A-Infos (en) Greece, APO: November 25 - Day of remembrance, resistance and struggle against gender-based violence and the system that generates and nourishes it (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Within the rotten world of the state, capital and patriarchy, gender 
oppression is cultivated and reproduced with the aim of dividing and 
fragmenting the oppressed. November 25 commemorates the murder of the 
Mirabal sisters in the Dominican Republic by the dictatorship of R. 
Trujillo in 1960. The "Butterflies", organized in the anti-dictatorial 
movement, actively resisted the regime of patriarchal violence and 
repression. Their active participation in resistance networks turned 
them into a target of the state. They were murdered by the secret police 
in a state operation, which the regime's media presented as a "traffic 
accident," highlighting the brutality of power. The institutionalization 
of this day is nothing more than a state fabrication, a mechanism to 
cover up its own pathologies and, ultimately, to de-nerve social and 
class struggles until they are completely assimilated. It would be naive 
to believe, at the very least, that the emancipation of women can begin 
and be completed within the suffocating circle of dominant institutions 
and the system that oppresses them. A system based on exploitation, 
inequalities, and oppression could never eliminate gender-based 
violence. On the contrary, it is a key component of the consolidation 
and strengthening of the system of power.
Despite the hypocritical declarations of institutions that they are 
fighting gender-based violence, they are the ones who give birth to it, 
cover it up and nurture it. These are the same institutions that 
legalize dozens of femicide cases every year and throw pedophiles, 
abusers and femicide into courtrooms - after first building their 
defense line through police instructions and leaks to the media 
mouthpieces of power. From the borders where migrants and refugees are 
abused and raped by state and parastatal mechanisms, to the hells - 
camps where complete impoverishment is imposed, to children who fall 
victim to trafficking rings under the "ignorance" of the authorities, to 
the television industry that turns gender-based violence into a 
spectacle, simultaneously exonerating abusers and keeping in the dark 
those who do not serve the dominant narrative. At the same time, the 
increasing incidents of homophobic and transphobic violence - from the 
organized lynching of two LGBTQ+ people in Aristotelous Square in 
Thessaloniki last March, to the recent attacks by a group of young thugs 
in the Zappeion Gardens and in Peristeri - are not isolated incidents, 
but a harsh symptom of a patriarchal system that legitimizes and 
encourages violence against LGBTQ+ people. How could we forget the 
trafficking ring in the Ilioupoli case with the pimp cop and fascist 
Bougioukos who held E. hostage? The trafficking and child rape case of 
the 12-year-old from Kolonos, whose appeals court begins next January, 
where an entire system participated in the ring and turned its back on 
it, priests, cops, politicians, mafiosi and all sorts of scoundrels of 
the state and parastatal mechanisms? The murder of Kyriaki Griva outside 
the A.T. Ag. Anargyron, where she had asked for help, which she was 
denied? The systematic laundering of rapists inside the courtrooms as in 
the case of Lignadis and Filippou? The rape of the 19-year-old in the 
A.T. Unity by the police officers of the department, who videotaped 
their heinous acts?
At the same time, in the prisons of wage slavery, gender discrimination 
and violence are expanding for the benefit of the bosses' profit, within 
an institutional framework of restructuring labor relations and 
suppressing decades of labor conquests. The normalization of employer 
misconduct and harassment in the workplace, the constant threat of 
dismissal, the dismissals of pregnant women, wage discrimination, the 
abolition of the right to strike, the persecution of union members and 
the increase in industrial accidents are transforming workplaces into 
central fields of gendered state-capitalist violence. All of this, 
combined with the intensification of working conditions, the dismantling 
of the National Health System and the privatization of the health 
system, the devaluation of public education, the auctions of primary 
residences and the rise in rents, the extreme precision in basic 
everyday goods and the direct threat of poverty, make up the daily 
violence that women of the large social majority are confronted with.
In this context, the authoritarian patriarchal capitalist system is 
attacking with increasing ferocity the women of the plebeian strata, the 
fighters, the demonstrators, the anarchists, all those who resist the 
barbarity it attempts to impose, applying the only strategy it knows, 
that of murderous violence and repression by the security forces. From 
the repressive blow that the march for Kyriakos Xymitiris received, 
where a female protester was fatally hit in the head by riot police 
while she was on the ground, from the unprovoked attack with chemicals, 
flash bangs and sticks on parents, teachers and elementary school 
children during a rally outside the DIPE against the merger of school 
departments, the violent arrest of a 13-year-old student outside a 
student occupation with long-term irregular detention at the Exarcheia 
Police Station without communication with his parents, the checks on 
minors in Exarcheia by DRASI police officers, the violent kidnapping and 
arrest of a mother of an infant and a teacher due to her union activity, 
to the brutal attack and arrests of demonstrators during the solidarity 
march in Palestine on 7/10 and the violent arrest of protesting female 
teachers in Chania in a mobilization against the massacres of the 
Palestinian people. Moreover, it is no coincidence that gender-based 
violence is used as a counter-revolutionary weapon by states around the 
world against insurgents, with rapes by security forces, with recent 
examples being Sudan, Colombia and Chile.
In the fields of war, patriarchal violence unfolds in its most brutal 
and pure form. Beyond the mass murders of women and children, hunger, 
disease, displacement, women's bodies are transformed into a field of 
conquest and gender-based violence is transformed into a weapon of 
discipline, humiliation and imposition on themselves and their entire 
communities. In Palestine, women face systematic attacks, torture, 
humiliation and sexual violence in prisons and at checkpoints, as a way 
of subjugating themselves and their communities by the Israeli 
occupation machine. In Sudan, gender-based violence is used as a tool of 
ethnic cleansing and social control, with both women and children 
targeted by both warring sides in a bid to dominate through terror. In 
every war zone, patriarchy is not just present - it is a structural part 
of the war machine, a weapon that targets our bodies to break down 
entire societies.
Faced with the bleak future that the state-owned, capitalist patriarchal 
system holds in store for all of us, we will always choose the side of 
rebellious women, the side of the oppressed, of workers, of refugees, of 
LGBTQI+ people, defending freedom, equality and solidarity. On the side 
of the ever-struggling Palestinians, our brothers in Iran who paid with 
their blood the uprising under the slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom", the 
women in Sudan who are fighting to save their communities from 
extermination and starvation, the communities who are rising up against 
the ICE pogroms in America, the rebelling Zapatistas in Mexico, the 
women who are fighting against disappearances, feminicides, rapes and 
for the self-determination of their bodies in East and West. Those 
imprisoned in the prisons and concentration camps of refugees and 
immigrants of the Greek state. All women, all people who are fighting 
against state, capitalist and patriarchal barbarity, who are fighting 
for a free and just world for all.

FROM PALESTINE, SUDAN TO IRAN, MEXICO AND THE USA... CIVIL VIOLENCE IS 
INSTITUTIONAL
THE REBELS HAVE THE RIGHT
AGAINST THE STATE AND PATRIARCHY FOR THE ATTACK AND ANARCHY

Demonstrations Tuesday, November 25
Athens: Klafthmonos, 18.30 | Thessaloniki: Kamara, 18.00

Group against patriarchy | Anarchist Political Organization - Federation 
of Collectives

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