An agitational rally at Rådhustorget in Gävle.
A number of actions have been reported to Kommunisten regarding March 8, International Working Women’s Day. Comrades gathered at a large political meeting to discuss the issue of women’s oppression today, its causes, and its consequences. There was strong agreement behind the slogan to smash the patriarchal and capitalist state and a theoretical analysis was presented of the bourgeois state’s role as an employer, a controlling body, and a repressive center in the oppression of the female masses in Sweden. Following this, a number of actions were carried out to mobilize and strike against the bourgeois state.
Stortorget in Gävle.
The modern “welfare state” was branded a prison for working women. The historical-materialist development of the Swedish public sector is deeply intertwined with the emergence of a predominantly female welfare proletariat. Through the power of its monopoly, the state has subjected workers to enormous stress while simultaneously keeping women’s wages permanently lower. Through Social Services, they have also taken on the task of controlling the role of motherhood by threatening to take children into custody.
Sabotage action against the Regional Adminstration offices.
Communists unite behind this proletarian line on the women’s question, which holds that the state is the backbone of the power of all “little patriarchs”—all violent men, boyfriends, and rapists. As employers and controlling bodies, they create the basis for women’s social role, undermine respect for the individual woman, and generate the gender wage gap. The socialist revolution smashes the patriarchal and bourgeois state, all bureaucrats and slave drivers, and creates the conditions for a profound cultural revolution against the old patriarchal ideology.
Posters
The day is seen as a political victory for the red line within the women’s movement and underscores the Maoists’ historic pledge to achieve genuine and concrete gender equality through revolution. Comrades are strengthened in their work to mobilize women under the banner of Maoism and to cultivate female leaders at all levels.
The rally called for working-class women to take an active role in their own liberation:
”That is why, comrades, we are fighting for liberation from this state and this system. We are fighting to build a society where it doesn’t matter whether you are a man or a woman. Where everyone is part of the same revolutionary class and fights side by side in the same people’s war. Comrade Anuradha Ghandy said in an interview about the revolutionary women’s movement in India that: ‘The people’s war has shattered all hesitation among women.’ All women, raise your voices, dare to take your place, and join the revolutionary struggle for our freedom!”
Long live the female combatants of the international communist movement!C
rush the patriarchal and capitalist state!
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