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8th of March: Commemorating the International Day of Struggle for Womens Liberation

category international | gender | link to pdf author Wednesday March 09, 2011 05:49author by Griffin - Zabalaza Books (ZACF) Report this post to the editors

New pamphlet published with a collection of essays analysing feminism and sexism within the anarchist movement

This pamphlet, published on the 8th of March 2011 (International Women’s Day) to commemorate the struggles against oppression waged by women everywhere, is published in the hope that these texts will spark much needed debate and change within the anarchist movement and all of us as individuals, change that is sorely needed.

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Contents:

  • Towards an Introduction: Why Anarcha-Feminism?, by "No Pretence"
  • A Man's Heaven is a Woman's Hell, by Kirsten Anderberg
  • A Message to "Anarchist" Men, and then some, by Molly Tov
  • Activist Scenes are No Safe Space for Women: On Abuse of Activist Women by Activist Men, by Tamara K. Nopper
  • Anarcho-Feminism: Two Statements, by Chicago Anarcho-Feminists and Red Rosia & Black Maria (Black Rose Anarcho-Feminists)
  • 'Are You a Manarchist?', questionnaire
  • Challenging Patriarchy in Political Organising, by Harsha Walia
  • Feminism and Anarchism: Towards a Politics of Engagement, by Krysti Guest
  • Feminism: A Male Anarchist's Perspective, by Pendleton Vandiver
  • Going to Places that Scare Me: Personal Reflections on Challenging Male Supremacy, by Chris Crass
  • Listen Anarchist!: Sexism in the Movement, by Miriam & Ali
  • Women and Revolutionary Politics, or... Make Your Own Tea: Women's Realm and other Recipes and Patterns, by the Class War Federation
  • Sexism in the Anarchist Movement
  • Shut the Fuck Up or, How to act better in meetings, by Class War
  • Smash Patriarchy!: Leaflet from Thessaloniki
  • There is only so much Sexism an Anarchist can take, by Dan Spalding
  • What it is to be a Girl in an Anarchist Boys Club, from Alphabet Threat
  • What's New under the Black Flag?: Some Thoughts on Anti-Sexism in the Libertarian Movement, by Klito
  • You want to know why I don't go to your fucking meetings anymore?!, by Libertarian Women of Paris Region

The pamphlet can be downloaded from: http://www.zabalaza.net/pdfs/varpams/essays_on_feminism...t.pdf

* The views presented here might not necessarily be shared by those at Zabalaza Books or the ZACF of which we are a part. To find out about our position in relation to the struggles for gender equality and for a free and equal society, please visit our website at www.zabalaza.net.

* This pamphlet was published on the 8th of March 2011 (International Women’s Day) by Zabalaza Books, to commemorate the struggles against oppression waged by women everywhere.

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iwd1.jpg image8 March, International Womens’ Day 10:35 Tue 08 Mar by Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group (MACG) 1 comments

International Women’s Day is a day when the women’s movement around the world celebrates social, political and other achievements of women. It is also a good day for women to take a closer look at the oppression that flourishes through the double bondage of capitalism and patriarchy, and which is still an unfortunate and undeniable reality for the majority of women today.

blackflaglady.jpg imageInternational Women's Day 2013 21:32 Fri 08 Mar by Workers Solidarity Alliance 0 comments

We strive for a society in which one person or group of people do not dominate or exploit another. In such a society there would be no basis for sexual oppression, domination, or class exploitation. We must work to replace the institutions of power, the nation-state, and capitalism with a worldwide system of grassroots empowerment and self-management of all facets of social and economic life.

textWSA 's International Women's Day statement‏ 21:19 Fri 07 Mar by W.S.A. 0 comments

One hundred years ago today, on March 8, 1908, thousands of women left their jobs in the sweatshops of New York City's Lower East Side and took to the streets to demand their rights as women and as workers. In 1917, their sisters in Russia followed suit, and helped to bring about the revolution that overthrew the Tsarist autocracy. And in Spain in 1936, the anarchist women of Mujeres Libres helped to free their sisters from centuries of oppression.

text8 March 2008!! Celebrating International Women's Day? 18:49 Fri 07 Mar by FdCA - Ethics & Gender Policies Commission 0 comments

If 8 March - International Women's Day - is not to remain simply an annual recurrence, we must smash these chains by means of ever-stronger solidarity and class consciousness, in the knowledge that the liberation of women will never be complete until all of humanity is free from its oppressors, from tyrants, churches, States and bosses. In the knowledge that the freedom of all comes through the freedom of women. [ Italiano]

imageAnarchism and the Continuing Struggle for Women's Freedom Jan 27 by Bongani Maponyane 0 comments

As anarchist-communists, we oppose sexism whenever and wherever it exists, although we also realise that class position differentiates the experience of sexism. We salute all the woman freedom fighters, and the older generation of women, many our mothers, who bear the scars of the gruesome battles in which they stood firm, fighting the oppression imposed on the African native by colonial conquest. There were hard times in the apartheid era, where black women were abused, raped and oppressed: the state did nothing to stop this, but aided it, as the state was part of the system of oppression. History shows that dispossession and systematic dehumanization for the purposes of exploitation and domination were undertaken through the uncontrolled and coercive mayhem of the South African state.

imageFlora Tristan: precursor of feminism and proletarian emancipation Mar 08 by Nahuel Valenzuela 0 comments

Flora Célestine Thérèse Henriette Tristán y Moscoso Lesnais (1803-1844) was a French writer of Peruvian descent. Little known in official historiography, probably intentionally forgotten because of the rebellion and desire for freedom that emanates from her writings. Among her works were Peregrinations of a Pariah (1839), Promenades in London (1840) and the booklet The Workers' Union (1843). [Castellano]

textHijab: lifting the veil Jul 18 by Ada 0 comments

Ultimately we believe that people should have the freedom to dress whatever way they like. This means freedom from state interference and freedom from religious interference in how one should dress. Anarchist reflections on the debate around the banning of the veil in French schools.

textSome thoughts on anti-sexism in the libertarian movement May 10 by Klito 0 comments

Article from "Alternative Libertaire", March 2005 issue, contributed by Klito, a women-only feminist collective.

image8 March, International Womens’ Day Mar 08 Anarkismo 1 comments

International Women’s Day is a day when the women’s movement around the world celebrates social, political and other achievements of women. It is also a good day for women to take a closer look at the oppression that flourishes through the double bondage of capitalism and patriarchy, and which is still an unfortunate and undeniable reality for the majority of women today.

imageInternational Women's Day 2013 Mar 08 WSA 0 comments

We strive for a society in which one person or group of people do not dominate or exploit another. In such a society there would be no basis for sexual oppression, domination, or class exploitation. We must work to replace the institutions of power, the nation-state, and capitalism with a worldwide system of grassroots empowerment and self-management of all facets of social and economic life.

textWSA 's International Women's Day statement‏ Mar 07 0 comments

One hundred years ago today, on March 8, 1908, thousands of women left their jobs in the sweatshops of New York City's Lower East Side and took to the streets to demand their rights as women and as workers. In 1917, their sisters in Russia followed suit, and helped to bring about the revolution that overthrew the Tsarist autocracy. And in Spain in 1936, the anarchist women of Mujeres Libres helped to free their sisters from centuries of oppression.

text8 March 2008!! Celebrating International Women's Day? Mar 07 Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici 0 comments

If 8 March - International Women's Day - is not to remain simply an annual recurrence, we must smash these chains by means of ever-stronger solidarity and class consciousness, in the knowledge that the liberation of women will never be complete until all of humanity is free from its oppressors, from tyrants, churches, States and bosses. In the knowledge that the freedom of all comes through the freedom of women. [ Italiano]

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