The Secretariat of the European Communist Initiative
sends warm militant greetings, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day
to the working women, unemployed women, women pensioners, urban and rural
self-employed, to the young mothers, to the young women in university and
school. It particularly salutes women refugees and immigrants, women from
single-parent or large families, women with special needs and the mothers of
children with special needs.
Female work exploitation, employer intimidation,
dismissals, abuse of women, are clear signs of a rotten system, capitalism,
based on the exploitation, at a time when all the rights, previously obtained
through decades of class struggle, are being rapidly canceled.
The forms of gender and class discrimination continue
to exist in every aspect of the economic, social, cultural life of women, as
they are a source of additional profit for capital. They are utilized by all
the bourgeois governments globally for the competitiveness of the monopolies.
Inside this framework, the living standards of proletarian women are even
worse. Women are the first ones to be fired, on the altar of the profits of big
capital, they are underpaid in respect of men, they are forced to carry out a
heavy work for free, or cannot access education because they cannot afford it,
or endure violent cohabitation conditions just because they have no
alternatives or simply do not know their rights.
Women are forced to supply social and family care services in
substitution of the public sector, which has downgraded social services
provided by local government, various NGOs and “social cooperatives”. This is
the strategy of the EU and its governments to reduce social services and
infrastructure, shifting the burden onto the workers’-people’s income.
Nevertheless,
we are witnessing the ostensible paradox of women dying from exertion for 3
euros per hour or to stop looking for a job because they have enough of being
continuously rejected.
The current social system cannot give answers to these
problems.
The bourgeois-social-democratic and liberal- parties
and collaborationist trade unions are using gender diversity to blur the
consciousness of class diversity. There
is no affinity between bourgeois and proletarian women and there can be no
solidarity between those who carry out class oppression and those who are
subjected to it. Gender oppression is a consequence of class oppression
and a division of labor that is functional to it. Therefore, women's
emancipation cannot be obtained in a way, other than through the general
emancipation of labor.
The right to permanent and stable work with rights,
with a satisfactory salary and pension, to be provided with healthcare,
assisted maternity and education are at the core of the contemporary needs of
women and their struggles as a part of the general class struggle. Only a
higher form of organization of society, with the overthrow capitalism and
the establishment of socialism-communism can put an end to the double class and
gender oppression of women.
The women of the working class must not accept that
the children of the working class, of the people, their children become
victimizers or victims in the imperialist interventions for the interests of
the monopoles. They must demonstrate popular solidarity with the thousands of
refugees, amongst them women, infants, unaccompanied children and adolescents
and isolate the racist poison. They must honor in this way the contemporary
internationalist message of March 8th.
History confirms this truth. One hundred years ago,
the Great Socialist October Revolution achieved for the first time the full and
real equality of women's rights, taking a decisive step for the emancipation of
women.
Therefore, March 8 should not simply be a celebration,
but a day of political mobilization, marking the upswing of the struggle to win
the contemporary rights and to satisfy the needs of working women and men, for
a world free of exploitation. On the occasion of March 8th, we
address this call to reinforce the struggles for the achievement of our common
goals and we greet the working women of Europe
and the world.
