WORLD WORLDWIDE GREECE News Journal Update - (en) Greece, APO:[Free Women]The role of patriarchy in the conservatism of social life (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Event - Discussion: "Women's resistance against patriarchal imposition" ----

Wednesday 05/07 at 20:00 in the park next to the Fargani cinema (opposite the
Freedom Center No Pasaran) ---- The miserable rusty women woke up again hordes of
rabid religions, homelands, families.. ---- In the present juncture, the
state-capitalist-patriarchal system attacks with all means and in every field of
social life and especially women. From the ban on abortion in Poland & the
overturning of the universal legalization law in the USA, to the hundreds of
femicides and their state cover-up in Mexico, rape to subjugate, terrorize and
degrade women as means of enforcement in war zones such as Ukraine and the
killing of women who do not submit to the patriarchal theocratic regime in Iran.
In a daily life where we count every day murdered, abused, raped women,
acquittals of rapists & child rapists, trafficking rings with the cover-up and
help of the police, innocent torturers & murderers. The judicial mechanisms of
"justice", a class and patriarchal "justice", which are there to persecute and
imprison every fighter and fighter, which condemn thousands of poor and
marginalized to imprisonment in prison graves, which murder immigrants every day.
they are part of a system that promotes social cannibalism, patriarchal and
generally authoritarian violence, protecting the powerful and their crimes,
terrorizing and throwing into the fire of cannibalism those who dare to resist.

In 2019, shortly after the election of the ND, the Holy Synod proposed the
establishment of the first Sunday after Christmas as "Day of the Unborn Child",
with the aim of protecting the child and to deal with the demographic problem,
while a few months later the January 2020, dozens of giant posters against the
right to abortion appeared in the most central metro station in Athens. In July
2021, the "Panhellenic Fertility and Reproductive Autonomy Conference" is being
organized with 11 church leaders and 4 other male scientists as main speakers who
were invited to speak about women's bodies! In January 2022, the Ministry of
Education promoted to the country's high schools "educational" videos on the
subject of Prenatal Education which reproduced the theory of the "unborn child",
which claims that the life of the infant begins at conception and indirectly
propagates the concept that abortion should be illegal as it constitutes murder!
On September 8, 2022, following a decision of the Holy Synod, a circular against
abortion was read in all churches.

At the moment, we see that immediately after the formation of the new government,
a series of issues, such as the legality of abortion, the demographics and the
further support of new families which is called to manage the newly established
Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family! In essence, what we are watching unfold
is a universal attempt to restructure the state-capitalist system struggling to
maintain its power by promoting conservatism and disciplining at all levels of
social life with the aim of returning to its basic principles: the nuclear family
and national homogeneity. The nuclear family as a structure adopted by this
system, on the contrary and through the dissolution of collective and community
life, is a useful tool for it, as for its very existence and also for its
perpetuation it is constantly looking for new workers and at the same time it is
fed by the shrinking of social bonds of solidarity.

The issue is purely about the control of women's bodies and by extension the
control of the population. If the discussion was about abortion or demographics,
then we should include in our agenda sex education from an early age,
contraception, free access to care and health for all of us and of course the
cultivation of consciousness in a direction of conscious and healthy maternity,
which arises only as an option. The narrative about the "morality" of abortion
that now seems to be universally adopted by state representatives, but also the
access itself, mainly concerns women of the plebeian strata, for whom behind the
glorification of women's role as mothers, their return is hidden in the sphere of
the private and their transformation into reproductive machines, with the primary
purpose of producing workers and soldiers to serve the needs of the
state-capitalist system.  Moral warfare and the disciplining of women is a
structure with purely political stakes, which not only degrades a woman's life on
an individual level, but uses women as harbingers of an extreme subjugation to
conservative ideologies. The church only as a helper could function in this
effort, and its medieval obscurantism again spreads like a threat and a curse
over women and society struggling for freedom.

Besides, the hypocrisy that governs the institutions' interest in the family and
the demographic "problem" becomes obvious when we talk about refugees and
immigrants. When children are drowning in the holds of ships with the help of
coastguard killers, when cops and parastatals attack refugees and migrants at the
border, when babies die in concentration camps in cardboard boxes trying to
escape the horrors of war, when 16-year-old Roma are murdered, then the state is
not only indifferent, but consents and covers up!

We as anarchists and as women organize and collectivize against what oppresses
us, aiming to spread the questioning of the limits placed on the role of women
and the ideas of those who oppose patriarchy and the control of our bodies, in
order to achieve a another blow to the world of power, defining our very lives!

No protest that does not choose to take to the road of struggle is enough.
Organizing from below and fighting against the rulers of this world is one way.
The elimination of gender-based violence passes for us through the struggle for
women's emancipation - a collective and total struggle, against the state,
capital and any form of power. No one alone against the tyrants who dominate our
lives! We clench our fists and offer a helping hand to every woman wounded by the
blade of patriarchy. We stand next to all the oppressed and all the oppressed, to
every rape victim, next to anyone who is hit by the thorn of patriarchy. Our
collective voice can break all bonds and tear down all walls! Until we turn the
flame into a fire and burn down the rotten authoritarian patriarchal system!
Until we make a world that will hold all the worlds in it.

We propose the collectivization, empowerment, organization and struggle for the
total demolition of the state, capitalism and patriarchy, for the reconstruction
of a world of equality, freedom, solidarity.

RESISTING DARKNESS & MODERN INTEGRATION

AGAINST STATE & PATRIARCHY WOMEN'S ORGANIZING AND STRUGGLES

FOR RULING AND ANARCHY

Free Women

of the Collective for Social Anarchism "Black & Red",
member of the Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectivities

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