Maoist Communist Party of Italy on International Women’s Day
10 March 2008. A World to Win News Service. The following declaration by the Maoist Communist Party of Italy is from the publication Proletari Comunisti.
Throughout Italy, proletarian women and the feminist movement will demonstrate in a thousand different forms, from strikes by women workers to street demonstrations in defence of the right to abortion and all women’s rights now under attack by the bourgeoisie, its governments and its parties. They confront attacks on their living and working conditions because they lack job security and are the first to be sacked and become unemployed. They fight the high cost of living, and cuts in social services that make their lives even more difficult and subject them to a double oppression. They fight intensifying sexual violence within the family that arises from new and old forms of domination and male chauvinist-patriarchal oppression; they fight against the clerical fascist attack on the right to abortion inspired by Pope Ratzinger and supported in various ways by the parties of the centre-left as well as the centre-right.
Hundreds of thousands of women have demonstrated against all this, most recently last 24 November. They have isolated and thrown out of their marches the phoney “left” women ministers of the Prodi government and the centre-right parties. For this they have been attacked as “violent” or even “terrorists”.
The reformist forces and leaders of the middle and petty bourgeoisie have tried to make this movement compatible with the system during the big assembly of 12 January and the two days of workshop meetings in February, but the majority of women and feminist organizations, among them many young women, have rejected this embrace.
From the start women have found in the Revolutionary Proletarian Feminist Movement a point of reference which can defend and support their most radical just causes and fight to unite women workers and proletarians and the feminist movement so as to advance the struggle and their consciousness and organization.
This has brought new forces into the proletarian and revolutionary tendency in the women’s movement.
This advance confirms, in the furnace of class struggle and closely linked to the masses, the ability of the proletarian communists of the Maoist Communist Party in Italy to make a concrete analysis of the concrete situation, to develop the mass line, to identify and develop the concrete path to unleash the fury of the women as a powerful force for revolution in an imperialist country such as Italy.
Phoney communist groups and parties, on the contrary, develop a dogmatic and opportunistic line, a doctrinaire Marxism and revisionist practice which separates them from the masses of women and contributes to the persistence and hegemony of revisionist, reformist and petty bourgeois feminism within the women’s movement.
Hail 8 March, the international day of the struggle of women! Hail the centenary of 8 March!
Woman, don’t stop fighting, everything in life must change! Unleash the fury of women as a mighty force for revolution!
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