WORLD WORLDWIDE BRAZIL News Journal Update - (en) Brazil, FARJ: BEYOND 8M: Strong and organized women, with clenched fists against attacks and withdrawal of rights! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 In the midst of a context of increasing social vulnerability, food insecurity and

hunger, climate crises, social tragedies and threats to the rights of the poorest
people, the lives of women remain in constant danger, crossed by the social
problems generated by the system of capitalist and state domination. ---- In July
2022, the UN released data on hunger and food insecurity, warning of the fact
that almost 830 million people are hungry in the world; 2.3 billion people face
food insecurity. In Brazil, it is no different, we are in the country where there
are queues of little bones. We arrived at a March 8th in which poor, black,
indigenous and peripheral women face extremely precarious social conditions and
fight for their survival and that of their own. At the same time, the
counter-reforms, the spending cap imposed since the Temer government and the
neoliberal assault against social rights further intensify the difficulties we
are going through, bringing direct consequences for working-class women - both
for those who support their families , single mothers or those who survive alone,
as well as those who make up families with partners who are also poor.

In addition to the scenario of poverty, social tragedies such as the Yanomami
people and the tragedy on the coast of São Paulo are also threats to the lives of
women. Both, crises provoked by the operation of the capitalist system and the
State, intensified in the Bolsonaro government, whose consequences are felt by
the original peoples and by workers. Quilombolas, indigenous women and others who
live in areas marked by predatory extractivism are victims of moral harassment
and sexual violation, often doubly subjugated by gender and race/ethnicity
prejudices. Violence against these women is almost always invisible: trafficking
for the purpose of sexual exploitation, including very young girls and children,
and the weakening of the ancestral role of these companions.

In this same country, we still suffer from gender violence, with Brazil being one
of the countries with the highest rates of violence against women and LGBTQIA+
murders. According to the Brazilian Public Security Forum, in 2021, 1,341 women
were victims of femicides and, in the first half of 2022, there were 699; 62%
were black; intimate partners or ex-partners were the perpetrators in about 80%
of cases. The FBSP also recorded an increase in the number of records of rape of
vulnerable against girls and women and the rate of "domestic violence": records
of rape of vulnerable grew by 12% in the first half of 2022, compared to the
first half of 2021; average of one girl or woman raped every 9 minutes in Brazil;
a woman suffers domestic violence every 2 minutes in the country.

Assault rates against LGBTQIA+ rose by 35.2%, homicides by 7.2%, rapes by 88.4% -
data from the 2022 Brazilian Public Security Yearbook. With the rise of the
extreme right, this violence, both physical and as symbolic, it intensified even
more, deepening cases of LGBTQphobia and murders. According to data from the
Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN), of the Ministry of Health,
systematized in the Atlas of Violence 2022, violence against homosexuals
increased by 5% from 2018 to 2019; violence against bisexuals increased by 37.1%.
The extreme right's attacks have materialized in many other forms of violence,
including those of an institutional nature. If LGBTQIA+ have historically
suffered from violence and lack of rights, between 2019 and 2022, the escalation
of persecution and hunting for rights, as well as the crusade to stop bills
benefiting the LGBTQIA+ population, such as the formation of diversity councils
sex, have grown substantially.

Another element to consider when we talk about gender violence is the increase in
the number of women imprisoned in Brazil. In the last year, Brazil overtook
Russia and became the third country with the most female prisoners in the world.
Among the reasons for this increase is the use of pre-trial detention for
drug-related crimes, and the high penalties applied in these cases. Traumas such
as helplessness, sexual violence and domestic violence mark the stories of most
incarcerated women. Most of these women are black and from the poorest
neighborhoods. As they are mothers or those responsible for caring for family
members, incarceration leads to other social consequences, with unassisted families.

Based on these data, we understand the project of society that those at the top
want to preserve. In recent actions by the far right, it has become clear that
those at the top compose and finance groups affiliated with this ideology.
Therefore, we are talking about the interests of those above against the
interests of those below. The project is to maintain a State that continues to
feed gender inequalities as a mode of domination, further increasing this
domination. A society that maintains the capitalist, racist and patriarchal order
from the oppressions, violence and death of those below.

In this process, the advance of the extreme right has played a catalytic role, as
it also highlights the crusade of the State, representing the interests of the
dominant classes, over our bodies. With a flood of PLs, the extreme right benches
seek, at the municipal, state and federal levels, to advance the control of the
State and the capitalist system over our bodies and lives. So, today, fighting
the extreme right requires fighting the power of capitalism and the state over
us, in the long term.

Attacks against laws that would guarantee some small defense against violence or
for the modification and creation of other laws that impede the advancement of
women's rights reveal a project to increasingly subject women, transgender people
and all people who flee the standards of sexuality imposed by the prevailing
system of domination. In the end, it is the maintenance of a system in which the
dominant of the rich, white and patriarchal classes continue to hold power over
others.

In the short and medium term, we need to fight against the latest setbacks that
directly affect women's lives. This includes the repeal of counter-reforms
(Social Security, Labor, New High School) and the Spending Ceiling, which
directly interferes with social rights policies, above all, Health and Education.
In addition, it is necessary to strengthen resistance against the various
projects that are being processed in the municipal chambers, in the legislative
assemblies, in the federal chamber and in the senate, and other attacks. The
election of the Lula/Alckmin ticket - and its alliances with sectors of the right
- is insufficient to block all extreme right-wing projects against our rights. We
need to fight these projects from their roots, overthrowing the ideas that seek
to legitimize them. It is also necessary to build from below experiences and
organization of women's collective and individual self-defense, it becomes
increasingly urgent.

In this sense, the 8M should not be just a date setting, but a moment to target
actions that serve self-organization and pressure for better living conditions
for women. Being in the streets and other spaces on that day should express the
strength of women from the people in the fight for their rights, which requires
combativeness and clenched fists!

We, organized anarchist women, will continue on the streets, in union struggles
and in every workplace, in struggles in housing, study, in women's collectives
and in social struggles in general, together with women of the people and within
the class hardworking, with combativeness and for the construction of People's Power!

Coletivo Mineiro Popular Anarchista (COMPA)
Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro (FARJ)
Libertarian Socialist Anarchist Organization (OASL)
Libertarian Swoop (RL)

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