On the Day of Working Women, strike

This 8M in Catalonia is lived in a special way. Not for less. For the first time in history, thousands of women will strike alongside 150 countries to show the world that without us there is no production, no reproduction.
Born in the heat of the unemployment they carried out 50 countries in the 2017 and worked from below for a whole year, This first international feminist strike aims to make oppression visible, inequality, injustice, the sexist violence and the precariousness that we suffer, that we are half of the world's population.

Under the slogan Together we are more! is being organized throughout the Spanish State, From below, in assemblies, plenary sessions, meetings, talks and meetings, the first great feminist strike, which will be not only work, but also educational, and consumer care. Because we are many and diverse, with multiple identities, but crossed by the same reality, patriarchal capitalism that exploits and oppresses us as a system.
Although he 8 March is always a date to claim the rights that women have won throughout history., this year has the force of internationalism. For the first time, millions will strike worldwide, to make you feel the tide that the new world feminist wave is generating.

and EE. THE. Women were the first to come out en masse to reject Trump's policy, for sexist, homophobic and xenophobic. We also did it to repudiate its right-wing orientation and defend the achievements achieved during years of struggles..
We will take to the streets with the strength that Kurdish women give us, who fight for their liberation as a people and as a gender. At the head of the YPJ (Women's Protection Brigades) They play a vanguard role in the expulsion of ISIS, in the recovery of the city of Kobane, in Afrin and in the confrontation with the attacks of the Turkish army.
In Honduras, feminism struggles to be heard after the harsh confrontations experienced at the end of 2017 between protesters against the election results and army forces.
In Catalonia they were on the front line to guarantee the 1-O Referendum despite the repression carried out by Rajoy's Civil Guard, the King and the Constitution of '78. Now it was the pensioners who gave an example of dignity along with the thousands and thousands who took to the streets.
And so, Examples continue in every corner of the planet where women are a fundamental part of the ongoing struggles.

To the fellow streets

Next 8M we will say enough to sexist violence, to attacks, humiliations, marginalizations and exclusions, everyday and invisible. but this year, Besides, We will make visible the productive and reproductive role that women have in society.
It won't just be a labor strike, but also care and consumption. Because it is intended that we all participate in this strike. Those of us who have paid employment, those of us who work in our house or in those of others, those of us who take care of children, older, or dependent people, those of us who work on our own, the students, We will all be part of this global and historic strike.
Will be careful, because we will give visibility to a job that no one wants to recognize and maintains the current capitalist system by assigning this role to women, saving millions of euros a year. We demand that household chores be shared socially.
And how education is a fundamental part of our daily lives, we will fight for public education, free, secular and feminist free of heteropatriarchal and imperialist values.
We do not accept that the Catholic Church or anyone else gets into our beds or decides what we can and cannot do.. We do not accept the bourgeois double standard that prevents legal abortion, causing the death of thousands and thousands of poor women, while the rich practice it in the best conditions.

Let's make the strike felt

The background to this strike was 2017 the women's strike that in Spain lasted half an hour at noon. This year the goal is for the strike to last 24 hours.. For this, the CNT and CGT unions have already provided their support and support since the 00:00 from 8M until 24:00. While UGT and CCOO (the majority unions) They join in and call a two-hour strike for the morning and afternoon shifts.
This union support for the first feminist strike demonstrates the strength that the women's struggle is gaining throughout the territory..

Citizens and the PP against women's rights

While thousands and thousands of us are organizing below so that the measure is felt, We obtain the support of the unions and invite our colleagues to join this action, taking our place in production, Spanish right-wing parties are openly against us fighting for our demands.
This was made known by Inés Arrimadas, who declared that she did not support the measure because “it is a strike in which anti-capitalism is also claimed.”. At a good time, How is our feminism not going to be anti-capitalist?, If capitalism is precisely the father of all the violence that women suffer daily.
They are the Inés Arrimadas, the Patricia Reyes, the Isabel García Tejerina and the list continues with all the representatives of the bourgeois parties, those who benefit from perpetuating the global oppression of women. Apart from benefiting from the exploitation of the entire working class, men and women, the (and the) Bourgeois women also gain from free female domestic work.
For that basic reason, and in many different ways, through false ideologies, laws, customs and prejudices about “femininity” or “romantic love” that camouflage the current stereotype of women, The entire institutional framework of the capitalist system works daily to maintain this inequality of power.. And even if they go out in the media declaring that they want to reduce the wage gap, Their political ideology is in total harmony with double oppression.
With a wage gap of 23%, an unbearable unemployment rate that is a 3,5% highest among women, with a salary level that is at the bottom of the scale (a 25% they charge 11.824 € per year or less), with a greater number of women working part-time, demonstrate against a strike that aims to make all these inequalities visible to overcome them, is to be against the feminist struggle.
It is also being against pensioners, that will be part of this strike and which demand “co-ownership of pensions, that the time spent on care tasks, or what we have developed in the field, be recognized in the calculation of pensions as well as labor work and the ratification of the agreement 189 of the ILO that regulates domestic work”.

To the Strike comrade

In Catalonia this feminist strike occurs in a particular context. We are experiencing a repressive escalation with imprisonments, exiles, persecution and censorship. To the charges of 1-O, They were followed by cuts to democratic freedoms made by Rajoy and protected by the King and the '78 Constitution.. We are for the cessation of 155, freedom of political prisoners, the annulment of judicial cases, self-determination and the right of the Catalan people to be a Republic.
For the defense of our rights, because we will continue until we get the world we want. We refuse to be simple reproducers and sustainers of the system and the patriarchal order.. Liberation and the definitive recognition of our rights will come with the defeat of capitalism and fighting alongside the working class.
Let's make our strength felt. Let us be thousands in every part of the world. Let's show what, If we stop, the world capitalist order does not work.