End the War on Women names a war waged every day against the bodies, labor, and lives of women, a war rooted in patriarchy and sustained by capitalism and empire. It takes many forms: the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 and the wave of bans on abortion and reproductive care that followed, domestic violence and femicide, the unpaid and underpaid labor of caregiving that keeps the economy running, and the poverty wages of the domestic workers, farmworkers, and garment workers who are disproportionately women. For working women, Black women, Indigenous women, immigrant women, and trans women, these harms multiply, a reality Claudia Jones described as triple oppression and the Combahee River Collective named as interlocking systems of domination.

The war on women has also been waged by the state itself. Under US colonial rule, roughly a third of Puerto Rican women of childbearing age had been sterilized by the mid-1960s through a program called simply "La Operación." In the 1970s, federal programs and the Indian Health Service sterilized thousands of Black, Latina, and Native women without meaningful consent, and as recently as the 2000s, women in California prisons were sterilized under pressure. Around the world, imperialist wars and occupations turn women's bodies into battlefields, from sexual violence used as a weapon of war to the killing of mothers and daughters under bombardment and siege.

Women have always fought back. Their resistance runs from the textile strikers of Petrograd and the women guerrillas of Vietnam, Algeria, and Guinea-Bissau to the Black women who founded the reproductive justice movement, the Argentine women who launched Ni Una Menos against femicide, and the domestic workers organizing across the world. Ending the war on women means fighting for bodily autonomy, safety, and economic justice together, as part of the struggle to end the systems of exploitation that make that war possible.

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