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Two tips of the iceberg we see
when approaching the Women’s Day this year: a new escalation of
femicides, rapes, sexual violence on women and the heavy attacks on
work, wages and living conditions of women workers. Amidst these tips
there are dozens of other attacks that affect all the practical,
ideological aspects of women's lives.
We had pointed out long time ago,
and now it is evident: most of the crimes against women -femicides,
rape, assault, sexual harassment, stalking etc.- are always fascist,
no matter who commits them, because they are driven by hatred for
women, women who dare to decide, to rise up against the existing
state of oppression and the "deadly normalcy" of the
family; but more and more often behind a femicide or a rape there is
a fascist, either organized or not, either by militancy or mentality,
as well as not infrequently there is a policeman, a carabiniere.
That is why
we say that fascists are rapists, and rapists are anyway fascist.
Femicides are
becoming increasingly "ordinary", heinous, which feed on
each other -suffice it the tragic count this autumn. But their real,
constant source is given by fascism-populism, with its natural,
inevitable road companion, sexism. Modern fascism is the structuring
as system of everything is reactionary, male-chauvinist. It has also
"contaminated" sectors of the masses, mass media. And its
official political, institutional representation legitimizes even the
impossible.
First we saw Salvini, Lega,
Meloni and all the rightists who intervened with the resumption of
clerical-fascist fundamentalism on the family, on the role of women,
against the right to abortion, the divorce, then we had laws, such as
the "Red Code" -still in force- which have only a content
of "law and order", repression, control, not support for
women. At the same time, we see the closure of the places of women.
Finally we had the current
Democrats/5Stars government that behind the demagoguery of free
nursery and the single allowance for dependent children, whether
parents work or not, has repainted and relaunched, in harmony with
the Vatican, the campaign for more children, to increase the birth
rate, the parenthood.
As can be
seen, fascism and conciliation policies are hand in hand against
women.
The state and governments, above
all, trying to keep women chained to the role of protector of family
and the "normal" couple, feed a viciuos concept of property
and increase this low intensity conflict against women.
The other
side of the coin is the heavy attacks on work, wages and living
conditions of women workers.
The stats tell the rapid
worsening of the condtions in the sectors with a higher female
presence: more than 5 thousand school cleaning women workers are
being thrown out, pushed home following internalization, therefore
with the State that directly sack, while those who remain get their
wage and working hours heavily cut; as well as many thousands are the
women workers in the mass ditribution who in a few months risk being
fired or put into layoffs without a future or blackmailed with
transfers; in the factories, the Whirlpool's struggling women workers
are also at risk of being fired at latest the next October, following
the women workers of AirItaly and Piaggio already sent home, etc.
etc.
Meanwhile,
precariousness is spreading. The poor employment contracts of the
contractor cooperatives, with very low wages that do not allow women
to be independent; in factories where immigrants work, always hired
by cooperatives, contractual rights are shamelessly cut, exploitation
conditions are imposed to the limits of slavery, union rights are
tried to be canceled.
All forms of discrimination on
working conditions, wage inequalities, increase, just as the sexual
harassment by employers and bosses.
But this year
was also the year of the deaths, often passed in silence, of our
migrant sisters; of the huge number of deaths at sea, many were
women, often together with their children; at the same time deaths in
the ghettos resumed, from Felandina-Metaponto to Foggia where two
women died burned; and the survivors, instead of having houses, jobs,
documents, are being forcibly evacuated, and if they struggle they
are charged, tried, driven out. The Lega/5Stars government, Minister
Salvini, tried everything to repel migrants, putting their lives at
risk, under the new government, even if migrants reach our country,
they risk being sent back to their countries, to the camps of torture
and rapes in Lybia, in silence, because of the infamous Italy/Libya
agreements, and the substantial remaining in force of the "security
decrees".
The other
policy, in fact, which unites the last two governments in a black
thread, is that of repression. In this year, first with the
Lega/5Stars government, then with PD/5Stars, women who struggle,
denounce, or even just dare to explain what fascism is in schools
have been repressed and in some case they lost their jobs. Just as in
the last few weeks, women comrades of solidarity with migrants are
tried for in Foggia and Calabria, precarious women workers in
struggle are tried in Palermo and Taranto, immigrated women workers
in struggle, Italpizza and others, had to suffer police assaults,
charges and fines, three comrades who opposed the judiciary covering
of rapists are sentenced to very high fines in L'Aquila; those who
fight against evictions in Turin are locked in prison in harsh
conditions; those who oppose the obtuse regulations of the police
state are arrested (like Nicoletta Dosio), etc. etc.
But on this
Women’s Day, it
is the strength and determination of the women's movement and the
struggles of women workers who remain as a light in the dark:
from the hundreds of thousands of women who went to the streets on
March 8 last year, to the great demonstration in Verona against the
"family day", from the demonstration on November, 25 to the
dozens of initiatives during this year.
And, in recent months, it is
mainly the women workers, the precarious workers who went to the
front row in the struggle against masters and government and were the
most rebellious and angry because they have double chains life to
lose and an entire life to change.
We reaffirm:
- To femicides, which are fascist
crimes, we must respond as we respond to fascist violence, with the
collective strength of women's struggle and the necessary liberating
violence. The women's movement must be more and more a "danger"
for the men who hate women, the government, the state, the police,
the judiciary. The neighborhoods where a woman is killed must be
occupied by women, as occurred in Milan. The police stations where
women's complaints are dismissed should be besieged by women; as well
as the courtrooms that often are the stage of a double violence
against women, etc. No woman should be alone!
- Every
struggle of the women workers is the struggle of all of us because,
for each of us who is driven back into the house, we all go back and,
for each victory, we all advance.
And to any repression of struggles, the answer must be: "We all
are strugglers!".
- We must
always be at the side of our migrant sisters, of the women who suffer
and die in wars waged and fueled by imperialism, including our
imperialism.
- Just as we
must be the most daring and ready to demonstrate alongside the
struggling women, from Chile, to Turkey/Kurdistan, and the
"megaphone" of the revolutionary, communist women who trace
the path for revolution and true liberation, first of all the Maoist
revolutionary women of the people’s war in India.
- But above
all it is necessary, and we strongly affirm it in this March 8, to
develop/build a revolutionary women's movement, feminism must be
proletarian and revolutionary, or inevitably, beyond the will, it is
a "feminism that makes itself the handmaid of the capitalism
"(as A. Vincenti writes in "the womens’ strike").
For this reason, this year we affirmed -with our summer seminar- the
need that women, the advanced proletarians, our comrades grasp the
weapon of revolutionary theory, to openly fight against bourgeois
feminism, a 360° fight, because
all life must change!
MFPR Italy
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