A-Infos (en) Brazil, OSL: 8M from Brazil to Gaza: women's struggle and resistance is international (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

All over the world, women have chosen the streets as the space to mark 
the memory, resistance and struggle symbolized on March 8. Faced with 
the intensification of social inequalities, the advance of the extreme 
right in several countries and attacks on rights already conquered, 
occupying the streets today remains an urgency to resist attacks, 
maintain achievements and advance social transformation. Whether in 
Brazilian outskirts and favelas, where black women fight daily against 
police violence and for the survival of themselves and their children 
and partners, or in villages, where indigenous women defend their lives 
and their territories; be it in Latin America, where Argentine women 
defend the achievement of the legalization of abortion and the social 
rights of the poorest population and Chileans fight for the maintenance 
of abortion (in cases provided for by law) in the Constituent Assembly; 
whether in the mountains of Mexico, where the Zapatistas maintain 
resistance in free Zapatista territory; whether in Gaza, where Palestine 
resists genocide and defends the liberation of the Palestinian people. 
They say enough is enough!

THE PRECARIZATION OF LIFE CONTINUES INCREASING THE PROFIT OF CAPITALISTS

While the fortunes of the five richest men in the world have doubled in 
the last 4 years, around 5 billion people have become even more 
impoverished. Since 2020, the wealth of five Brazilian billionaires has 
increased by 51%, while 129 million Brazilians have become poorer, 
according to Oxfam. This poverty falls on the shoulders of women, since 
more than half of Brazilian households are headed by women - and, even 
where they are not heads, they play a fundamental role in the family 
economy, burdened with work that is often invisible, such as domestic 
chores and labor. care of children and the elderly.

An even more serious scenario is seen in neighboring countries, such as 
Argentina, which is suffering an acute economic crisis, where poverty 
has reached the highest level in 20 years. The recently installed 
government of Javier Milei signals the deepening of neoliberal policies 
on the continent. In addition to the economic measures that will fall on 
the working class, Milei's government intends to revoke the legalization 
of abortion in the country, achieved after a strong mobilization of 
Argentine women.

In Brazil, the broad-front government of Lula and Alckmin has proven the 
limits of class conciliation. The New Fiscal Rule links the budget to 
fiscal targets, which impacts public services, such as public policies 
to protect women. It is worth remembering that investments in these 
policies had already been reduced during the Bolsonaro government, and 
there is no prospect of improving this scenario, which leaves the 
situation of the poorest women vulnerable. According to Dieese, around 
40% of working women receive up to the minimum wage (among black women, 
the rate reaches half), many of them without access to labor and social 
security rights and benefits.

In 2023, Law No. 1,085/2023 was approved, which deals with equal pay 
between men and women and remuneration criteria. The law only covers 
salaries, not remuneration as a whole. Furthermore, we reinforce that 
much of inequality will not be resolved by laws, but by systemic 
changes. Therefore, roles that are mostly performed by women continue to 
have lower salaries, as in the case of outsourced cleaning companies, 
domestic workers or sectors such as health and education.

ATTACKS AND SETBACKS CONTINUE WITH STRENGTH IN THE POLICY OF CLASS 
CONCILIATION

Beyond the limits of institutional policies, the right and the extreme 
right have worked to promote ideas and projects that set back the rights 
of women, indigenous and LGBT people, and the working class as a whole. 
The dispute between Congress and the STF and the approval of the Marco 
Temporal demarcated the power of the right, at the same time that 
violence and misery persist in Yanomami territory. The crusade is also 
against the possibility of legalizing abortion, with a debate initiated 
in the STF, and attacks on reproductive rights already achieved, as 
recently happened in São Paulo, with the end of the legal abortion 
service in a municipal hospital that is a reference in the procedure. .

According to the 2023 Brazilian Public Security Yearbook, referring to 
data from 2022, all domestic violence indicators increased; femicides 
increased by 6.1% and attempted femicides increased by 16.9%; the 
country recorded the highest number of rapes in history, with an 
increase of 8.2%, with the victims being women, children and teenagers. 
Black women are the majority of victims. Brazil is one of the countries 
with the highest rate of violence against women and femicides in the 
world. For trans women, it is a frightening reality: according to data 
from the "Dossier: Murders and violence against Brazilian transvestites 
and transsexuals", by Antra, Brazil continues to be the country that has 
murdered the most trans people for the 14th consecutive year.

Police violence also profoundly affects the lives of women in peripheral 
regions. They are on the front line of reporting torture, arrests and 
even executions of their children and partners, as we have seen recently 
in communities in Baixada Santista, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and other 
outskirts of Brazil.

This entire scenario shows us that we urgently need a profound social 
transformation, which can change this reality from its roots - which no 
government is capable of doing. The work is hard, in the short, medium 
and long term, and involves strengthening organized women and the 
working class. It is this organization, built from below, guided by 
class independence and combativeness, that will respond to the setbacks 
and move us towards another possible world. The working class needs to 
increasingly absorb women's life urgencies and build strategies to 
overcome them, as these are demands that are at the heart of class 
struggles and depend on them. Therefore, it is a confrontation that must 
be built from the grassroots, in communities, in unions, in places of 
study, collectively.

INTERNATIONALIST MEMORY, ORGANIZATION, STRUGGLE AND RESISTANCE!

This year, we celebrate 40 years since the end of the Military 
Dictatorship in Brazil. And we remember the many women who were tortured 
and murdered by the military. Above all, we bring the memory of their 
resistance and struggles to continue the path of combating the seeds of 
authoritarianism that supported the establishment of the military in 
power. And, if our struggle for the liberation of people and the 
construction of a new world is international, we also emphasize our duty 
to denounce the crimes of the State of Israel against the Palestinian 
people, which has already murdered more than 8 thousand women and 13 
thousand children Palestinians; Intensifying the fight against the 
Palestinian genocide is the duty of all revolutionary activists.

We continue to build women's struggles, for combative and popular 
movements, that strengthen organization and resistance from below 
against those above!

For the struggle, resistance and lives of women!

For the Social Revolution and Libertarian Socialism!

Libertarian Socialist Organization

March 8, 2024

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