8M, lilac tsunami rocked the Spanish State

Feminist strike shook the Spanish State, before and after execution. In Catalonia we did great deeds. With ranges that exceeded expectations, We analyze the challenges that the women's movement has ahead.
Posters on the walls, notes in newspapers, editorials on political TV, the hours before 8M indicated that something would be different. The organization down assemblies, the manifesto agreed in Zaragoza, informational picketing and days in every corner of the Spanish State paved the way for a historic action.
According to CC.OO. y UGT, It called the strike over 6 millions of people. More than 7.000 journalists who signed the manifesto "The journalists stopped". With thousands of women nationwide balcony hung her apron. With powers classless and empty shops, the day of 8M left a very strong message in Spain: feminist tide is here to stay and advance.

From country to country

The feminist movement in the Spanish State settled in promoting actions such as #Metoo US, #NiUnaMenos in Argentina, #VivasNosQueremos of Mexico, among others. The objective was clear, show that without women the world does not produce. Thus linking the two factors of inequality prevailing in today's society, patriarchy and capitalism.
Actions and strikes that were replicated in more than 60 countries, this International Day of Working Women was historic worldwide.
With massive mobilizations in Argentina, South Korea, China and Turkey, among other countries where thousands and thousands of women went out to the streets, There is a before and after 8M. Think about the situation of women in today's job market, It is the easiest way to understand inequality. By doing the same task as a man women perceive lower wages. In Spain the wage gap is a 18,8%. Why labor demanded equal pay strike. To lift the veil through which patriarchy watches women, We find many other inequalities.
When the strike was also called We knew we wanted to show all that invisible work women do and that historical mandate seems we were destined to do forever, without any recognition.
Why the strike was also care. Capitalism is the economic system that takes great economic returns to save care tasks. Care of children, laundry, make purchases, iron the clothes, make lunch, are tasks that seem to start with M Women. By perform not charge a penny, Nevertheless, Yes we stopped doing the, the world would be paralyzed.
A labor strike, and consumer care, the we strengthened among all, actions from early in each point of the country, using the methods of the working class. From the 5 in the morning we make pickets and cuts in major parts of the state, to show that we are here and that we will continue to strongly claiming equality in all fields.
From Boards and to the left we distributed thousands of leaflets in the days leading powers, factories, schools, hospitals and subway stops, as a contribution to add more women to strike. Also as a way to add to the debate our views.
With accumulated force, with shouts of anger, also joyfully, We found women were mobilized, as a human tide which many men were part. Madrid, Sevilla, Bilbao, Andalusia, Santiago, Barcelona, They were watching the sunset of the day with a renaissance violet tones.

All voices, all hands

“We are outcasts, We are gipsy, We are women with disabilities! We know trans, with a, queer, hetero! We are murdered, we are the prey, We are the ones who we were at sea!”
Thus began the manifest that at the beginning of the evening read and replicated in every manifestation. massive, overwhelmed, intergerneracionales, transverse, so were the mobilisations in the Spanish State. Some of the claims were echoed in the streets: “we want pensions we have won ", "The defense of life is at the center of economy and politics", "No means no, the rest is rape ", "We are up to our ass in both machirulo", "We want jobs, our surplus labor ", "Way home I want to be free, not brave ".
Unpaid domestic work or recognized, wage inequality, gender violence, the interference of the Church on political decisions, the claims were multiplied by the thousands and were felt.
Unfulfilled and insufficient state pact against gender violence was also criticized in the manifesto and in the streets. Approved for almost 5 months, the government has not yet delivered the € 200 million promised for this year arguing that it has approved the Budget of 2018.
Meanwhile we remain victims of femicide, education remains heteronormative and the feminization of poverty deepens.
And our demands were even further. We denounce the budgets allocated to schools operated by Opus Dei, removing money from public schools and secular. You can not continue subsidizing the Church Catholic, an institution that has among its representatives to people like Bishop Munilla who openly says that feminists have the devil inside. If you have the devil is synonymous with demand respect for our bodies, for our sexual identities, the right to decide, then we will gladly to hell Mr. Munilla. And his face will continue to say: "Whoever wants a priest to bless you". We are against that is allocated millions to your institution, while we are still dying for lack of money for public policies against gender violence.

The personal is political

In the late 60s Carol Hanisch, He published his test “The Personal is Political”, a statement that today helps us to understand the current phenomenon.
To say that the personal is political, It is to take the fight to reverse the oppression women suffer in our hands. It is to understand that we are conditioned by the existing inequality of power in society about men. Patriarchal oppression is an integral part of the prevailing socio-economic system: the capitalism, which is based on the exploitation of the working class by the bourgeoisie and is above all understand that to face the patriarchy is necessary to attack capitalism, to realize that so often we cry that "capitalism and patriarchy fall together".
It is because of that, have denounced the manifesto read Catalunya applying Article 155 Glad we expressed and for the defense of democracy and freedoms of our country, It was a totally necessary declaration. Because the rights that women must come together to conquer even the greatest freedom, respect for democracy and self-determination of peoples.
Express against racist policies also understand that the personal is political. The persecution of immigrants, the Aliens Act and CIEs are policies being implemented by the government of M. Rajoy order to prosecute those who reach the Spanish State in search of a chance to survive.
And if policy measures that women make in our hands it is, the demand for pensions that our grandmothers have earned is more than just claim they won the streets with great power. With miserly pensions, unaware of the time spent on caregiving tasks, there is no possible equal. Because, We demand the ratification of the Convention 189 ILO governing domestic work.
We are women and lxs pensionistxs lxs in recent weeks expressed a part of social discontent with the government of the PP and Citizens. Why, even though in his speeches to talk about overcoming the crisis 2008, the economic crisis, social and political was not overcome tensions and accumulates more.
End the capitalist system is the task that all of us must take into our hands, with the working class and as part of it. The exploitative and oppressive capitalism is the father of the violence they suffer daily, either at home, on the street, at work, in the media or by those who govern us. Capitalism and patriarchy fall together.

When a woman advances ...

The days before the strike president of the State, Mariano Rajoy said that the wage gap was not a subject on which the government had to review. Their spokesmen PP, They branded the strike "frivolous", "Unsupportive" and "elitist". In the same vein the leaders of Citizens, Ines you Arrimadas the head, They said they were against considering it anticapitalist.
But the feminist 8M tide was so strong that both Rajoy as Rivera tried to resettle appearing in public with lilac bow on the lapels of their coats. Nevertheless, nothing should expect from the representatives of the most ancient and conservative bourgeoisie of Spain. It is they who do not allocate budget to legislating state pact, or comply with the Equality Act.
Displayed with tie for equality, It is to demonstrate that women's tide has a weight and a range, neither they can ignore. But we know that they will not go much further than that, as they are there to ensure that the capitalist order is not modified. While we are here to shake the reigning order. Because while capitalism remains the dominant model, patriarchy continue having being functional.
Rivera's statements where he alleges he is "delighted to be leading the women's cross-debate ', were cynical and condemnable. At the same time, the representative of one of the parties of the conservative right should speak of feminism means that the tide is felt. Like you clarify both Rivera and Rajoy that we do not confuse us. We know that no bourgeois party will never be feminist, because our feminism is anti-capitalist. We go against the established order, we go against those that guarantee profits to world standards. Let yours games against legislating against us. The personal is political, we know that to achieve the changes we need we must take the fight to our and follow mobilized and organized. Nothing can expect from chauvinistic and conservative parties, what, even though they have women as leaders Inés you Arrimadas, perpetuate the global oppression of women.

Tsunami lila

Since Together and to the left, We argue that the women's movement is going through the birth of a fourth wave feminism. This is expressed in our last book published "Women Revolution".
Seated in the front and with the experience, women now face us stand against the system to achieve social equality.
In this way we are building and meeting with other movements internationally hold our same claims. That is why so this international strike will mark a before and after in the fight for our rights. Because we have said and shown that we are here and we will not stop fighting for our rights. Because even now try to channel our fight by way of laws, we know that nothing is without popular pressure to force them to comply.
Displayed with the lilac tie and waive the covenant of State is a sign of double standards of those who govern us. Be within the Parliament and accepted a law with insufficient budget is also an act of demagoguery.
What the women's movement needs is that every time we are more organized below, to take the political fight on our hands and not just to prove that, If we stop, It is for the world. But to let them know that if we organize, we can reverse the current order.
To give this fight we invite you to read us, you to follow us, that you organize with us in Juntas and the Left. So that every time we are plus we organize against this sexist and patriarchal system.
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