A-Infos (en) Greece, APO: March 8th - day of resistance and struggle (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

"With stones in hands in GAZA, rebel natives in TSIAPAS, dancing on the 
barricades of IRAN, tearing down the walls of prisons and concentration 
camps, crossing borders with a baby in the arms, breaking the silence 
against the state mafia of trafficking, in the demonstrations against 
the police army of occupation, in the class struggles, in the occupation 
of schools and schools, spitting in the face of priests, fascists, 
bosses, judges, politicians, the system that gives birth to and covers 
up rapes and femicides, that wants our bodies as reproduction machines 
and commodities, and our lives a prisoner of the Power."

Despite the attempts of the rulers to give meaning to the competitive 
and political character of March 8 and to distort the cause of women's 
emancipation by presenting it as a demand for "equality" in the 
management of power, March 8 is a day of commemoration of bloody women's 
struggles, strikes and mobilizations of the most brutally exploited 
segment of society, the immigrant women workers, who burst into the US 
textile industry in the early 20th century. It is a day of struggle and 
resistance to today, in a period when patriarchal violence against 
women, especially the plebeian strata, is sharpened and manifested 
against them and on their bodies in even more savage terms, as an 
integral part of modern totalitarianism.
Because gender-based violence is systemic violence and is an integral 
part of state and capitalist brutality. Of the system that leads the 
great social majority to violent impoverishment, that consolidates with 
laws the class divisions in the basic goods of health, education, 
housing, that murders on the land borders of Europe - fortress and in 
the concentration camps refugees/equals and immigrants/ three, which 
promotes gender-based violence and covers up trafficking rings, which 
washes away rapists and pedophiles, which legitimizes police brutality 
against our bodies and allows judges to turn female victims of 
gender-based violence into abusers with their decisions. Of a system 
that constantly breeds wars and condemns to the uprooting and death of 
millions of people and that the only thing it can promise is death, 
displacement, violence and impoverishment.
Because it is the state agencies themselves that reproduce gender 
oppression and exploitation every day. On the one hand, the perpetrators 
are nurtured, encouraged, armed and finally washed away by the state 
mechanisms of a class and patriarchal "justice" that punishes and 
imprisons those who resist state-capitalist brutality, condemns and 
imprisons thousands of the poor and marginalized, while at the same time 
protecting the powerful. From the cases of rape and child rape that come 
to light and, in many cases, result in victims finding the courage to 
denounce the perpetrators, being challenged and vilified, inside and 
outside the courtrooms. From the femicides that tend to become a daily 
occurrence, with the perpetrators often being from the close environment 
of the victims and many of whom have reported previous incidents of 
violence against them to the authorities, to the trafficking rings 
against women and girls that demonstrate the role of organized crime - 
mafias and their connection with state actors and that in the attempt to 
cover them up from the state mechanisms the victims are faced with 
attempts at intimidation, threats of violence and terrorism so that they 
remain silent, with typical examples being the case of the 12-year-old 
girl from Kolonos but and the case of the 19-year-old from Ilioupoli. 
While, at the same time, those who resist, on the street, inside and 
outside the courtrooms, in the occupations of the anarchist movement 
have to face state repression and the sexist violence of the security 
forces.
The class dimension of gender violence, the institutional management of 
such incidents and gender divisions is a key component of the imposition 
of sovereignty over the body of the plebeian strata. From the threats 
and inequalities in the workplace, which are often not reported for fear 
of dismissal, from the sexual harassment and abuse in the police 
stations and blocks, with the most recent example of the sexual 
harassment of a 20-year-old woman by police officers in the Traffic 
Police, are it is clear that the more class-vulnerable a woman or a girl 
is, the more difficult it is to confront the institutions that protect 
the patriarchal structure of society and, by extension, arm the hands of 
rapists, abusers and murderers.

At the same time, when these things are happening in the Greek area, the 
attack of the state-capitalist, patriarchal system against women is 
increasingly intensifying, on a global level. The women of Palestine are 
not only experiencing the genocide of their people by the state of 
Israel, but, in addition, many of them receive, from the Israeli army, 
threats of sexual violence, multiple forms of sexual assault, while 
there are also recorded incidents of rape in their weight but also the 
executions, in areas where the occupying army itself has instructed them 
to head, for their safety, from southern Gaza to the West Bank. These 
inhumane practices, at the expense of women in wartime, are a permanent 
tactic and come to function as a means of pressure, humiliation and 
suppression of the population.
At the opposite end of power are the struggles of women who fight for a 
world of real equality, freedom, emancipation, away from hypocritical 
institutional promises. From the rebel Zapatistas in the mountains of 
Chiapas, the women who fight in Rojava, the women of the Palestinian 
resistance, those who demonstrate and clash with the repressive forces 
from the USA to Greece, the students who take to the streets against the 
educational restructuring and the circumvention of Article 16, a 
resounding message is given that no one will be free until we are all 
free, a battle is being waged against a patriarchal system that is built 
on gender discrimination and in which women are considered second-class 
citizens but also overall against the regime of exploitation and 
oppression that the rulers are constantly trying to impose on those below.
As anarchists we stand in solidarity with the women fighters and welcome 
their struggles, which are breaking out in every corner of the earth. In 
the face of the all-out attack that we receive from the rulers all over 
the planet, we put forward the collectivization, the organization of 
those from below and the claim of what belongs to us, for the class and 
social counter-attack of the exploited until the overthrow of the world 
of patriarchy, the state and of capitalism. For the creation of a 
society without exploitation and oppression, a society of freedom, 
equality and justice. For anarchy and libertarian communism.

We are many - we are not quiet
WE WILL DESTROY THE STATE AND THE PATRIARCHY!

Against institutional delusions and assimilation into colorful capitalism

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