A-Infos (en) France, UCL leaflet: March 8, 2024 - Faced with attacks from the government, the right and extreme right: everyone on feminist strike! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

March 8 is the International Day of Women's Struggles and, for the first 
time, a broad inter-union call for a strike further anchors feminist 
issues in union concerns. ---- Exploited at home and in businesses, we 
will go on strike this March 8 ---- Underpaid, discredited, precarious, 
and highly arduous (often little recognized), our jobs are nevertheless 
essential to society. Low salaries are even more penalizing because they 
lead to a significant delay in retirement, worsened by the 2023 pension 
reform. Poverty particularly affects those of us who are undocumented, 
trans, racialized, single, disabled, lesbian and intersex mothers... It 
makes us more dependent on a father, a husband, a harassing, aggressor, 
killer boss. Pay equality and the revaluation of so-called feminized 
sectors are feminist emergencies.

Exploitation does not stop at the door of the house. Reproductive work 
weighs heavily on our shoulders: domestic tasks and care activities are 
all work necessary for the functioning of society, leading to mental 
burden and distance from the public sphere, for the benefit of men, 
bosses and the State. Through the strike, let's show that the world does 
not go on without us!

Siamo tutte antifascist
We are currently living in a reactionary period, where fascism and 
racism abound. The Immigration Law, the consequences of which will be 
terrible for immigrant populations and particularly women, is the 
perfect example. Masculinist ideas remain strongly established and even 
increase among the youngest. The attacks against the women of Mayotte 
(closure of maternity wards, sterilization policy, suppression of land 
rights, etc.) go hand in hand with the promotion at the highest levels 
of the State of the heteronormative model.

Through the use of the term "demographic re-armament", Macron has 
returned women to their reproductive function but not only: the 
government states between the lines that it is necessary to both limit 
immigration and support the reproduction of women white and French 
heterosexual families. These reactionary offensives also target all 
those who deviate from the patriarchal model: trans people, lesbians... 
Every attack against one of us is an attack against us all. Our defense 
is united and collective.

Against all wars
Rape, destruction of health systems, forced displacement, etc., women 
and children are the first victims of wars. Whether it is the 
Palestinian women under Israeli bombs, the Iranian women against the 
dictatorship or the women of Rojava for a revolutionary society, here or 
elsewhere, we are fighting for life and freedom. We denounce all war 
crimes and war rapes, regardless of the executioners. The struggles of 
some fuel those of others.

We are campaigning for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of 
hundreds of Israeli hostages and all Palestinians illegally detained and 
tortured in Israeli prisons. Our sisterhood crosses borders.

Our feminism is libertarian, our struggle is anti-fascist, 
internationalist and anti-capitalist
Like the Argentine feminists in struggle, we say: "We are striking. We 
put into practice the world we want to live in.»

Our immediate demands:

Equal pay; against the 28.5% less wages that we are imposed on and our 
pensions 40% lower than those of men;
the sharing of working time through its general decline;
funding at the necessary and sustainable level for family planning 
centers and associations supporting women victims of violence;
accessible, free and free abortion as well as assisted reproduction for all;
access to free, free and unconditional transition pathways;
the regularization of all.
Find here the united call for the feminist strike of which UCL is a 
signatory.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?8-mars-2024-Face-aux-attaques-du-gouvernement-des-droites-et-ex
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