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Salutes
to the masses and to the Brazilian martyrs
As
RPFM, with great joy and emotion we bring here today in occasion of
this celebration, the strong salute of our women comrades, labourers,
proletarian women which are struggling in our country, to the popular
masses that are rebelling and fight in Brazil to advance along the
path for conquering a new power.
We
honor all martyrs and women martyrs which have fallen fighting and
combating and have raised the red flag of the revolutionary struggle.
On
the 50th anniversary of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in
China, we want to first honor the comrade Chiang Ching, militant and
leader of the Chinese Communist Party, whose life was always at the
service of the revolutionary struggle of the masses for the
construction of a society free from exploitation and oppression of
the ruling system, to advance along the road to communism.
Great
was the Chiang Ching commitment on the issue of women in order to
develop the struggle for genuine liberation from social and family
oppression.
The
ruling classes have deliberately distorted the meaning of life and
death of Chiang Ching and, in general, on her you know the lies and
slanders reported by the bourgeois press. It is obvious that the
oppressors have hated her, because today, as then, Chiang Ching is a
living and shining beacon for all, a comrade and communist leader who
embodied fully the meaning of "It is raight to rebel" and
that as a woman also concretely implemented the slogan "unleash
the fury of women as a mighty force for revolution"… showing
that this is possible!
Chiang
Ching had to fight not only against obscurantism and patriarchy in
Chinese society, but also against the internal one at the same CCP
which, for a long time, until the '60s, prevented her from having a
public political role.
Always
on the side of Mao, she fought hard against everything that wanted to
hinder and prevent the revolutionary development of the masses in
China, the construction of socialism; and it was mainly in the Great
Proletarian Cultural Revolution launched by Mao in May 1966, which
brought to light his great firmness and ideological militancy, always
strenuously defending it until her death, against the revisionists,
even inside the Party, which aimed to did the capitalist restoration
in China.
In
the GPCR, Chiang Ching was at the fore as a leader comrade on several
fronts. She animated and led many young rebels, the Red Guards, in
the hard fight against the followers of the capitalist road, she
difended in the deepest way the right of the masses to storm the
heavens, to defy tradition and sweep away the old reaction in every
field; she fought with great enthusiasm against revisionism,
intervening decisively in the superstructural field of culture and
education, giving a great contribution also to the revolution in the
arts, in particular in the context of the theater, according to the
proletarian revolutionary line that placed as its centre the mass
action against the revisionist line that hiding behind an apparent
‘new’, continued to defend the privileges of class.
After
Mao's death for 15 long years she was imprisoned by the revisionists
who, with a coup, took power. But even in prison Chiang Ching with
great strength and pride continued to rebel and claim the rightness
of the GPCR, holding high the red flag of mlm, of communism, until
his captors, unable to bend his will, left she die.
But
her death does not deleted in any case her immeasurable value and her
being an example for women and all humanity, her being one of the
greatest communist revolutionary leaders of our time, to which women
must look and especially women comrades, women revolutionaries, women
communists if really we want to storm the heavens.
Today
in China, the Maoist left that is working to resume the path traced
by Mao, looks and refers to Chiang Ching, and thousands are the
testimonies of revolutionary love that even with much difficulty come
to light.
Who
does not value the role of Chiang Ching in the GPCR, does not
recognize in reality the role of the revolutionary women's movement
in the PCR, and raises the flag of the GPCR to scuttle the GPCR.
*****
The
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has been the most modern
experience of the proletariat, which has shown how to bring the
revolutionary struggle in all areas, not only in the structure but
also in the superstructure. Women, during the years preceding the
PCR, thanks to the democratic and socialist revolution and the
People's Republic had already acquired great social changes: the
massive entry into the working world, in the factories, the reform of
the marriage law, reform of the system education, see for example the
free education courses for women farmers, the agrarian reform, etc.
that had brought women from a black state oppression to "free
their feet, their bodies, their spirits"; but
it is with the GPCR that women are called to become the very
protagonists of the assault on the sky, to carry out directly the
"revolution within the revolution".
During
the wind of the GPCR women had to struggle on all fields, to win the
half of the sky, starting from inside and outside home, to
neighborhoods, to factories, to a new education of children; against
sexual violence they organized neighborhood committees and conduct
popular trials against rapists husbands or fathers; birth control
pills were distributed among women that could start to decide on
their own lives and maternity ...
But
for this they had to fight against the conceptions and obstacles even
among the party cadres, but mostly they always had to fight valiantly
against the Liu Shao-chi revisionists attempts to exclude them from
work and relegate them back into domestic work.
"Liu
Shao-chi was hostile to a choice that would put women at the
forefront of production, outside the domestic hearth, a position that
was consistent with the choice of a capitalist mode of accumulation,
which traditionally developed in the world, relegating the woman in
precise pictures as housewives.
Liu
Shao-chi was for a policy of incentives and higher wages that would
allow the man the economic maintenance of the woman restored to its
traditional role of housewife. (From the magazine Red Flag).
In
the magazine of the party, 'Red Flag", 1971, it is said: an open
problem in China is how to "enhance the revolutionary role of
women." It is done an assessment of the struggle between the two
lines and the two classes during the Cultural Revolution and how the
counterrevolutionary line of Liu Shao-chi on the women's movement has
been broken. "However - wrote Red Flag - the class struggle is
not over. During the revolution and socialist construction, there is
still a serious class struggle on the issue of women.”
Chairman
Mao said: “It is necessary to fight again against the conceptions
that despise the women's movement." For this, the Party
Committee and the cadres have urged the comrades to assess the
importance of women's work, starting from three aspects:
1)
move from the conception of the class struggle to deal with women's
work: if the proletariat does not make use of Mao Tse-tung Thought to
educate women, the bourgeosie will then use the rotten thinking of
the exploiting classes to be harmful to women;
2)
Women are more than half the population, and without their full
mobilization can be no real mass movement;
3)
women represent a great human potential.
Through
these 'three aspects' everybody understood better than to make a
revolution is essential mobilizing women".
"It
is necessary to mobilize women so that they can break the spiritual
chains and unfold a revolutionary spirit. Through the influence of
the millenary feudal ideology, among women, hurted by the poison of
the counterrevolutionary revisionist line of Liu Shao-chi, there was
still a minority chained to the old traditional conceptions. "
"Women
hold up half the sky" said Mao. “But women have to conquer
half the sky," he added.
The proletarian cultural revolution in this field has also had one of
his political and ideological fronts just because women had not yet
reached the half of the sky."
In
"Red Flag" it was stated that during the Great Cultural
Revolution mentality of women "has experienced great changes and
there will be many more women who perform their function in the
construction of power."
Women
workers in the PCR stated that their commitment was not only
productive, and went beyond the use a workforce that in other
societies would remain unemployed, rather it was intended to
transform the social environment in which they operated. And at the
center of this transformation there was not only the changing
conception of proper condition of women, but the revolutionization,
in the neighborhood and in the family, of the role of women.
"Even
within families there is a revolutionization to be done" said a
young comrade "it is necessary let the revolutionary critique
penetrate in it, founded on the destruction of the five old ideas,
and put in the five new concepts: destroy the thesis of uselessness
of women; establish the thesis that women must conquer with courage
up half the sky; destroy the feudal moral of the submissive wife and
good mother to establish instead the ideal of proletarian
revolutionaries; destroy the mentality of dependence and
subordination to man, and establish the strong will to be free;
destroy the conceptions of the bourgeoisie and establishing the
proletarian conceptions; destroy the family interest conception to
establish the proletarian conception of the family."
"The
proletariat, through the cultural revolution, made its raid in the
ideology, even revolutionarizing the ideological apparatus of the
family, overcoming always that condition which made Engels exclaim
that the woman is a proletarian twice, once of the society and the
other of man."
"When
women are mobilized, they can make huge things." Said a woman
organizer of a neighborhood in China.
For
Mao the issue of women was always more on the agenda of his
reflections.
And
this even about was happening outside China: he studied the
emancipating womens’ pushes of movements in the United States and
other Western societies. He supported women's revolts that snaked
around the world.
In
the not easy but exciting path of the revolutionary struggle, so that
the majority of women could liberate themselves from double
oppression produced by this capitalist system that can not be
reformed but only overthrown, the
GPCR teaches us that revolution is incomplete if it does not develops
a "revolution within revolution” that is necessary to break
all economic and ideological shackles of the bourgeois system that
makes of the oppression of women a basis for its existence.
There
will be necessary one and more PCR, because the ideas, habits,
conceptions, bourgeois culture, the old relationships, which are for
women a source of infinite oppression, do not change from one day to
another. It is necessary to continue the revolution to overthrow the
earth but also the heavens, till to the relationship between man and
woman, which are even more die hard, even harder to be overturned.
*****
These
teachings must be grasped today and at every stage:
In
the battle to conquer women and proletarian women to the
revolutionary struggle, Maoism and the GPCR are a challenge to
revisionism, to bourgeois feminism, because they show the way so that
all instances of rebellion against capitalism, patriarchal and modern
fascist ideology, can and must find their organized forms of fighting
in the struggle for the revolution.
In
Italy, we, inspired by the struggle of Chiang Ching, we have raised
the banner of the "revolution within the revolution".
The
first nucleus of MFPR, generated organism of the Maoist Communist
Party Italy, was founded in 1995 as "collective Chiang Ching".
The reference to Chiang Ching, to the GPCR meant grasping the slogan:
"It is right to rebel", it meant to combat neorevisionists,
the economicists, the opportunists, the bourgeois and petty bourgeois
feminists; but also against male chauvinism/patriarchy present within
communist organizations and parties, and the m-l mechanisism which
denies the necessity of revolution in the revolution of women to move
heaven and earth, and break the double chains of the female universe!
But
even now, without a continue struggle/breaking against the many
oppressions/chains of women, primarily those of the family, but also
of oppression, ideological bourgeois habits, the proletarian women
often, even in the imperialist countries like ours, could not even
participate at a demonstration, or a strike.
The
women's struggle must bring the class to deal with the fact that if
it wants to lead everything, and the working class has to lead
everything, it should lead a movement that also involves all the
conditions of women.
But
especially in the battle for the construction of the communist party
of new type the women comrades should grasp the conception of
"revolution within the revolution" to fight in every field,
even within the party, the continued existence of bourgeois ideas,
and take the party into their hands.
Hail
the 50th anniversary of the GPCR
Hail
comrade Chiang Ching
Long
live the revolution within the revolution
Unleash
the fury of women as a mighty force of the revolution
In
conclusion, the comrades of the Revolutionary proletarian feminist
movement want to express in this moment too, with revolutionary pain
and love, a strong salute to comrade Sandra Lima, founder and leader
of the Movimento Feminino Popular Brazil and Marxist-Leninist-Maoist
revolutionary militant.
Some
of us have had the joy and honor to know comrade Sandra, his
strength, his indomitable revolutionary spirit.
We
will always held his memory, will spread her words, and she will be
for us a reference in the difficult but exciting revolutionary
struggle of women, in which once again comrades like Sandra give an
example of a fighter determination, courage till the last moment of
their lives.
We
join the cry of the women comrades and comrades of Brazil:
"Companheira
Sandra: Presente na luta!"
Revolutionary
Proletarian Feminist Movement Italy
14 october 2016
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