A-Infos (en) Chile, SANTIAGO: OPINION LETTER MARCH 2024 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

March arrives with its accelerated pace; The expenses and debts related 
to the beginning of the school year signal the return, without respite, 
to the production that sets the machine of capital in motion. The fight 
doesn't give up either, we start the year resenting the devastation 
caused by the fire cartel in the fifth region. The fire devastated 
territories where communities of people, animals and eco-protected 
forests live, which are seen as obstacles to the advancement of projects 
such as the Valparaíso peripheral route promoted by the State, headed by 
the Ministry of Public Works, and by the interests of the business 
community. that exploits, day by day, the earth. Faced with this 
perverse alliance, which does not care about destroying life, it was the 
community that rose up with its various forms of resistance. Just as the 
forest is germinating, the collection networks were activated, the wills 
came together to move debris, the hands were ready to cook large pots 
and the conviction grew that only the people help the people.

During those days, where class solidarity overflowed, we showed once 
again that for certain sectors of society and for the bourgeois press, 
there are lives that are more valuable than others. Piñera's life 
mattered more than those taken by the fire, once again, the media showed 
their true interests and stopped transmitting the situation of the areas 
affected by the fire and installed the idea that the tyrant Piñera was 
little less than a saint, cleaning his image and trying to bury the 
human rights violations committed during his mandate, the war he waged 
against the people and the shameless and criminal increase in his wallet 
with the frauds he committed with his friends. Nor was there any talk of 
her misogyny and the "memorable" phrases she left when referring to 
situations such as abuse and consent: "sometimes it is not only the will 
of men to abuse, but also the position of women to be abused." , "all 
the women throw themselves on the ground and play dead and we all throw 
ourselves on top and play alive", "when a lady says 'no' she means 
'maybe', when she says 'maybe' she means that 'yes', when she says 'yes' 
she is not a lady."

And among so much ash and media shamelessness, we will see this March 
8th the pathetic salute to the flag that "celebrates women in their 
day," enunciating them as delicate and beautiful, making invisible the 
infinite identities and diversities. Our bodies and realities are far 
from that image of women that is advertised, we do not buy that story of 
the empowered woman while our autonomy continues to be pursued and we 
repudiate the consumerism that retail promotes, while the cost of living 
becomes more expensive, making it more difficult meet our basic needs 
and those of our homes. More than celebrating, we deserve to commemorate 
the struggles of our dead and the organization of working women who have 
risen up against patriarchy and capital around the world.

But be careful there: the destruction of what oppresses us will not come 
from one of the institutions that sustains the system of domination, no 
type of State or projects that agree with it will be able to land 
significant changes in the autonomy of our bodies, social rights for 
those below or construction of safe spaces. The case of Argentina is an 
example of that, what is the point of having a Ministry of Women, Gender 
and Diversity or decreeing the use of inclusive language in all 
documents of state institutions if a change of government is enough to 
dismantle these measures with the same instruments with which they 
"won". As we mentioned in our analysis matrix, the State is a central 
institution for the current system of domination, hence the short-term 
measures that arise from it will always tend to reinforce its 
legitimacy. As long as it is not the social movements, within the 
framework of the class struggle, that achieve social and political 
conquests, prefigure the free society and wage the ideological battle 
that opposes the current model, no change will be lasting nor will it be 
able to mobilize and articulate those below for their defense. In short, 
it will not be a guarantee or certainty of anything.

For this reason, and in the face of the advance of fascism and 
ultra-conservative sectors, we must respond with internationalism, 
mutual support, struggle and organization. Faced with the anti-rights 
agenda, we must continue strengthening support networks, mobilization 
and grassroots work. This 8M let's dedicate ourselves to the task of 
making our struggles visible, let's find ourselves in the territories, 
because that's where every day we juggle to face the cost of the fair or 
where we manage among neighbors to feel safer, where we encourage 
ourselves with our creative ideas , where we mostly see women organizing 
to fight for a dignified life, because among us we talk about our 
problems and heal ourselves, day by day, to emotionally and materially 
support our families, because we have learned, in everyday life, that 
the hardness of our reality is alleviated by finding each other and 
strengthening our communities.

March also commemorates combatant youth, both those who with their past 
struggles inspire us for the future, and those who today organize and 
give hope to the construction of a world without oppression. Our best 
tribute is to continue fighting with the impetus and radicalism of those 
young revolutionaries, being clear that the institutional shortcuts 
promoted by democrats and progressives left us worse than we were and 
that, therefore, the transformation alternative is and will be 
self-managed and revolutionary.

Finally, while in the world of war women defend their children from the 
massacres and humiliations in Palestine, in Wallmapu, in the Congo and 
in every home where injustice and capitalist death abound, we send 
strength and endurance to each and every one of us. us.

Up with those who fight!

https://fasanarquista7.wordpress.com/carta-de-opinion-marzo-2024/
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