If one, if one unites, looks at the latest great movements of struggle in our country, one has to talk about feminisms, their forms of organization, their street demonstrations and the conquests won. And if you go further back, you will also see us as a vanguard within “other” groups. This was the case in Argentina in 2001 in the popular assemblies, the piquetero movement and the recovered factories; We were also in the infernal decade of the ’90s; and in the fight for appropriate sons, daughters and grandsons and granddaughters in the early ’80s. We share with you the debates that we consider essential to hold in this 38th Meeting to discuss them, think about them but also to discuss the challenges we have and thus be better prepared for what is to come, upon returning from this Meeting.
Let the tide rise again to the cry of Ni Una Menos
We shout for Camila in Corrientes, for Lara, Morena and Brenda in Buenos Aires and in Chaco we demand justice for Cecilia Strzyzoswski so that the impunity of political and economic power ends. From January to October there were at least 208 crimes, sexist brutality intensified while hate speech became state policy. From Milei to Minister Bullrich they say that we were “very empowered” and that women and LGTBIQ+ people have “privileges.”
The extreme right cannot stand that with our feminist movement, women and sexual diversity we have questioned machismo and achieved long-delayed rights. On top of that, the majority opposition kept agitating that ‘We spent three towns’, thus fueling the patriarchal reaction. They tried to institutionalize the movement that emerged, and in these two years of Milei their politics is not in the streets but only (failed) electoral bets. But let us not become helpless. We have to make each neighborhood, place of work and study, participatory, massive and organizational spaces, we must put machismo back on the defensive. We didn’t miss any town, we are missing many!
Palestine is a feminist cause
It is not a war, it is a genocide. That is why the Palestinian cause challenges feminisms: the violence exercised by the State of Israel not only destroys territories and communities, but is brutally deployed on the bodies of women, boys and girls, who are the majority of the victims, who suffer the devastation of the health system – which even causes spontaneous abortions – and are turned into a direct target of imperialism that, through colonialism and militarization, tries to destroy an entire people. Milei celebrates that policy and is one of Netanyahu’s few remaining allies. Therefore, denouncing the genocide against the Palestinian people is also a feminist cause. He November 25, on the International Day Against Violence Against Womenwe will be promoting mobilization in all the cities of the country, and in 11 other countries where Pan y Rosas raises this flag: against sexist violence, genocide and imperialism.
Down with reforms, up with rights!
The government prepares a new attack while crop the programs of care for victims of violence, say goodbye workers who provide support, hinders the implementation of right to abortion y no fulfills the trans job quota. Trump and the FMI they plunder the country with the extractivism and the debt scam, and now hold a mercy and the great businessmen to promote a slave labor reform: “Hour bank” to use our time, salaries tied to productivity, vacations whenever the employer wants and, if you are fired, compensation in installments. They want to declare all activities “essential” to limit the right to strike. An attack on the entire working class: who were registered and registered will worsen and those who worked in the informality They will do it in worse conditions.
Las women will bear the brunt. Throughout the country: 8 out of 10 who work in private homes are without rights; more than 43% of those who work, we are in the informality; and at wage gap In formal work it is 27%, in informal work it reaches almost 40%. In it LGTBIQ+ collective, informality also grows along with the danger of not returning homeas happened to Tehuel. Those of us who have formal jobs are the majority in the sectors with which lower salarieslike Health and Education.
We must confront the discourses that portray us feminists as enemies and say that our demands are antagonistic to the working class. Quite the opposite: many workers are feminists and almost all feminists are workers. This relationship had its political expressions, such as in the PepsiCo factory when the women said Ni Una Menos without work and in Guernica-Buenos Aires when the neighbors said Ni Una Menos without housing, or when in state agencies in the face of femicides we say: we stop! Their speeches only seek to divide and create “scapegoats” to justify the anti-worker and anti-popular policies of the governments.
For their reforms to advance, they need their allies: governors of the UCR like him Corrientes Valdesof the PRO y peronists like Jaldo in Tucumán. There is also the CGTwho these two years took a long nap from which he only woke up to negotiate with Milei. AND the CTAswho sometimes oppose us with speeches where they pose as combative, but they made no real effort to organize our energies to truly confront the attacks. We need assemblies, strikes and mobilizations from now on to prevent reforms and attacks, in the perspective of a general strike!
Let us unite the struggles and multiply our forces
Let’s start by coordinating all the sectors that we want to face the next labor reform and adjustments raising all our rights high. With the force of nurses and doctors of Garrahan; of the retired who face repression; of the teachers who fight for their salaries and better conditions in public education; of those they have faced for years in provinces like Corrientes delivery to agriculture for the forestry business producing clearing, fires and destruction of wetlands; of the girls that we knew how to be tide and conquered the legal abortion and CSE and we fight for its implementation in schools and throughout the educational system; of the professionals and family members of the group of disability; of the collective LGTBIQ+ that throughout the country we say our pride is in the streets We never go back to the closet again! Our movement is powerful if it stands up and we build that unity, but it will be unstoppable if we do it with political independence from the State and all the parties that defend the interests and businesses of businessmen, who want us disciplined so that we are subjected to this adjustment. One has to organize the resistance from now on. From the left, in the face of what is coming, we committed to being with Myriam Bregman, Nicolás Del Caño and all the legislators of the Unity Left Frontas they have done in each of the fights in these two years.
We can defeat this reform and the entire Milei and IMF plan. we are not alonewe have the strength of youthof the workers who organize lists opposing bureaucratic union leadership, of the colleagues who face layoffs as in Georgalos, Secco or Shell, of the social organizationsthe movements socio-environmental and the original communities who face the plundering of our lands. The union leaders compromise, that is why in the heat of this fight we will fight to recover our unions and bodies of delegates. But we’re going to have to go one step further. Peronism frustrated millions with the failure of Alberto Fernández’s government and now letting the adjustment pass also helps the right advance. That’s why We want to open a debate with the feminist and diversity movement: to combat resignation, we women who lead enormous struggles against sexist violence, for our rights, as part of the working class, should have our own voice, contributing to the construction of a strong organization: a working class partywithout businessmen or bureaucratic leaders, who fight so that the powerful pay for the crisis.
If you came this far and want to meet us…
Why are we socialist feminists? The fight is to break the chains of a social order that weighs on millions of human beings across the planet. Our convictions are not born from personal, individual hatred. It is the social hatred that, like a spark, ignited the class struggle throughout history. We fight to wrest all the rights we can from capitalist democracies. But we know that there is no total emancipation, at the end of the long road of rights that are added. Rights can also be lost, can be reversed, and can even be liquidated. That is why we fight from the perspective of ending this system based on the deepest inequality: in which a handful of people live at the expense of the stark exploitation of millions of human beings. And today more than ever, because in the 21st century, to sustain the exploitation of the majority working class, capitalism needs to legitimize and reproduce the multiple gender oppressions that exist, as well as racism, xenophobia and others. It needs wars and unprecedented depredation of the natural commons, even if that destroys the planet. You will always see us in the streets alongside those who fight. Because we refuse to be oppressed and exploited, because we fight for bread and roses.
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