Faced with patriarchy and capitalism, the rise of fascism, and imperialist wars, the International Day for the Rights of Women and Gender Minorities must be an opportunity for us to regain courage, to mobilize through strike action, and to celebrate our victories. For even if they are often ignored, our struggles are taking place everywhere and are bringing a wind of revolution to the world! ---- Every year on March 8, we celebrate the struggles for the rights of women and gender minorities, commemorating the revolt of the Russian revolutionary women workers of March 8, 1917. But more than a day of celebration, it is also a day of strike action. Although this year falls on a Sunday, this call to strike remains relevant. Firstly, because the sectors where paid work is performed on Sundays are largely precarious and predominantly female. On the other hand, because we are also calling for a strike of domestic labor, which falls primarily on women.
Working towards our massive strike, we women and gender minorities, means highlighting how our capitalist and patriarchal world operates by exploiting us and assigning us to unpaid or undervalued work, all for the benefit of men. This world, through its pronatalist policies, seeks to control our bodies and impose reproduction upon them. It organizes patriarchal violence to maintain us in this social position. On the one hand, it exalts virile values in service of imperialist and warlike ideologies, and on the other hand, it attacks our access to healthcare and education.
Faced with this world, of which we are among the first victims, it is indeed we, women and gender minorities, who are everywhere also on the front lines fighting for peace, restorative justice, the transmission of knowledge, and peaceful coexistence with all living beings. Our struggles are those of Kurdish women defending their revolutionary lands, of Palestinian women fighting for their people's sovereignty against a genocidal state, of Sudanese women facing forced displacement and shameful sieges, and of Iranian women striving to overthrow the dictatorship. They are the struggles of Afghan women seeking alternative forms of education in the face of exclusion, of Yemeni women fighting for independence in patriarchal rural areas, of Sri Lankan factory workers confronting employer intimidation, of Mongolian pastoralists battling industrial farms that are draining the land, and of Brazilian women who organized one of the largest international anti-racist demonstrations on November 25th.
At a time when fascism is once again establishing itself as an acceptable opinion, at a time when the world echoes with the sounds of battle in imperialist wars, our lands, our bodies, and our labor are more coveted than ever by the ruling classes. Our anti-patriarchal struggles are therefore necessary, not only to defend the threatened rights of women and gender minorities, but also to build a society free from capitalism and all other forms of domination. Let's strike, then, and take to the streets on March 8th to remind the world that the revolution will be feminist or it will not happen at all!
UCL Anti-Patriarchy Commission
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?8-Mars-Greve-internationale-pour-une-revolution-feministe
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Link: (en) France, UCL AL #369 - Antipatriarchy - March 8: International Strike for a Feminist Revolution (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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