Women:
NO “return to normality”
We Want the “Abnormality” of
Revolution!
MEETING
IN SEPTEMBER
During
the coronavirus crisis is the workers, the proletarians in their
serious, and worsened by the lock-down, condition, both at work or
non-work and at home, have emerged strongly, and in a dramatic way,
up to emblematic cases of suicides among health workers and the
increasing of cases of femicides.
But
these women could not have a voice as an organized movement
representing their issues and needs. For the government they were not
even a section in the various adopted Acts, except to practically,
ideologically strengthen their role of origin, and current, in, for
the family, so for both the government and the unions the best is to
carry or put forward measures for "conciliation", which for
women means "double rip-off", because they anyway have to
do double work - let's think of smart working, which is becoming a
modern (but very old: see home work) form of more waged work and more
housework, assistance.
And
at the same time, complaints about the low birth rate, and
consequently the attack on the right of abortion, come back strongly
by the rulers/Confindustria as well by the government ministers and
the bourgeois press.
But
the arrogance with which the condition of proletarian women is back
returned is in a certain sense good.
The coronavirus crisis put clearly and without exceptions that this
capitalist system is the cause of crises and a cancer for humanity,
and that women have nothing to expect from it but have to break the
chains that are becoming ever closer.
And
it is no coincidence that, even in the months of lock-down, the women
workers, the precarious workers, the proletarians, the majority of
women who can't live have taken the scene again!
Even
the mass media once again today talk, report statistics, about the
seriously discriminated condition of women: women workers dismissed
or placed in lay-off schemes with in the name of Covid, often
selected among those women who do not accept the increased rhythms of
work or claims their rights, affective security measures against
Covid; workers who no longer have even their poor precarious job;
health workers at constant risk of contagion and work stress; workers
in trade, public businesses, services, etc. overexploited for a work
underpaid and made of physical suffering (see the use of masks for
hours and hours, instead of lowering the rhythms and increasing the
breaks); the false and unworthy help of the baby bonuses, the
miserable pay raise for the parental leaves that does not reintegrate
the lost wages and make the women stay at home, above all and
especially; the charity of shopping vouchers, etc. But it not enough,
now the attacks on all fields resume, primarily on the right of
abortion, already effectively denied to many women during the
lock-down. And the numbers and too many cases of women killed for
forced living together cry out for revenge...
But
what is important is that the women workers, the proletarians are
those who have taken the scene again with their struggles.
Of course they are still few, but they are the vanguard, an example
for all women. They are the health women workers who have in many
way, brought out their harsh reality of exploitation, contagions, to
too many cases of death/suicides, the school women workers forced to
work at home but with no future, who took to the streets in various
cities; the precarious ones of the canteens, the cleaning, the
services of scholastic-sanitary assistance, of the kindergartens, of
the hotels, who have always struggled, with a vanguard role played by
those from Palermo, the workers of the postal services who observed
the first national strike after the lock-down, etc.
Among
them, again, working class women were above all the advanced point of
the women's rebellion:
in June/July the combative workers, almost all immigrants, of
Montello (BG) on strike against lay-offs/firings had to struggle
against the masters but also against the CGIL, a pro-company union;
in May, Electrolux workers in Susegana went on a mask strike against
work rhythms; then, the workers of Meridi in Sicily for the right to
wages and security; the workers of the canteens in FCA late in July;
and many other women workers in small and medium-sized factories,
etc.
These
women in struggle did not stop, either at home or on the job, and as
soon as possible with strikes, rallies in the streets. They
are the "heroines"!
They
were and are an outpost of the other needed women's movement: the
proletarian, revolutionary, feminist, movement.
These
women cannot back to "normality"!
The
coronavirus crisis for women has been the opportunity to enlighten in
all their reach the double oppression, double exploitation,
patriarchy, death..., the question of all time: the
role in the bourgeois society of the family, private property, the
state/government at
the service of capital.
To
this obscure "normality" we want and must oppose the
"abnormality" of revolution!
The
pandemic and economic crisis is showing even more the need for a
general advance of the women’s struggle at different levels, of
understanding and the need for the emergence of revolutionary
proletarian feminism.
The
hot season of women's struggles continue in September!
The
MFPR will open it with a national meeting which will says:
WE
WANT TO UNLEASH THE FURY OF PROLETARIAN WOMEN!
ALL
LIFE MUST CHANGE!
Revolutionary
Proletarian Feminist Movement - MFPR - Italy
1.8.20
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