A-Infos (en) Argentina, Organizacion-Obrera #102: FIST RAISED WOMEN OF THE WORLD (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On this March 8, 2024, International Working Women's Day, from the CNT 
union we once again demand justice and equality for women, vindicating 
the approaches and objectives of the anarchist organization Mujeres 
Libres, to whom the working class owes so much. Almost a century after 
the birth of this organization, women still have a lot to fight for. 
---- In the workplace, we continue to be discriminated against: wage 
gap, difficulty in accessing employment, concentration of women in the 
most precarious sectors, greater temporality and partiality in 
contracts, impediments to promotion in our jobs or the inability to 
reconcile and raising with resources, which makes motherhood a cause of 
impoverishment for women... Added to all this is the violence that, due 
to the fact of being women, we suffer within companies: discrimination 
based on sex, sexual harassment at work... It is estimated that at least 
a third of sexual abuse that occurs takes place in the work environment.

In addition, the sexual division of labor causes domestic tasks to fall 
mainly on us. This, added to the shameful lack of resources dedicated to 
caring for people in a situation of dependency, means that women end up 
having to give up our jobs to care for family members, which means a 
lack of economic independence from men. When care is carried out 
professionally, outside the family environment, the situation does not 
improve: caregivers, home help workers, domestic employees, geriatric 
assistants... the jobs that are essential for maintaining life are, in a 
capitalist and patriarchal society , the least valued and prestigious, 
the lowest paid and are carried out, on numerous occasions, without 
being registered with social security or in conditions that resemble 
slavery, as is the case of internal workers.

All these conditions that women suffer in the workplace mean that there 
is also a gap in pensions. In those cases in which, after many 
obstacles, we manage to access a contributory pension or a permanent 
disability, this is lower than that of male workers. In many other 
cases, women will be forced, in the event of old age or illness, to try 
to survive with non-contributory pensions of misery or with the 
deception of the minimum vital income.

When, through the union struggle, we stand up against the injustices we 
suffer as workers, we encounter repression and criminalization. We want 
to remember once again the 6 of Switzerland, in Xixón, who face 
sentences of up to 3 and a half years in prison and fines of more than 
150,000 euros for being unionists.

Outside the workplace, women suffer all kinds of violence throughout the 
world. According to the UN, 137 women are murdered every day by their 
partners or ex-partners. In the Spanish state, 101 femicides were 
committed last year, 10 so far in 2024, more than half of these murders 
have been carried out by partners or ex-partners of the victim. When it 
comes to sexual violence, statistics tell us that it is increasing, both 
for adult women and girls, and that it occurs outside and within the 
family environment. In Spain, a rape was recorded every two hours during 
the year 2023 and cases of collective rape increased. Among the forms of 
sexual violence, pimping is one of the most brutal and also one in which 
the aggressors (whoremongers and pimps) enjoy the greatest impunity. It 
is estimated that more than 100,000 women are currently being sexually 
exploited in the Spanish state. The CNT considers that prostitution can 
in no case be considered work, but rather that it is a form of violence 
that, as a society, we must eradicate, without penalizing or 
persecuting, in any case, women in prostitution, who have the right to 
justice and repair.

Working-class feminism breaks boundaries. We position ourselves, without 
half measures, with the women of Gaza, who are suffering a genocide by 
the state of Israel and its allies, in the face of the infamous 
passivity of the vast majority of the international community, including 
the Spanish government. From CNT, we will continue to support the 
Palestinian people, standing by their side in this unequal struggle. In 
the same way, from CNT we will continue defending the repeal of the 
Immigration Law, a criminal law with terrible consequences for those who 
arrive in the Spanish State and, especially, for women and their sons 
and daughters.

Within the union, there is still a long way to go. Our colleagues have 
the responsibility of preventing the patriarchal dynamics that we suffer 
outside from being reproduced within the CNT. We organize, together with 
them, so that the CNT is a useful and emancipatory tool for working women.

On this March 8, from the CNT, we salute women around the world, 
oppressed for being born, demanding to be named, fighting outside and 
within the organization against a criminal system: do not let fear and 
discouragement paralyze you. Do not stop, because, in your hands and in 
your mind, is the victory of those who preceded us and those who will come.

LONG LIVE THE STRUGGLE OF THE WORKING WOMAN

LONG LIVE MARCH 8

https://organizacion-obrera.fora.com.ar/2024/03/27/puno-en-alto-mujeres-del-mundo/
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