A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #314 - International, Feminists around the world, ready for battle (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]

The feminist movement is today one of the first checks and balances in the world. 
When the women stand up, all the people advance. Feminism cannot be conceived as 
a force enclosed by borders, but as a tidal wave sweeping all the dominions 
anchored in each country. The recent victories and struggles of the women's 
movement in Argentina or Poland are only a glimpse of this mechanism. ---- On 
March 8, 2020, a giant Historicas banner was deployed by demonstrators in 
Santiago de Chile. A few months earlier, a hymn developed by these struggling 
women was adopted worldwide: "The patriarchy is a judge who judges us at birth. 
And our punishment is the violence that you do not see...." .

A warning repeated, on November 25, 2019, by 2,000 Chilean women before the 
Ministry of Women and Gender Equality. Hundreds of millions of women will sing it 
afterwards, in the streets or on their networks, in Mexico, Brazil, France, 
India, Colombia, Spain, Algeria, Egypt, Turkey, the United States. United. The 
power of the women's movement in the world lies in the common rejection of this 
violence.

Since the 2010s, there has been a strong mobilization of women against male 
chauvinist violence, in France and around the world. They have succeeded in 
bringing gender-based and sexual violence out of the shadows and finally bringing 
the voices of women to the fore. In their struggles resides the message that 
women and gender minorities are not the class of victims but the class of those 
who must resist.

Across Latin America, numerous demonstrations are organized to denounce 
feminicides under the slogan Ni una menos (Not one less). In Brazil, women took 
to the streets against Bolsonaro's election, taking back Ele Nao (Not him).

On March 8, 2018, during a meeting in Mexico that brought together 8,000 women 
from all over the world, the Zapatista women affirmed the need to end the 
patriarchal capitalist system. Their message echoes the vibrant reality of the 
Kurdistan women's front and their experience within democratic confederalism. 
Feminism is on the front line to fight in this globalized world because it has 
the capacity to federate. It can unite the entire working class.

On March 8, 2018 in Chad, women expressed their support for the union platform, 
of which they were the first members. Massive but brutally repressed, their 
mobilization revived the strike movement in the public service. A few weeks 
later, the Chadian government was forced to negotiate.

Without women no struggle is possible
One hundred years ago, on March 8, 1917, the workers of St. Petersburg went on 
strike to demand bread and peace. Their uprising thus initiated a historic 
revolutionary movement. On March 8, the struggle for women's rights was launched.

In 2016, strikes by women (in productive and reproductive work) were organized in 
Argentina, Iceland and Poland. They will impose the idea of an international 
strike of women on March 8 of each year. Its success will be colossal in Spain in 
2018 and 2019, in Switzerland in 2019 and in Mexico in 2020.

The international solidarity of women is as much a force as it is a way of 
raising awareness. The libertarian feminists of the Spanish CGT drew on the 
experience of Latin American feminists, their slogans and modes of action, in 
triggering the women's strike. Six million women participated in 2018 and almost 
as many in 2019. Few social movements have made the libertarian principle of 
unity so popular: that an injustice against one is an injustice against all.

Libertarian feminism has no national history. He was born 150 years ago, within 
the struggles of the Communards of Paris, with Louise Michel. He was born in the 
fierce battle of the Chinese activist Hey Zen and his comrades at the beginning 
of XX th century. He was born into the local Mujeres Libres groups which united 
up to 20,000 women in the late 1930s in Spain. He was born at the end of the 19th 
century , in the Anarchist Feminine Center in Argentina, led by Juana Rouco 
Buela, Maria Collazo and Virginia Bolten. He was born in the thousand lives of 
Emma Goldman, and the shorter one of Voltairine de Clerc. We are part of a long 
tradition of female anarchists.

Libertarian feminists, we consider popular organizations to be the basis of the 
revolutionary movement. They are able to overthrow power and take over the means 
of production, decision-making and organization in the territory. The feminist 
movement, as a mass, class, international movement is at the forefront of this 
process.

Solidarity against a patriarchy without borders
A feminist breath coupled with a libertarian breath roam the globe. Feminists 
choose direct action and abandon parliamentary action. In many movements, they 
are organized horizontally: decisions are taken without the authority of one. 
"Without the authority of one, there would be light, there would be truth, there 
would be justice. Authority alone is a crime"[1]. Direct democracy is imposed, 
its bourgeois imitations are fading. For all of them, the state is not the 
solution but part of the problem.

Abortion "is an essential demand for all women and those likely to give birth in 
our class, because it is the poorest among us who abort in the worst conditions 
of clandestinity, and thus risk serious problems. health, prison and death. 
»[2]In the world, only about fifty countries authorize abortion without 
conditions to be fulfilled (apart from the legal deadlines). The victory of the 
Argentinian feminist movement is that of women from below, for their right to 
live. It is our dearest wish for feminists in Poland and beyond. " May feminism 
be a reality for women below and may the struggle of women grow and spread with 
fighting spirit, mutual support and sorority in all corners of the world". [3]

"We want each other alive"
Our feminism is that of "those from below", of the popular classes, it is a 
struggle and not a liberation, against the racist, patriarchal and capitalist 
powers. In this, libertarian feminism departs from certain European liberal 
feminist currents which think only of individual freedom and deny the essential 
action of the exploited: a liberal feminism which seeks to impose itself 
internationally and tries to silence the history of popular feminist struggles.

Louise (UCL Saint-Denis)

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[1] Louise Michel, Plaidoierie of June 22, 1883.

[2] Federación Anarquista de Rosario (FAR), Argentina.

[3] Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira (CAB), Brazil.

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