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On March 8th, women around the world waged protests against patriarchy, oppression and imperialism. The activities in India, organized by the CPI (Maoist) directly addressed the violence against women through policemen. Hundreds of women participated. The Maoists claimed that the government uses sexual assault and rape as weapon in their desperate attempts to crush the People's War. The fight against this cruelty of every war and for the proletarian feminism in a part of the world where the People's War is currently taking place upholds the truth that the proletarian feminism is an inseparable part of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism and therefore part of the most powerful and universally valid ideology of our time.

We document following translation of an article publishied by the comrades of El Pueblo:

Proletarian Feminism and the Path to Women’s Liberation

By the Popular Women’s Movement (MFP) Committee
Published in the printed edition n° 67 of the periodical El Pueblo, March 2018.

Women of the popular classes are an important part of the rise of the struggle of the masses. Today in the heart of women’s organizations a struggle is beginning between proletarian feminism and bourgeois feminism. Mothers, wives, workers, fighters, are searching for a path, therefore it is of utmost importance that it be the ideology of the working class which guides their endeavors.

The following is a short overview of the declarations by comrades for the 8^th of march.

In Chile, the Popular Revolutionary Student Front (FERP) reaffirmed its class character and origin, the student movement underscores its commitment to "develop the Popular Female Movement" in the country.

"If the revolutionaries do not mobilize, politicize and organize women, the opportunists and corporations of the old state will do so,"; "We must strive to direct the women's movement to  emancipation of the women, a struggle that the opportunism and revisionism of bourgeois and petty-bourgeois feminism stagnate in electoral farce or bureaucratic protocols."

In the FRG the Red Women Committees and other comrades have developed powerful actions in many cities such as Hamburg, Berlin and Bremen. In Weimar approximately 40 comrades participated in a presentation on proletarian Feminism. Also in Bremen and Berlin there have been similar events prior to the 8th of March in order to mobilize. Already, comrades have sent us various images and photos of actions, from which we want document a few before we report more extensively on the 8th of March activities that took place in the FRG.

Down with Imperialism and Patriarchate!

Painting in Berlin:

Mobilization event in Bremen:

Moving forward in politicizing and organizing women in all parts of Brazil, the Popular Women’s Movement (Movimento Feminino Popular – MFP) on occasion of this year’s 8th of March published two new tools broadening their agitation and propaganda. Alongside a new bulletin a whole new website for the MFP was launched, presenting not only recent activities, actions and reports but also explaining the principals and goals of the MFP and giving a brief overview on the history of the MFP in Brazil.

Counterreform

The social security counterreform sanctioned by the shift manager Temer which went into effect since November 11, 2017. Despite some adaptations and changes, this is the biggest attack on the labor rights in recent history.

On the 19th of February, Munich’s high court dropped the arrest warrants for four of those revolutionaries who stand accused in what came to be known as the “TKP/ML-Trials”. Presenting the current situation of the trials and speaking about their time behind bars, three of those recently released comrades participated in a celebrative and informative meeting organized by Partisan.

We publish this declaration of the Red Guards Austion for the 8th of March:

Sweep the Mountains and Assault the Skies—March 8, International Working Women’s Day

Your blood is a beautiful torrent

That has watered our revolution

With a firm oath of class,

The commitment of a red fighter,

Conquering power until Communism.

“Hymn to Comrade Norah”