Against patriarchy and capitalism, the 8M, back to stop the world
The next 8 March the third international women's unemployment is performed. Parties and groups who make up Anticapitalists Network, in brand new unit with the SEP Turkey, we have been deploying an international campaign for the strike and the demonstrations of 8M from a class perspective, socialist and revolutionary.
Shortly after taking the far-right Bolsonaro as president of Brazil, and shows its tracks misogynistic and homophobic attack: He retired to the LGBT community of human rights programs, aims to eliminate the right to abortion even in cases of pregnancy resulting from rape and also increase in two years the retirement age of men and women (thus negating our free housework). Definitely, EleNão the mass movement and its allies will not not a fight against such projects as retrogressive.
That offensive Bolsonaro is very similar to that being carried out by other governments right across continents, as Trump against abortion rights or against the LGBTI community Putin, but also to those who in the name of liberalism or socialism repressing their people and adjust as Ortega or mature. The European Parliament itself has recognized, In a special resolution the 13F, what "There is a global offensive against gender rights".
However, for the third consecutive year, the next 8 of March, International Day of Working Women, it becomes an important action to convene and class struggle that will shake the whole world: strikes, demonstrations and all kinds of combat actions converge during the third international arrest women. While last year actions were implemented in a 60 countries, this time already are expected to be more than 80.
If this fourth wave feminist world does not stop and goes ahead it is precisely because the offensive anti-rights deepens. This 8M we will find in each country taking to the streets, in unity, fighting for rights already conquered and we want to take away rights or we are still missing: against gender violence and femicide, for legal abortion, sex education, contraception, equal pay, secular state. A nice, fighting this capitalist and patriarchal system, who is the father of all violence around the globe.
Some examples of struggle
The Spanish state is a territory where the feminist wave stomp. The 15E concentrations were women in many cities for two reasons: 1) support their sisters in Andalusia before the inauguration of the new right-wing regional government Vox-PP-Citizens, Y 2) accumulate forces to the arrest of 8M. While the main trade unions (CCOO, UGT, USE) They call partial strikes, other (CGT, CNT) They call general strike. And for the first time the teaching federation CCOO also convenes the general strike. That is to say, movement expands.
In Argentina, Another mainstay of the wave, initiative of the anti-capitalist left the preparatory unit 8M assemblies will require general strike to trade unions: the CGT and CTA. Even before, in several public pronouncements, organizations -including dozens of reformists- They have expressed the political radicalization of the movement: "Patriarchy and capitalism will not fall: the need to throw ". Although former President Kirchner has called to link the green scarves (pro-abortion) and celestial handkerchiefs (anti-rights), below feminist activism, with young people at the forefront, reaffirms its struggle and it is clearly anticlerical and inclusive of sexual dissidence.
In Chile, Feminist Coordinator 8M called a general strike with a program of work demands, you reproductive, care and sexual rights. The prelude was the "feminist mayo" 2018, with shots of universities nationwide, sex education imposed on the public agenda. In July the "green wave" mobilized hundreds of thousands on the streets. And the year ended with more than a thousand women participating in the Plurinational 1st Meeting of Women Struggling. That joint motorize to workers in the public sector and private, despite the brake bureaucratic union leadership.
In Ireland, one of the most Catholic countries in Europe, by plebiscite, women and people made in May last year to eliminate the prohibition of the right to abortion that had been imposed in the Constitution by the Church. Yes to such removal it was blunt: She achieved over 66% of votes. And the feminist movement continued, so that in December both chambers of Congress, despite the conservative pressures, They had to approve the abortion law.
In the USA., cradle of #MeToo, star strikes women teachers, Black and Latino marches against racism and pro-migrant, and political turn left. It is no coincidence that there arises the manifesto for Feminism 99%, Nancy Fraser, Cinzia Arruzza y Tithi Batthacharya, where they claim: "Feminism should not start or stop seeing women represented at the top of society. You should start with the lowest and fight for the world they deserve. And that means pointing against capitalism. Feminism must be anticapitalist, eco-socialist and anti-racist ".
In other countries, with its own rhythms and intensities, Also the women's movement, LGBTI youth and community resist and face similar attacks, which they are part of the more general offensive with the capitalist classes try to reverse the crisis.
New-old debates
The heat of the feminist revolution that crosses the world few political debates are not reactivated. liberal feminist spaces and reformist seek to dilute the most advanced claims, questioning the institutions of the bourgeois state and, especially, class contradictions. That's why facing the 8M, for example, propose "strike and demonstrations only women", not criticize the bourgeois opposition and the Catholic Church and its evangelists partners.
Similar positions are other streams, as the autonomist feminism radical feminism that recycles its pair of half a century ago. The first is anti-parties, one is functional anarchic conception of bourgeois political power. The second is trans-exclusive, biologicista cases. And both located as the principal enemy to men and not to the prevailing socioeconomic system: the capitalism. In fact, as reformers, They share a multiclass and divisive approach struggles.
Instead, from Juntas and left and our parties in all countries where wage war, we raise the flags of our class and revolutionary feminism. We seek the widest possible unity of action of women and dissidence to mobilize on the streets, while we frame the feminist struggle in the strategic combat of the entire working class, youth and other popular sectors to defeat the father of exploitation and oppression: the capitalist and patriarchal system.
In the remaining days until 8M, We call on all countries to boost the general strike with mobilization. Requiring all unions and trade unions active general strike, for mass demonstrations, flood the streets and shake the world. We go through each and every one of our gender rights and against economic adjustment programs that the IMF, the World Bank, the G20, the European Union and other imperialist agencies unload on us and our people through the various bourgeois governments.
We are anti-patriarchal because we want to end all gender inequality. We are dissidents because those allied identities are also discriminated against and oppressed. We are anticlerical secular states because we demand and we reject any interference in religious fundamentalism and public life. We are anti-capitalists because this system is the father of all violence. We are internationalists because our struggle has no borders and is the same worldwide. And as our fight is not only social and cultural but also political, we organize and build national and international mainstream parties because our north is the revolution and socialism.
Together and to the left
reproduced from http://anticapitalistasenred.org
19.2.2019
