitation of labor, plunder of territories, and destruction of the commons. Our commons are under attack by transnational corporations that impose extractive mega-projects, privatize water, health, and education, and turn nature and care work into profit. Whether through mining, industrial agriculture, energy mega-projects, or digital capitalism, they seek to turn everything—even our data, our bodies, our air—into a source of accumulation.
They are enabled and protected by free trade agreements, international financial institutions like the IMF and World Bank, and even multilateral organizations such as the United Nations, which have allowed corporate actors to influence public policy. Under the guise of “public-private partnerships,” they legitimize a model of development based on exploitation, exclusion, and ecological collapse.
Multinational corporations are not only profiting from the exploitation of labor and nature—they are also complicit in war, occupation, and militarization. The global war industry is dominated by corporate giants who produce weapons, surveillance systems, and military infrastructure used to enforce geopolitical domination and protect extractive and economic interests.
Supplying the weapons used in military invasions, repressive regimes, and illegal occupations by these corporations. Their shareholders profit from the suffering and destruction inflicted on entire populations—especially women and children.
From Palestine to the Sahel, from the Congo to the Amazon, corporate interests are embedded in the militarization of borders, the persecution of environmental defenders, and the repression of movements resisting extraction.
Moreover, Big Tech collaborates with militaries and governments to provide surveillance, facial recognition, artificial intelligence, and drone technologies used to control, monitor, and kill.
Militarism does not just happen in conflict zones. It is reproduced in our daily lives, through police repression, securitized borders, patriarchal violence, and corporate propaganda that frames resistance as terrorism. Militarization is a tool to guarantee the profits of transnational corporations.
Women are resisting—defending peace, seeds, water, care, and knowledge. They build alternative economies, create feminist sovereignties, and organize to protect life and the commons. In every crisis—climate, care, food, migration, wars—women are on the march.
We march for life over profit, peace over war. We reject the commodification of life and demand a radical transformation. On this April 24th, during the International Week of Feminist Solidarity Against Transnational Corporations, we call on all to:
- Take action in your territories.
- Denounce corporate violence.
- Amplify feminist alternatives.
Our bodies, our territories, our commons are not for sale.
Globalize Resistance, Globalize Feminist Solidarity, Dismantle Corporate Power!
We March Against Wars and Capitalism,
We Defend the Sovereignty of Peoples and Buen Vivir!
World March of Women
