A-Infos (en) Italy, FDCA: MARCH 8: NOTHING TO CELEBRATE (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On this date of war, we believe it is appropriate to underline that in 
Italy, in 2023 alone, 118 women, of which 96 in the family or emotional 
sphere, were killed at the hands of exes, partners, husbands, boyfriends 
and the number continues to grow also in 2024. ---- The following is an 
elaboration of the "Ethics and Gender Policies Commission of the 
Federation of Anarchist Communists" which dates back to 8 March 2013, 
old in chronological order but very current in its contents which we 
entirely claim and which, as "Libertarian Alternative/ FdCA", we propose 
again as a contribution to the reflection as we approach 8 March 2024, 
in a world shocked by bloody conflicts which still see women personally 
involved as victims.

After centuries of silence, Italy too finally discovers feminicide. And 
the showgirl woman (object for sale) gives way to the victim woman 
(object of violence). It is sacrosanct to account for the increase in 
gender violence, undermine the silence of the system and denounce the 
absence of support networks. But the media attention to extreme 
victimization remains at best a denunciation, it privileges good women, 
often overshadowing the irregular and the most fragile women 
(prostitutes, foreigners, trans), it denies the right to speak to the 
victims, usually dead, to leave it to everyone around. Always, still, 
women are made weak.

It is the profound economic crisis, the social cuts, the exclusion from 
the world of work that reduce them once again to angels of the hearth, 
relegated to the role of carers or "necessarily loving" mothers due to 
the unaffordable costs of nursery schools, schools nursery schools and 
the disappearance of full time in schools, disastrous economic 
situations, families, at best, with a single income, seasoned with 
discontent, hardship and sacrifices, which leads women to be 
increasingly exposed to gender violence, violence which manifests itself 
through away in different forms that can lead to the extreme act. 
Economic dependence on the partner often gives rise to psychological 
violence caused by having to ask for money at home in order to manage 
the "primary" needs of the family unit in a tiring slalom in search of 
the cheapest discount store.

But to make ourselves strong we need to start talking about work, about 
rights, about claiming a space for women. Their ability to free 
themselves from oppressive constraints, more or less consciously, and to 
open up spaces of freedom and transformation depends on women's material 
living conditions.

If capitalism has always considered us a reserve army for the labor 
market, for centuries female workers have fought against subordination 
to the logic of a female economy useful only as support for the family, 
which could therefore be satisfied with an economic value inferior.

This issue of the magazine is dedicated to International Women's Day, 
March 8, nothing to celebrate! Libertarian Alternative/FdCA

If in the nineties, in the face of a stable male employment rate, there 
was a growth in women's participation in the labor market, this 
coincided with a progressive "feminisation" of the labor market which 
paved the way for the "flexibility" or the progressive dismantling of 
the rights of male and female workers.

And if the feminization of the market has also led to phenomena of 
desegregation in favor of women, at the expense of a widespread 
phenomenon of subcontracting care work to other women, at the same time 
it has meant an increase in demand for "poor" work and has favored the 
process of flexibilization - precarization. Thus the ideology of the 
natural destiny of women in the role of caring for children, the 
elderly, the sick, the ideological counterattack, the so-called 
patriarchal and capitalist backlash, against radical feminism and the 
freedom of women in public and private choices, has worked to disavow of 
women in their claim to participate in public space at 360 degrees as 
collectively recognized actors in the social space, in the life of 
so-called democratic countries.

The short circuit occurred in the (poor, more vaunted than real) 
implementation of the policies of "conciliation" of women's life and 
work times, carried out in an unfortunate and contradictory way together 
with the progressive dismantling of public welfare. Women were proposed, 
and now imposed by the economic crisis, to reconcile their many 
obligatory commitments in the workplace and in keeping the destinies of 
their families going, instead of aiming for sharing and 
co-responsibility in care tasks.

The progressive privatization of welfare has done the rest: very high 
service costs in the face of very low wages for women, or the 
progressive incentivization of part-time work, are leading to further 
precariousness and the subsequent mass exit from the world of work, 
precisely in conjunction with the crisis that was prepared for a long 
time and struck at the end of the last decade. The result is before the 
eyes of all of us, the women who have been forced culturally and 
economically to suffer massively flexibility and precariousness to the 
point of reaching levels of new poverty which reach tragic levels in the 
lives of separated or divorced women with children.

Gender violence, a phenomenon that has always been present and strong in 
patriarchal society against women who have expressed a desire for 
independence and autonomy in the face of the rules given as natural and 
obvious within family ties, has thus increased because the value of 
women in capitalism it has decreased exponentially and so has the 
ability to actually act on requests for freedom that women today 
experience as necessary for their survival in a world that is becoming 
increasingly oppressive.

This is why as anarchist communist feminists we propose for this March 
8th to put attention back at the center of the living and working 
conditions of women, young and old, citizens of the earth and not of a 
single nation, in an international and European perspective , 
encouraging spaces of cultural and economic-social awareness that lead 
to a new conflict between women against capitalism which has targeted us 
with its desire to destroy any recognition of the dignity of work and 
the worker, of exploitation without any rules.

We must forcefully ask that in this historical phase there be no further 
discrimination to the detriment of women, who have always been affected 
in their most delicate phases of life, starting from the right to 
self-determination.

We strongly desire to meet again and find solidarity, sisterhood, anger, 
a constructive anger for our present and for a future that we do not 
want and must not hand over to our young people with exploitation, 
violence, discrimination of Today.

We want to take back our lives, the awareness of our value, our 
abilities, we want to be able to live a dignified, free and conscious life.

May it be women today who say enough and present themselves as 
revolutionary subjects, in a common path that goes beyond all 
boundaries, because, after all, this is March 8th and it is the only 
March 8th possible. With the hope and desire to continue building it all 
year round.

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