The commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches also coincided with International Women’s Day, a day first declared by the Socialist Party of America and now celebrated with thousands of events around the world, from Nepal to New York. In Mexico City, the mothers of 43 students missing since September after a police attack in Guerrero joined the Women’s Day march.

María Elena Guerrero: “I want to thank you for joining the movement of women and the mothers of the disappeared of Ayotzinapa. In these five months that we have struggled against the government, our pain has been converted into rage. We are in this struggle to find our sons alive, because they took them alive.”