Many
women are struck in terms of job. In spite of the distorted stats
propagated by of the government and the mass media, the reality is
that the jobs on the rise for women are ultra-precarious, with few
hours, very little wages, no rights, while the dismissals, the
open-ended layoffs schemes increase, as well as tough working
conditions and the hateful sexual discrimination, on maternity, when
women work or look for a job. At the same time, workers women are
denied the opportunity to retire earlier by not recognizing their
double work. The women who work in the sectors of services, cleaners,
the immigrants, the agricultural laborers, are over-exploited up to
conditions of modern slavery.
The
burden of the lack of social services and care, weighs like an
unbearable boulder on women, chained to a degrading domestic work.
Many living intellectual energies, of girls and students are
humiliated by a mortifying future.
On
the front of the low intensity conflict, of hatred against women,
made of femicides, rapes, sexual violence of all kinds, the bourgeois
State with its governments, its media, its control bodies, its forces
of repression - full of men in uniform, fascists, who hate, rape,
kill women – its apparatus of (in)justice, on the one hand they
feed the sexist humus, creating the objective and super-structural
conditions for such a situation, on the other hand they force a worse
cure than the disease, increasing by law the action of control,
prohibitions, desertification of social spaces, etc.
What
this bourgeois State fears more than anything else, which is its true
"problem", is the rebellion, the struggle of women, to
which the repression is more and more often the response.
The
advance of a modern fascism in our country, and at European, world
level, particularly in the imperialist countries, leads to exacerbate
the oppressive policies and ideology, exalting the sexist,
patriarchal, racist ideas, the hatred towards women as a reaction to
the women who rebel and break the family relationships considered
“property” of man.
Get
organized to unleash the revolutionary fury of women against the
state, the government, the bosses, the men who hate women.
When
the attack against women is overall, the struggle can only be
overall. When women struggle, inevitably they bring in the struggle
their whole condition of double exploitation and oppression, and
therefore a drive to fight with more strength and determination, they
bring a "plus" that must enrich the overall struggle of the
proletarians and people’s masses against the capitalist society.
In
the last two years hundreds of thousands women have taken to the
streets in our country, they have "discovered" the weapon
of the women's strike – the spark of which in Italy had been
ignited by the Mfpr since 2013. The large demonstrations and the
number of strikers show that the women's movement is big. The biggest
mass movement currently existing in Italy and in Europe.
Women's
strike today is a real, concrete (and not just virtual) weapon for
proletarian women who have nothing to lose but their double chains in
this society.
The
women's strike is a breaking, a challenge that brings into play and
increasingly changes consciousness, organization and balance of
power, raises the need to question everything - because it is the
whole life that has to change - and brings out the potential of the
revolutionary struggle of the majority of women.
Within
this large movement of women there are different positions – which
we can outline as left, center and right – reflecting the different
classes and strata existing among women (middle bourgeoisie, petty
bourgeoisie, proletariat). And today it is clearer and clearer on the
mass level that there are two positions, two paths.
Proletarian
women, who struggle and need a constant struggle, must win and play
their vanguard role in the general movement of women, to establish
the class point of view and perspective in all matters, that of the
proletarian revolution. For this, the autonomous organization, the
unity of proletarian women, is needed. But we also need to overcome
backwardness, particular or narrow views, so that proletarian women
fight against all attacks, on their work and life conditions as ell
as against all practical and ideological-cultural oppression, against
all sexual violence, against every repression of women's movement.
In
doing this the proletarian women must be "more feminist than the
feminists", because, suffering not one but all the oppressions,
they are the most determined and coherent force against the
capitalist system.
For
such an organization, as outpost in the struggle of the women and
proletarians the proletarian revolutionary feminist movement works
every day, in practice, in theory, in the fire of the struggles.
In
the recent election campaign the women's movement was the only
organized movement that said NO to any electoral instrumentalisation
by any party or list, effectively breaking the illusions of the
“electoral change”, because the bourgeoisie, its parties, do not
give and never will give any true solution to the many attacks,
discrimination, violence suffered by women every day, because the
interweaving of class oppression and gender oppression of women is
one of the foundations for the existence and preservation of the
capitalist society.
In
this electoral campaign so many girls, young precarious workers,
comrades form social centers, feminists, etc. were in the front row
in the fight against fascists, combative in the resistance and
response to the violent police attacks.
This
is important. Because first of all women can not think that the
"normal", peaceful struggle, the electoral way can be
sufficient to really change the things. A true liberation and
emancipation of the majority of women requires that this bourgeois
society is not reformed, improved but only overthrown by the
revolutionary struggle.
We
need a revolutionary proletarian feminist movement that unleashes the
rebellion, the strength of women, primarily the proletarian women,
against all aspects of oppression, exploitation, sexual violence of
this social system. The struggle of women must be marked by the
intertwining of the feminist demands with the proletarian class
struggle which is the discriminating factor to separate the
revolutionary proletarian feminism, which wants to overthrow the
bourgeois system from earth to heaven, from petty or middle bourgeois
reformist feminism that wants just to improve it.
All
the women who speak of “to change the ideas”, "culture",
"education", or are either naive or unconscious epigones of
the ideology of this bourgeois system. The prevailing ideas are those
of the ruling class. Without overthrowing the ruling class, without
the "revolutionary practice", the process of cultural
revolution to change ideas does not start. Any real advancement, any
practical break made by the struggle of women, is worth 1000 attempts
to transform ideas under this society.
Against
opportunism and pacifism, revolutionary proletarian feminism must
state that against the reactionary violence of this system women need
to organize their force, able of responding to the violence of the
bourgeois state with the revolutionary violence. The question of
revolutionary violence is not an idea but an important dividing line
related to the perspective of the overthrow of the capitalist social
system. The goal affects the radicalization of the struggle and the
forms of organization.
Engels
wrote: “Violence is the midwife of every ancient society, pregnant
with a new society”.
Let
us take back the revolutionary value of March 8
This
day was proclaimed by the communist women who fought for socialism.
Even today, the struggle for a true liberation of women is the
struggle for a socialist society resulting from the proletarian
revolution, in which women bring the “plus” of demanding and
applying a 360° change! A socialist society based on the proletarian
power in which women establish, and put into the practice, that no
real transformation of the conditions of oppression is possible
without a revolution in the revolution that breaks every residue of
material and ideological chains, that imposes the breaking of
patriarchal, sexist, ideas and practices and the transformation of
men.
A
socialist state that considers and treats the femicides, the rapes as
one of the most serious crimes against humanity, which puts the
implementation of both the objective conditions - work, socialization
of social services, the abolition of domestic work - and cultural,
ideological, freedom conditions, for a true liberation of women, of
the whole humanity.
It
is this battle, that the certain hope, need and dream of revolution
unites us to all the women who fight in arms, even giving their
lives, from India, to Turkey, to Kurdistan, from the Philippines, to
Peru, Palestine , etc.
Revolutionary
Proletarian Feminist Movement
March
8, 2018
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