A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #369 - Antipatriarchy - March 8: International Strike for a Feminist Revolution (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Faced with patriarchy and capitalism, the rise of fascism, and 
imperialist wars, the International Day for the Rights of Women and 
Gender Minorities must be an opportunity for us to regain courage, to 
mobilize through strike action, and to celebrate our victories. For even 
if they are often ignored, our struggles are taking place everywhere and 
are bringing a wind of revolution to the world! ---- Every year on March 
8, we celebrate the struggles for the rights of women and gender 
minorities, commemorating the revolt of the Russian revolutionary women 
workers of March 8, 1917. But more than a day of celebration, it is also 
a day of strike action. Although this year falls on a Sunday, this call 
to strike remains relevant. Firstly, because the sectors where paid work 
is performed on Sundays are largely precarious and predominantly female. 
On the other hand, because we are also calling for a strike of domestic 
labor, which falls primarily on women.

Working towards our massive strike, we women and gender minorities, 
means highlighting how our capitalist and patriarchal world operates by 
exploiting us and assigning us to unpaid or undervalued work, all for 
the benefit of men. This world, through its pronatalist policies, seeks 
to control our bodies and impose reproduction upon them. It organizes 
patriarchal violence to maintain us in this social position. On the one 
hand, it exalts virile values in service of imperialist and warlike 
ideologies, and on the other hand, it attacks our access to healthcare 
and education.

Faced with this world, of which we are among the first victims, it is 
indeed we, women and gender minorities, who are everywhere also on the 
front lines fighting for peace, restorative justice, the transmission of 
knowledge, and peaceful coexistence with all living beings. Our 
struggles are those of Kurdish women defending their revolutionary 
lands, of Palestinian women fighting for their people's sovereignty 
against a genocidal state, of Sudanese women facing forced displacement 
and shameful sieges, and of Iranian women striving to overthrow the 
dictatorship. They are the struggles of Afghan women seeking alternative 
forms of education in the face of exclusion, of Yemeni women fighting 
for independence in patriarchal rural areas, of Sri Lankan factory 
workers confronting employer intimidation, of Mongolian pastoralists 
battling industrial farms that are draining the land, and of Brazilian 
women who organized one of the largest international anti-racist 
demonstrations on November 25th.

At a time when fascism is once again establishing itself as an 
acceptable opinion, at a time when the world echoes with the sounds of 
battle in imperialist wars, our lands, our bodies, and our labor are 
more coveted than ever by the ruling classes. Our anti-patriarchal 
struggles are therefore necessary, not only to defend the threatened 
rights of women and gender minorities, but also to build a society free 
from capitalism and all other forms of domination. Let's strike, then, 
and take to the streets on March 8th to remind the world that the 
revolution will be feminist or it will not happen at all!

UCL Anti-Patriarchy Commission

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?8-Mars-Greve-internationale-pour-une-revolution-feministe
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