For yet another year, Catalonia's feminist movement takes to the streets as part of the strike and actions of 8-M, International Women's Day. The March 8th evening demonstration in Barcelona drew the largest crowd, with thousands of women taking to the streets of the Catalan capital. Despite the political and institutional noise around this date so marked by the feminist movement, the participants have united to cry out "against the racist and capitalist patriarchal cishetero system".
🟣 40,000 marchers fill central Barcelona for International Women's Day
The March 8th demonstrations in Barcelona in images
Combative and free
The front of the 8-M student demonstration in Barcelona, with 3,300 people taking part according to the city police. The demonstration started around 12.15pm in Plaça Universitat.
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Messages to the world
The streets of Barcelona filled with banners with messages like "Together, free and without fear".
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Students on the 8-M
Three young women at the head of the demonstration in Via Laietana. Thousands of students marched through the streets of Barcelona on International Women's Day.
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Trans collective
A person from the Trans collective in Plaça Sant Jaume, who received the support of all the marchers with the slogan: "Trans women are also women".
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No means no!!
On Carrer Jaume I, a banner with the message "I also like women and I don't harass them".
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Student feminism
Luci, 18 years old, in Plaça Sant Jaume after the 8M student demonstration.
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Inclusive feminism
The late afternoon demonstration for International Women's Day begins at 6:30pm in Plaça Universitat, with a young woman claiminf inclusive feminism wearing a gorilla mask.
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Feminist strike
Head of the 8M demonstration on Gran Via, the banner reads "Feminist strike against the cishetero, patriarchal, racist and capitalist system".
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Burn it down
A group of girls lit torches on the Gran Via shouting "let's burn down the system"
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All survivors
A banner states that "100% of women are survivors of gender violence".
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To the beat
The demonstration arrives at the Arc de Triomf to the beat of drums. 40,000 people fill the streets of Barcelona on International Women's Day.
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Women's love
A series of banners claiming unity among women at the International Women's Day demonstration.
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