A-Infos (en) Spaine: CNT AIT statement for 8M: Patriarchy kills, capitalism finishes off. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On March 8, the day of the working woman is celebrated, a historic day that 
vindicates the struggle of working women in favor of equality and social justice, 
something that is as important to vindicate today as it was more than 150 years 
ago. years, when women workers in New York garment factories organized strikes 
demanding higher wages and were retaliated by the police. In Catalonia, during 
the first decades of the 20th century, the precariousness of the textile industry 
brought women workers to the streets. Or like the workers in the match factories 
in London, who struggled against endless days of work, struggles that have spread 
and continued to this day, when the exploitation of women continues to be the 
order of the day.

Currently there are still many pending issues so that half of the human race 
stops being in a situation of vulnerability compared to the other half, and where 
this inequality is best reflected is in the world of work. Companies are a 
reflection of the patriarchal society, they look down on women and this is 
evident in the discrimination they suffer both in access to promotion and in 
salary. During the past year, the wage gap between men and women was 9.4% in 
Spain, and in the European Union as a whole, women earn 13% less per hour worked 
than men, which is equivalent to approximately one month and a half salary per 
year. The same occurs with the possibilities of finding a job: in the last 
quarter of 2022 the number of stops in Spain increased, placing the unemployment 
rate among women at 4% higher than that of men, and, in the case of women, trans 
women reaching the figure of 80%.

Another problem women face at work is sexual harassment. It doesn't matter if it 
comes from a boss, co-worker or a client. All of this brings with it both 
psychological problems and a work environment in which the victim is forced 
either to give in at the expense of their own health or to leave their job, with 
the consequent repercussions on their working, economic, and social lives.

Among working-class women there aren't many other options. Either you submit to a 
labor market that does not care about your rights or your dignity, or you are 
left unable to pay bills. You have to reconcile life between a job that exploits 
and despises you, and a time that you do not have, but that forces you to always 
be available for the needs of those around you, with which, the days are double, 
those inside and those away from home. In care there is a responsibility that 
mostly always falls on women. This is a reality that has a direct impact on the 
problems that we have previously pointed out: they disable women from entering 
the labor market and prevent them from accessing good training that allows them 
to access a better-paid job. It is a vicious circle that we can only get out of 
by breaking with this patriarchal and capitalist model of society that promotes 
social classes and the unfair distribution of wealth. For this reason it is 
important to develop a discourse that breaks with gender inequalities, but also 
with social class inequalities.

From bourgeois feminism, equality is claimed that allows women to reach the same 
level and social status as men who wield power, run companies and take charge of 
the institutions that the State uses to repress and subdue the majority of the 
population. . We are workers and poor and from anarcho-feminism we do not seek to 
equate ourselves to men in the exercise of power, nor do we intend to run 
companies of the capitalist productive model, nor wear uniforms with which to 
repress, punish and lock up those people who remain outside the margins of the 
law. We do not want to have anything to do with the State because it is its 
institutions that have been subjugating us for hundreds of years. This 2023 we 
return to claim 8M as the International Day of Working Women. We reject all those 
discourses put forward by unions, political parties and other organizations, 
which under the fallacy of "plurality" hide the adjective "worker" and 
paternalistically pay homage to women for being women. In this way, said 
spokespersons for power eliminate the social class component of this very 
important day of protest that, precisely, originates from the struggles of 
working class women. That is the bourgeois strategy: not naming historical 
episodes makes them transparent, as if they had never existed, between 
forgetfulness and revisionism. Against the forgetfulness of our referents, those 
who preceded us in the fight, we raise our voice. Working women, women in 
struggle.  It is delusional to claim equality between men and women and not to 
question the obvious social and economic differences that exist between a 
businesswoman and her workers, between successful business women and their 
domestic workers, among those who have the opportunity to access jobs that allow 
them to achieve a good standard of living and those who end up in the clutches of 
precariousness, with jobs in the fields or in the hospitality industry, or 
directly excluded and criminalized as trans women or women of color. We do not 
want equal opportunities to compete with men in their rotten and obsolete 
patriarchal capitalist system, we simply want to destroy it in order to build a 
model based on social justice and a fair distribution of work and wealth.  Kadin 
ve erkek arasinda esitlik iddiasinda bulunmak ve bir is kadini ile çalisanlari, 
basarili is kadinlari ve ev isçileri arasinda, kendilerine izin veren islere 
erisme firsati bulanlar arasinda var olan bariz sosyal ve ekonomik farkliliklari 
sorgulamamak hayaldir. iyi bir yasam standardina ulasmak ve sonunda tarlalarda 
veya konaklama endüstrisinde islerle güvencesizligin pençesine düsenler veya 
trans kadinlar veya beyaz olmayan kadinlar olarak dogrudan dislanan ve 
kriminalize edilenler. Erkeklerle onlarin çürümüs ve köhnemis ataerkil kapitalist 
sistemlerinde rekabet etmek için esit firsatlar istemiyoruz, sadece sosyal 
adalete ve adil bir is ve servet dagilimina dayali bir model insa etmek için onu 
yikmak istiyoruz.

https://www.cnt-ait.org/comunicado-de-cnt-ait-por-el-8m-de-2023-el-patriarcado-mata-el-capitalismo-remata/
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