Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Italy 24th of November - The Women’s Demonstration as Reflect of a “Permanent Unrest” - MFPR as “Small Compact Group”... - Photo and video

The national demonstration on 24 November fully confirmed the determination, the extent of the women's movement. About 200 thousand, in the front row at this stage of the fight against the fascist-populist government and every its racist-sexist act, marched on street.
It has gathered and united the ongoing mobilizations in recent months, both local or national-wide, from those against the racist Salvini's measures against migrants, to the anti-fascist ones, to those against the attack on the right of abortion and the “safety package”, fuel for sexual violence and femicides.

The state of “permanent unrest" declared at the national meeting in Bologna in October has been actually implemented, giving rise to dozens of mobilizations.
Again, many girls, young women gathered on streets on 24th of November, many of whom participating for the first time this year, driven to be there by the current fascist-racist-sexist atmosphere and the consequent ongoing reaction.
Along the parade, slogans, placards, banners, speeches emphasized a definite NO!, the proud challenge of women against the control over our bodies, the atmosphere of fear, racism, male violence; rising the anger and rebellion of women, "I decide", "fear is not ours", etc.

Nevertheless, fascism, which is indeed the heart of this Lega/5Stars government, the main imprint from which racism and sexism derive, still is not being much denounced.

In the same way, generally, there was not a strong denunciation of the equally fascist-populist role, of attack on the life of women, played by 5Stars policies, by Di Maio. This has also to do with the non-visibility within the demonstration of the expressions of the struggles of proletarian women, of women workers, precarious workers -except the women in struggle for the "right to housing".
But this is a more general issue, that also has to do with the class forces and class positions -mostly petty bourgeois- acting and prevailing in this NUDM [not a women less] movement, in which, beyond some words, the necessary intertwining between gender and class, women's struggle and class struggle, is not recognized and sometimes is even opposed. But it also concerns the representative of the struggle of women workers, who still hesitate to play a leading role in the entire battle for the condition of women, because, as the Mfpr says, "all life must change".

The MFPR acted in this demonstration as a combative "compact group"...
Our banner: "Modern Middle Ages, Double Oppression - Women in Struggle for Revolution", our placards with the slogan: "We Women Irreducibly Against the Fascist Racist Sexist Government", the posters with Salvini upside down, our slogans against the Lega/5Stars government, against the principals behind the murdering migrants, women and children, against the police and the rapists in uniform, our speeches, had impact, have been noticed, appreciated; many, especially girls, asked our placards; many women joined us throughout the demo, others approached and gladly supported our contingent, sharing our slogans and speeches.

This led in some moments to unite/"contaminate" our slogans with those of other feminist groups, with a positive interaction.
And our logo was in fact our signature, our identity.

The leaflet the MFPR distributed strongly made clear that “...We all have the responsibility that the rebellion, the struggle of women may become one of the main ‘dangers’ for this government, the bourgeois State, the masters, the ‘men who hate women’. Let us organize ourselves to unleash the revolutionary fury of women! ... If it is true that violence against women is a systemic element, it is necessary to organize and extend the proletarian revolutionary feminist wing of ​​women's movement, countering the reformist influence of petty and middle bourgeois feminism, rising the question of the revolutionary struggle as central... We are the ‘extra gear’ that enriches the overall struggle, the revolutionary battle of the proletarians and people’s masses to overthrow this rotten capitalist system, from earth to heaven, for a new society.

The short but meaningful clash with the forces of police and even army, deployed at the metro, quasi as a "revenge" against the great success of the demo -in which some of Mfpr comrades were among the most determined- was in fact the natural conclusion of a beautiful day, because in front of the stupid, useless show of force by the police, “safety package” style, the firm opposition of women, and male comrades, finally won! forcing, the “force exhibitors” to open the turnstiles of the subway. A small but significant proof that to respond "blow to blow" (as written in our leaflet) wins, and that in this case women are once again shown to have an ‘extra gear’!

In the contingent of MFPR were the working women, precarious, dismissed, unemployed, targeted by the daily violence of the capital that denies work and rights. This every day struggle is crucial to organize and self-organize the proletarian women.

The number of protesters in Rome does matter, but it does matter even more the actual number of the organized proletarian women struggler, especially to counter the positions that try to reduce the women's struggle against sexual violence into a mere cultural and customs issue -as the bourgeois and petty bourgeois feminists do- instead of a fighting a system that produces such violence as result of the double exploitation and double oppression on jobs and in neighborhoods and cities. It is even more important if we really want to give a broad mass base and make the 'global' women's strike, announced for the next March 8, 2019, an actual strike. A road -the women's strike- opened by the Revolutionary Proletarian Feminist Movement when no one were speaking about.

Movimento Femminista Proletario Rivoluzionario – Italia

24.11.18




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