Russia: Freedom to Khachaturyan sisters

From Juntas and the Left, and MST, We take the initiative developed by the Russian Socialist Movement and other organizations. We do so to demand the release of the sisters Khachaturyan. We stand in solidarity with Mary (17 years), Algerian (18 years) Christian y (19 years). The three Russian sisters 14 last June, They were charged with murder in her rapist group, his father. facing up 20 years in prison.

The sisters were victims of: violations, hits, physical abuse, verbal and humiliation for years by her father. His actions were in self-defense, in order to end this torment that marks their lives. Abuses suffered by the sisters, unfortunately they are repeated very often. Although there are expressions of resistance against patriarchy in Russia, and although there have been major claims as legalizing abortion; on gender violence, femicide figures are brutal, and continue naturalizing practices of abuse on women and dissidence.

But the feminist wave and the shock wave is international, and Russia and the Putin government will not be the exception. Already in the last elections, several women have been candidates in various positions, quite forbidden issue for them feminist activists. Russian band Pussy Riot activist, flying the flag of feminism, It has become the national collective best known inside and outside Russia. And beyond nuances that may have, it is indisputable that his actions highlighted the inequality between men and women and discrimination against the latter in all areas of the state in that country, as the persecution of dissidence.

This feminist hello world, It is also reflected in this campaign, looking for freedom of sisters, against the official voice, It disseminated on media. An official voice that only descriptively narrates the amount of cuchillazos that Crestina gave his father, or the number of hammer blows with which Algerian hit her rapist; but says nothing of the physical torments with which the father struck her three daughters for years. Torture that many young people must still endure.

Like police and judicial complicity that women face at every complaint when manage to make. Putin's government represents the most reactionary and patriarchal capitalism, and at the same time, in the country of the Russian Revolution which was advanced in rights for women and the LGBT community, reserves of struggle that does not regress in their claims.

Feminist wave is international

Visibility to brutal patriarchal, the feminist hello world, It allows naturalized sexist behavior, to question, and are combated. We mobilize women against abuse, inequality and patriarchal justice. The result of this force, and progress in the consciousness of thousands, Violators of the herd in Spain, for example, whose victim was only 18 years, They were sentenced to 15 years in prison. A positive ruling as a result of social rejection and campaigns of different organizations, including Boards and to the left, and Sun, Spanish section of the International Socialist League.

The process of the green tide in Argentina during the 2018, It was also supported by women and dissidence in the world. And the green scarf became a worldwide symbol for legal abortion. The pressure of thousands of youth in hundreds of cities worldwide, for the sovereignty of our bodies, by free identities and the legalization of abortion, corralling will clerical governments and chauvinistic, to try to stop the process divert. But do not get it and feminist wave goes out again and again, and even with ebbs, at every injustice manifests itself strongly.

Feminism socialist and internationalist

Our anti-capitalist feminism is, antipatriarcal, class and socialist, Besides, deeply internationalist. Active and militant solidarity of socialist feminism we practice, It is reinforced by campaigns by the claims of women from around the world since, if they advance claims anywhere, this mass movement is strengthened overall scale. Each conquest achieved, each resistor won, every step taken by the international struggle of women, It is a blow against sexist and patriarchal capitalism, and it puts us in a better position to advance our agenda throughout.

In the immediate time, from Boards and to the left and the MST, we will promote initiatives for the freedom of the unjustly persecuted for justice sisters Putin. If the sisters are free Khachaturyan, all women in the country and the world, we will have taken another step against double capitalist oppression we suffer. It is 24 June then, around the world, Let's raise a flag: #FreeKhachaturyansisters!

Andrea Lanzette, Together and to the left / MST / Argentina section of the LIS

reproduced from International Socialist League | 24.6.2019