"It is only when there is class struggle that there can be
philosophy"
A strike against the low-intensity war against women, as women,
made of femicides and rapes by men who hate women, perpetrated mostly
within the “holy family”. The killings of women in Italy are
becoming a massacre. Every two days a woman dies murdered – worse
than in a real war – and every day big and small sexual violence,
stalking – more than one case per day, and often it turns into
murder – harassment at the job, abuses on women, increase and
become facts of “ordinary” oppression towards women. But it is
also a strike that includes the whole condition of double
exploitation and oppression of women by the bosses, the government,
the State, the Catholic Church, which are the underlying cause, which
create the social and ideological humus of “modern Middle Ages”
in which the femicides ripen against women.
The “Strike of Women” starts and will center on the jobs
places, workers and toiling women, for this we choose the form of
“strike”, but it is correct to speak about “total strike of
women”, because it concerns and calls all the proletarian,
students, unemployed women, housewives in the neighborhoods, women
comrades in struggle movements, immigrant women , feminists etc. A
strike of class and gender that wants to expose and fight the whole
condition of women’s lives! The “strike of women” is a
“historic” event not only for women, but for the entire
proletarian class, for the revolutionary movement.
The strike will be a spark that will light the path of long-term
struggle of the majority of women against the entire condition of
exploitation and oppression that this society want to impose and of
which femicides, rapes and violence are the most barbaric results.
And the 25 November will mark a major milestone of this path, that
can only have as goals the revolution, and, as we learn from Maoism,
the “revolution within the revolution”. The “strike of women”
is a slogan for which the Revolutionary Proletarian Feminist Movement
has been working for some years, and that step by step, especially in
recent months and after the national mobilization made by the
comrades of the MFPR on 6 July in Rome, has gained consensus and
participation.
Its realization is an event of big impact and breaking. Because
the strike of women, as it puts forward the exposure of the entire
conditions of the majority of women, puts into question the work and
not work, the discrimination in the job, the role of oppression of
the family and the family as wanted by the bourgeois society, it
challenges the common idea of the women, their role of subordination.
That is, it puts into question everything!
That is what it puts and that is why the strike of women scares.
It is not just a matter of some demands. The battle of women is
inevitably at 360 degrees. It aims to a totally different society,
different social relationships, different personal relationships, to
that all the life has to change. Women, particularly proletarian
women, when struggle, bring a force more, bring the need for an
overall battle, that they also bring back in their everyday life.
The strike of women is for women. It serves first of all to women,
so they find the strength to rebel, not to accept as inevitable a
condition of oppression, subordination, their role in the family, to
become a reality of struggle that worries and scares the bosses,
governments, the State, men who hate women. But the strike of women,
of workers, plays a role also within the working class. It wants to
be a battle of rupture, which also requires a transformation within
workers, among their workmates. In this sense, the total strike of
women strike puts in facts the need of revolution, in which women
will be the most determined force.
Proletarian Revolutionary Feminist Movement – Italy
mfpr.naz@gmail.com
WHAT WE DO NOT WANT:
NO to the increasing
presence/control of police forces in the cities, on the streets. We
do not want that those who in prisons, in the Centres of expulsion
for migrants, use even the rape, harassment, sexual abuse against
women, those who beat us during the struggles, become our
“defenders”;
NO to Task-forces, they feed the
“security-climate”, the social control, which turns into less
freedom and fewer rights for women.
YES, rather,
to “light up” and make every area of the cities places full of
life, promoting the opening 24 hours per day of centers, parks,
freely managed by organizations of women;
NO to
the transformation of the trials for rape in indictments and
investigation on the “moral” of women; – NO to counseling
centers or confessional centers turned into places of
control/suppression of the women’s choices;
AND WHAT WE WANT:
– “Houses of
women” in every town and the neighborhood of the largest cities,
managed by women, of monitoring and struggle, with free services of
lawyers, doctors, psychologists, experts chosen by women.
-
Immediate action against males charged with violence, stalking,
sexual harassment, ill-treatment.
- Immediate removal from jobs
and institutional seats of who exercises sexual harassment and
violence;
- Prohibition of stay at home for husbands, partners,
fathers, brothers and other relatives charged with violence and
ill-treatment;
- Emergency procedure in trials for rape and
femicide and admission of women’s organizations as civil parties,
free legal aid for women, classification in the criminal justice
system of the crime of rape among the most serious offenses;
-
Simplifications and emergency procedures for cases of separation and
divorce, legal aid for women;
- Prohibition of the use of the
female body in advertising and the sexist use of language;
-
Abolition of sexist texts, with discriminatory content, in schools
and universities, removal of teachers who propagandize them.
Against discrimination and oppression, basis of
sexual violence and femicide
- Transformation of all temporary job contracts into indefinite.
Equal pay for equal work;
- Prohibition to investigate marital
status, maternity, sexual orientation, for employing or sacking.
-
Right of citizenship and equal rights of employment, wage and
regulatory frameworks for immigrant women;
- Reduction of working
hours without loss of pay. Lowering of the retirement age of women,
as acknowledgment of their double work;
- No persecution of
prostitutes, rights to social services for all women;
- Defense
and expansion of the right to abortion, abolition of conscientious
objection, free operations and facilities, lay counseling centers
managed and controlled by women.
- Free access for women to health
and social services;
- Socialization/gratuity of basic household
services: kindergartens, health care, services for the elderly, etc.
È
un complesso monastico sito in pieno centro a Palermo il luogo scelto
da sedici famiglie di senzacasa per risolvere l’emergenza che li vedeva
coinvolti. Cosi, poco fa, queste famiglie hanno occupato, insieme ai
militanti del Centro Sociale Anomalia, il complesso della Maria
Santissima della Pietà di proprietà della curia palermitana e
inutilizzato da circa tre anni. Questo enorme spazio si trova in via
Alloro e fu chiuso per mancanza di fondi attraverso cui rifinanziare le
attività che vi si svolgevano all’interno.
Nel
solco delle mobilitazioni che hanno accompagnato e seguito l'importante
data del 19 Ottobre, all'interno di un processo di generalizzazione
delle lotte contro precarietà e austerità, che hanno visto la forse
emersione di una composizione sociale eccedente e disposta a proseguire
nel segno del conflitto, continuano le lotte anche nel mondo della
formazione, a partire dagli studenti medi. Rispondendo all'appello
lanciato dalla rete StudAut in seguito alla due giorni nazionale
svoltasi a Pisa il 2-3 Novembre scorso, il 15 Novembre sarà nuovamente
il mondo delle scuole a farsi sentire e rendersi protagonista nelle
proprie rispettive città.. verso nuove sollevazioni!
