The
Revolutionary Proletarian Feminist Movement, generated organization of PCm Italy, salutes today,
from this international meeting, with deep revolutionary joy, the 10th anniversary of the formation of the
Communist Party of India (Maoist),
party leading the great people's war in
India against the
increasingly reactionary Indian state and imperialism; we salute all the members of the Party and the revolutionary masses fighting in India
and in particular the many women who in the march toward to achieving of a new power, the people’s power, which represent an
integral broad and decisive part of it; and we also pay homage all
the men and women who fell martyrs in battle,
raising even higher the red flag of revolution.
At the
International Conference in Hamburg, on November 2012, coinciding with
International Day against the violence on women, we launched the proposal to
construct a bridge/link of solidarity/support with Indian women “both to acquaint the popular and proletarian
women masses in our country the war of the Indian people and the direct
protagonism in it of the many women comrades and thousands Indian women, and,
on the other side, find the strength and the example to let progress also in
our country the revolutionary process in which women will be protagonists,
especially the proletarian women”.
And indeed we started to build that bridge since that 25 November, when at the international level we particularly dedicated that day to the Maoist
women in India; and then advancing in our country towards new and important stages of struggle in the spheres of women, especially with the
first historical women's strike on 25 November, 2013 and more recently on March 8
this year, each time directing our
internationalist gaze to all workers and proletarian women struggling in the world, especially to all revolutionary
women who are at
the forefront of people's wars. We
wanted to raise hands higher and higher
and shake them together
with our sisters in India, because India is becoming a symbol of the violence of the capitalist and imperialist system, particularly and
in all aspects against women, and today, with the new
Modi’s fascist and pro-imperialist
government, this process quickly increasing.
In India, the
old feudal traditions, the family
tribalism, religious fundamentalism
in the vast areas
out of the big cities, are
combined in the modern megalopolis with the savagery of the bunch, the new bullying,
where imperialism adds new aberrations to
the old ones.
Anuradha Gandhy, comrade Janaki, deceased leader of CPI(Maoist), who
developed the theory of the revolutionary women’s movement in India and
organized them in several areas, in an interview to Poru Mahila on March 2001 organo
of Krantikari Adivasi Mahila Sanghatan, speaking about women in urban areas,
said: “Though all women in India are
under feudal, capitalist, imperialist and patriarchal oppression, it is seen in
various forms in different areas, the urban and the rural areas. The working
class and middle class women in urban areas have some specific problems. Firstly,
if we look at the problems inside the family, even in urban areas women are oppressed
by the feudal culture. (…) The unmarried girls are under pressure to marry men
from the same caste and same religion(...) Even if a woman wants to work outside
home she will have to take the permission of her father, brother or husband.
People of some castes and religions (for e.g. the Muslims and Kshatriyas) do
not like their woman to do jobs. So it becomes inevitable for women to fight
even for economic independence. (…)Especially since the past 25-30 years may be
India
is the only country in the world where the new crime of burning brides for
dowry has come into vogue. (…) Women in urban areas have many opportunities to
step out of home and work. They get jobs in factories, offices, schools,
hospitals and shops. But in many jobs they are not paid equally with men. (…) On
top of it they have to face harassment from the contractors and the men under
whom they work. This takes place in many forms. Not only the working class
women but even educated middle class women are facing such harassment. (…) Lastly,
another point is the influence of imperialist culture is very great on the
urban women. They are not only influenced by consumerism but are also victims
of it. This is increasing day by day. Instead of human values they are giving
more importance to beauty and beauty products. As a result there is an
environment of insecurity due to atrocities and harassments in the urban areas.”
But especially in India violence,
killings of women – against which in
recent period large mass demonstrations took place in several states, in which the participation
of women, youth was huge – are perpetrated directly by the Indian state as
instrument of repression,
especially in rural areas where the
people's war advances and raping
of peasant, Dalit
women by the police, military and
paramilitary forces, has become a routing as part of
Operation Green Hunt, and rapes are hideously
combined with torture against the Maoist women in custody. Many women, comrades, however, have turned this violence, the hard conditions of their life, the state repression into a powerful factor
of rebellion and joining the people's war. Around 40% of fighting force consists of women and they
constitute a fundamental part of the
revolutionary people’s war led by the CPI(Maoist).
“People’s War had shattered the hesitations
of the women.” said Anuradha Gandhy speaking about the adivasi women who
massively joint people’s war in DK, but it occurred in all areas affected by
people’s war, so that the State fears the numerous participation of women and
tries to oppose them in many ways.
So, that of
women is one of the basic issues addressed by the CPI(Maoist), to develop and
strengthen the revolutionary militancy of women. Many of them are cadres of the
PLGA, yet steps have to be done to fully assert their leading role. Anuradha
Gandhy wrote: “…Wherever the party is
working systematically, we can see that the participation of women is more in
all political activities and movements. … Likewise there is a need to give
special social and political training to women members in the squads and
platoons. Though they are opposing such big enemies and forces, the shyness and
sense of subordination whose remnants are still present, are also their big
enemies which are obstructing their development. … They have to fight against the enemy inside them. … To face all these
challenges our women comrades should attain political and ideological maturity
and have self confidence. …to put forward its understanding regarding true
liberation of women by intervention in the women’s movement which is going on
in the form of various streams in the country.”
The
struggle against the of feudal/patriarchal/sexist oppression
in the areas where the new power emerged is a concrete, daily, struggle.
Although difficult and complex it has
advanced both practically and ideologically
through the special mass organizations
of women led by the party. But this struggle
goes on also within the party, among the revolutionary ranks against, persisting o
reproducing patriarchal forms, through
also specific rectification campaigns.
The
leading role of women in the People's War in India shows
that while the revolutionary
class struggle is carried forward, it sets in motion
the struggle for a transformation of
ideas, culture, family, religious traditions...
The people's war in India is
therefore an international example
of the liberation struggle of women and
of making revolution within the revolution. An example which comrades
of the Revolutionary Proletarian Feminist Movement,
have always looked along the not easy
but exciting path, in a imperialist country as
Italy,
aimed at the win over the majority of
women for the revolutionary struggle.
The
tie /
support with the
revolutionary struggle of Indian comrades
is and should be a stimulus, inspiration
and mutual encouragement. Particularly, in our country today the main field of our struggle fight on the
ground of women is
their conditions of life and work,
the double oppression of the proletarians, precarious
workers, unemployed, immigrant women. It is a field on which the members of the
MFPR, lead various struggles. For example, last year in November, as we already mentioned, these struggles merged into a single and
historical event, the “strike of women”,
that has seen been joint and participated by thousands of women: factory workers,
school workers, precarious
workers in different sectors, unemployed,
students. It was a strike in which the struggle against the systemic
emergency of femicides and sexual violence on women
in our country, so-called "civilized", is intertwined with the whole condition
of double oppression
and exploitation that
the majority of women
suffer, as a
result of the more and more reactionary policies
of modern middle ages implemented by rulers. A strike that owners, government, State, political parties, official unions, bourgeois and
petty-bourgeois feminists felt as a "danger", but also underestimated or
ignored by economistic “communist” organizations,
because it has put at the center the
issue of the revolutionary double struggle of women as
crucial to overthrow from the top to
the bottom this social system, according
to the concept of the revolution within the revolution to build
a new society in which the whole life
must change. Indeed it has been a
bright spark that, igniting many fires of women’s struggle, from North to South in the country, can,
throughout the time, “set fire to the prairie”. During the strike of the women we connected our struggle to that of
Indian women and all women
in the world against capitalist and imperialist system, as a
powerful force for revolution.
Through
the experiences
of struggle as the strike of women, the comrades of the Revolutionary Proletarian Feminist Movement ,organization generated by the party, led by the Marxism-Leninism-Maoism,
who are at the forefront in the
organization and leadership of
the proletarian women in particular, stepped forward to play a leading role
in all fields, in
the union movement, the women's
movement and especially in the struggle for the revolutionary
transformation of our country, starting from the construction of the party for the revolution. A communist
party of new type, which raises as
strategic the issue of women, as a
delimiting line, a party where women are objectively the
most radical vanguard, the driving force
within the ideological and political
struggle against patriarchy, bourgeois / sexist
ideas and influence, against
the merely accepting "in principle" the issue of women which does not turn that into
a material force, grasping the concept of revolution within the revolution already inside the party, as an overall richness in the Party and for it.
Amidst advances and setbacks, the our comrades contribute to the
revolutionary process in this
country.
With
this in mind, to be firmly tied to the Maoist of the people's wars in the world, and today specially with
the women fighting in the most advanced and effective People's
War's at the international level,
is a key point.
At
the light of all this, in conclusion our speech on
behalf of MFPR we feel
necessary to take the commitment for a
specific initiative toward Indian women, vital heart of people's war against the fierceness of the Indian state,
genocide of its own people, an initiative we propose to the ICSPWI, organizer of this meeting and to the women's movement at the international level, so that the bridge
we built is strengthened
and extended.
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