WORLD WORLDWIDE SPAIN News Journal Update - (en) Spain: CNT AIT statement for 8M: Patriarchy kills, capitalism finishes off. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 On March 8, the day of the working woman is celebrated, a historic day that

vindicates the struggle of working women in favor of equality and social justice,
something that is as important to vindicate today as it was more than 150 years
ago. years, when women workers in New York garment factories organized strikes
demanding higher wages and were retaliated by the police. In Catalonia, during
the first decades of the 20th century, the precariousness of the textile industry
brought women workers to the streets. Or like the workers in the match factories
in London, who struggled against endless days of work, struggles that have spread
and continued to this day, when the exploitation of women continues to be the
order of the day.

Currently there are still many pending issues so that half of the human race
stops being in a situation of vulnerability compared to the other half, and where
this inequality is best reflected is in the world of work. Companies are a
reflection of the patriarchal society, they look down on women and this is
evident in the discrimination they suffer both in access to promotion and in
salary. During the past year, the wage gap between men and women was 9.4% in
Spain, and in the European Union as a whole, women earn 13% less per hour worked
than men, which is equivalent to approximately one month and a half salary per
year. The same occurs with the possibilities of finding a job: in the last
quarter of 2022 the number of stops in Spain increased, placing the unemployment
rate among women at 4% higher than that of men, and, in the case of women, trans
women reaching the figure of 80%.

Another problem women face at work is sexual harassment. It doesn't matter if it
comes from a boss, co-worker or a client. All of this brings with it both
psychological problems and a work environment in which the victim is forced
either to give in at the expense of their own health or to leave their job, with
the consequent repercussions on their working, economic, and social lives.

Among working-class women there aren't many other options. Either you submit to a
labor market that does not care about your rights or your dignity, or you are
left unable to pay bills. You have to reconcile life between a job that exploits
and despises you, and a time that you do not have, but that forces you to always
be available for the needs of those around you, with which, the days are double,
those inside and those away from home. In care there is a responsibility that
mostly always falls on women. This is a reality that has a direct impact on the
problems that we have previously pointed out: they disable women from entering
the labor market and prevent them from accessing good training that allows them
to access a better-paid job. It is a vicious circle that we can only get out of
by breaking with this patriarchal and capitalist model of society that promotes
social classes and the unfair distribution of wealth. For this reason it is
important to develop a discourse that breaks with gender inequalities, but also
with social class inequalities.

 From bourgeois feminism, equality is claimed that allows women to reach the same
level and social status as men who wield power, run companies and take charge of
the institutions that the State uses to repress and subdue the majority of the
population. . We are workers and poor and from anarcho-feminism we do not seek to
equate ourselves to men in the exercise of power, nor do we intend to run
companies of the capitalist productive model, nor wear uniforms with which to
repress, punish and lock up those people who remain outside the margins of the
law. We do not want to have anything to do with the State because it is its
institutions that have been subjugating us for hundreds of years. This 2023 we
return to claim 8M as the International Day of Working Women. We reject all those
discourses put forward by unions, political parties and other organizations,
which under the fallacy of "plurality" hide the adjective "worker" and
paternalistically pay homage to women for being women. In this way, said
spokespersons for power eliminate the social class component of this very
important day of protest that, precisely, originates from the struggles of
working class women. That is the bourgeois strategy: not naming historical
episodes makes them transparent, as if they had never existed, between
forgetfulness and revisionism. Against the forgetfulness of our referents, those
who preceded us in the fight, we raise our voice. Working women, women in
struggle.  It is delusional to claim equality between men and women and not to
question the obvious social and economic differences that exist between a
businesswoman and her workers, between successful business women and their
domestic workers, among those who have the opportunity to access jobs that allow
them to achieve a good standard of living and those who end up in the clutches of
precariousness, with jobs in the fields or in the hospitality industry, or
directly excluded and criminalized as trans women or women of color. We do not
want equal opportunities to compete with men in their rotten and obsolete
patriarchal capitalist system, we simply want to destroy it in order to build a
model based on social justice and a fair distribution of work and wealth.  Kadin
ve erkek arasinda esitlik iddiasinda bulunmak ve bir is kadini ile çalisanlari,
basarili is kadinlari ve ev isçileri arasinda, kendilerine izin veren islere
erisme firsati bulanlar arasinda var olan bariz sosyal ve ekonomik farkliliklari
sorgulamamak hayaldir. iyi bir yasam standardina ulasmak ve sonunda tarlalarda
veya konaklama endüstrisinde islerle güvencesizligin pençesine düsenler veya
trans kadinlar veya beyaz olmayan kadinlar olarak dogrudan dislanan ve
kriminalize edilenler. Erkeklerle onlarin çürümüs ve köhnemis ataerkil kapitalist
sistemlerinde rekabet etmek için esit firsatlar istemiyoruz, sadece sosyal
adalete ve adil bir is ve servet dagilimina dayali bir model insa etmek için onu
yikmak istiyoruz.

https://www.cnt-ait.org/comunicado-de-cnt-ait-por-el-8m-de-2023-el-patriarcado-mata-el-capitalismo-remata/
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