On this date of war, we believe it is appropriate to underline that inItaly, in 2023 alone, 118 women, of which 96 in the family or emotionalsphere, were killed at the hands of exes, partners, husbands, boyfriendsand the number continues to grow also in 2024. ---- The following is anelaboration of the "Ethics and Gender Policies Commission of theFederation of Anarchist Communists" which dates back to 8 March 2013,old in chronological order but very current in its contents which weentirely claim and which, as "Libertarian Alternative/ FdCA", we proposeagain as a contribution to the reflection as we approach 8 March 2024,in a world shocked by bloody conflicts which still see women personallyinvolved as victims.After centuries of silence, Italy too finally discovers feminicide. Andthe showgirl woman (object for sale) gives way to the victim woman(object of violence). It is sacrosanct to account for the increase ingender violence, undermine the silence of the system and denounce theabsence of support networks. But the media attention to extremevictimization remains at best a denunciation, it privileges good women,often overshadowing the irregular and the most fragile women(prostitutes, foreigners, trans), it denies the right to speak to thevictims, usually dead, to leave it to everyone around. Always, still,women are made weak.It is the profound economic crisis, the social cuts, the exclusion fromthe world of work that reduce them once again to angels of the hearth,relegated to the role of carers or "necessarily loving" mothers due tothe unaffordable costs of nursery schools, schools nursery schools andthe disappearance of full time in schools, disastrous economicsituations, families, at best, with a single income, seasoned withdiscontent, hardship and sacrifices, which leads women to beincreasingly exposed to gender violence, violence which manifests itselfthrough away in different forms that can lead to the extreme act.Economic dependence on the partner often gives rise to psychologicalviolence caused by having to ask for money at home in order to managethe "primary" needs of the family unit in a tiring slalom in search ofthe cheapest discount store.But to make ourselves strong we need to start talking about work, aboutrights, about claiming a space for women. Their ability to freethemselves from oppressive constraints, more or less consciously, and toopen up spaces of freedom and transformation depends on women's materialliving conditions.If capitalism has always considered us a reserve army for the labormarket, for centuries female workers have fought against subordinationto the logic of a female economy useful only as support for the family,which could therefore be satisfied with an economic value inferior.This issue of the magazine is dedicated to International Women's Day,March 8, nothing to celebrate! Libertarian Alternative/FdCAIf in the nineties, in the face of a stable male employment rate, therewas a growth in women's participation in the labor market, thiscoincided with a progressive "feminisation" of the labor market whichpaved the way for the "flexibility" or the progressive dismantling ofthe rights of male and female workers.And if the feminization of the market has also led to phenomena ofdesegregation in favor of women, at the expense of a widespreadphenomenon of subcontracting care work to other women, at the same timeit has meant an increase in demand for "poor" work and has favored theprocess of flexibilization - precarization. Thus the ideology of thenatural destiny of women in the role of caring for children, theelderly, the sick, the ideological counterattack, the so-calledpatriarchal and capitalist backlash, against radical feminism and thefreedom of women in public and private choices, has worked to disavow ofwomen in their claim to participate in public space at 360 degrees ascollectively recognized actors in the social space, in the life ofso-called democratic countries.The short circuit occurred in the (poor, more vaunted than real)implementation of the policies of "conciliation" of women's life andwork times, carried out in an unfortunate and contradictory way togetherwith the progressive dismantling of public welfare. Women were proposed,and now imposed by the economic crisis, to reconcile their manyobligatory commitments in the workplace and in keeping the destinies oftheir families going, instead of aiming for sharing andco-responsibility in care tasks.The progressive privatization of welfare has done the rest: very highservice costs in the face of very low wages for women, or theprogressive incentivization of part-time work, are leading to furtherprecariousness and the subsequent mass exit from the world of work,precisely in conjunction with the crisis that was prepared for a longtime and struck at the end of the last decade. The result is before theeyes of all of us, the women who have been forced culturally andeconomically to suffer massively flexibility and precariousness to thepoint of reaching levels of new poverty which reach tragic levels in thelives of separated or divorced women with children.Gender violence, a phenomenon that has always been present and strong inpatriarchal society against women who have expressed a desire forindependence and autonomy in the face of the rules given as natural andobvious within family ties, has thus increased because the value ofwomen in capitalism it has decreased exponentially and so has theability to actually act on requests for freedom that women todayexperience as necessary for their survival in a world that is becomingincreasingly oppressive.This is why as anarchist communist feminists we propose for this March8th to put attention back at the center of the living and workingconditions of women, young and old, citizens of the earth and not of asingle nation, in an international and European perspective ,encouraging spaces of cultural and economic-social awareness that leadto a new conflict between women against capitalism which has targeted uswith its desire to destroy any recognition of the dignity of work andthe worker, of exploitation without any rules.We must forcefully ask that in this historical phase there be no furtherdiscrimination to the detriment of women, who have always been affectedin their most delicate phases of life, starting from the right toself-determination.We strongly desire to meet again and find solidarity, sisterhood, anger,a constructive anger for our present and for a future that we do notwant and must not hand over to our young people with exploitation,violence, discrimination of Today.We want to take back our lives, the awareness of our value, ourabilities, we want to be able to live a dignified, free and conscious life.May it be women today who say enough and present themselves asrevolutionary subjects, in a common path that goes beyond allboundaries, because, after all, this is March 8th and it is the onlyMarch 8th possible. With the hope and desire to continue building it allyear round.http://alternativalibertaria.fdca.it/wpAL/blog/2024/03/02/8-marzo-nulla-da-festeggiaare/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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