WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #5-25: March 8th in the square again! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Another March 8th. And despite the situation of general social

oppression, despite the weight of the specific sexist oppression that
marks our lives, despite all the reasons that push us to be in the
squares on an international day that wants to be a cry for freedom,
despite all this there are those who continue to talk about March 8th as
a ritual appointment. ---- To tell the truth we would like March 8th to
be a ritual appointment, a date awaited to be enjoyed as a beautiful
celebration, as we do on New Year's Eve. But it is not like that.

The reality is different, despite the increasingly pervasive commercial,
corporate and even military pinkwashing, despite the alleged feminism
linked to the breaking of glass ceilings, a vulgar way of justifying
power, despite the absurd proclamations of those who deny the existence
of patriarchy, be it the Valditara of the moment or some intellectual in
constant search of visibility. The reality is different and requires all
our energy, our presence in the squares, our daily work, to break the
oppressive blanket that is marked by sexism.

It is clear how gender issues intertwine and cross a number of issues,
from economic to political to social.

Low wages, precariousness, unemployment, massive cuts in services and
social spending: a disastrous situation, made dramatic by what has been
a war economy for some years now. And this situation inevitably brings
with it a revival of familism. Compared to the need to cope with care
activities, the services that are missing, as well as the loss of
subjective income and economic autonomy, the family represents for the
capitalist system the most convenient and least expensive solution,
consolidated over the centuries by the patriarchal setting and
disciplined according to a model of division of labor rigidly set on a
sexist basis and very congenial to capitalist needs. A model that is
nevertheless subjected to the contradictions of modern society and
therefore needs to be reinforced by a relentless family propaganda that
strongly re-proposes sexist morality, traditional roles and above all
the reproductive function assigned to women as an unavoidable social
task. The imposition of motherhood as the only horizon of female life,
the fierce contrast to the self-determination of women and
subjectivities with a uterus who deliberately and consciously do not
want to submit to the reproductive obligation, the homophobia directed
against all non-conforming people are elements that unequivocally mark
the reality of the Melonian era, certainly in continuity with previous
historical and political phases, but with a further level of social
impact that multiplies its scope.

That patriarchal and sexist structure of division of labor and
imposition of behaviors referable to binary roles that represents a
constant characteristic of capitalist society assumes in the current
phase, with the government in office, the effective dimension of precise
legislative acts. It is a very important political step, which we must
be aware of.

Never before have demographic policies aimed at increasing the birth
rate, fighting abortion and contraception, and persecuting those who
evade the reproductive task been intensified; never before have there
been specific legal provisions and openly homophobic government acts,
aimed at people who reject the binary conception by escaping the family
dimension.

What is happening with the government currently in office takes the form
not only of a general ideological crusade, already seen in other
moments, but also of concrete and detailed legislative acts.

And the Government does not act alone.

As always, we have the reactionary sectors supporting these policies,
first and foremost the Catholic Church and the military apparatus.

Pope Bergoglio, who to some seemed captivating thanks to the faded
statements on war and environmentalism released while skillfully taking
care of the business, interests and profits of his state, the most
stable in the world; the same pope, who also managed to appear affable
in many situations, has nevertheless never missed an opportunity to wage
open and furious war on the self-determination of women and free
subjectivities by constantly reiterating traditional morality, the
necessity and naturalness of the roles assigned to the sexes, waving the
scarecrow of gender and the perpetual condemnation of abortion. A war
that the Catholic identity fervor exalted by the occasion of the Jubilee
year can only make more aggressive.

Similarly, it should be considered how the massive increase in
militarism linked to the current phase of external and internal war
reinforces sexist policies. It is known that in actual military
operations, rape has often been used as a weapon of war, making women's
bodies a battlefield. It is equally known that sexism and
femonationalism are recurring characteristics of militarist and colonial
policies, just as the mission of liberating women from oppressive
regimes has often been flaunted to justify military occupations,
policies of aggression, and the exploitation of territories and
resources. But it is equally evident that militarism itself represents
the cult of strength, violence, hierarchy, roles, subordination, the
exaltation of the victorious male, of virility and male supremacism: a
patriarchal, sexist and macho matrix that no pinkwashing of the army, no
opening of the military ranks to women and even to LGBTQIA+ people can
scratch and that is constantly re-proposed in our daily lives, in
schools, in the streets, in any context of an increasingly militarized
social life.

In comparison to all this, the daily struggle is a necessity, the square
of March 8 is a necessity. Transfeminist squares are made of concrete
bodies that oppose the materiality of the struggle to daily oppression.
The general strike, which also this year characterizes the day of March
8, wants to represent in a real and certainly not symbolic way the need
for a break and interruption from the perpetual exploitation of
productive and reproductive work. The transfeminist struggle goes
through a number of aspects and problems because we live in a society
where sexism and patriarchy are systemic. It is essential to be able to
grasp the connections between the various issues that determine
hierarchy and exploitation, it must be done without establishing a
hierarchy of problems and solutions. The transfeminist gaze is also our
gaze, the gaze of so many anarchists who daily fight to radically
transform the existing in a comprehensive perspective of social
revolution, with their active presence in the workplace, in collectives,
in movements. And in the squares of March 8th. In every city and
throughout the world.

https://umanitanova.org/8-marzo-ancora-in-piazza/
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