NACE WHY OUR ASSOCIATION BREAD AND ROSES - TERESA FLORES?
RELEASE FROM TODAY TO OUR
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Given the current situation of women, which we has denied the "morning-after pill," we are discriminated against in all spheres of life, work, get paid 30% less than men, are discriminated against and abused in schools, suffer violence and femicide to go unpunished, it forces us to assume a morality that condemns us from the Church is Satanic us for being lesbians, and abortion by trying to live and decide how we want, but others decide for our bodies and destinies.
For this and much more, because with the global economic crisis is increasingly clear to those who govern the state of democracy for the rich around the world
do with the war between Israel and leaving Lebanon as the only real victims and workers and people poor, especially women, thousands of children and youth with no future. And working women are the most suffer from the burden unleash entrepreneurs on the shoulders of the working class with economic crises and natural consequences, such as unemployment, starvation wages, precarious employment and poverty in populations. compared to what we say that the crisis pay their employers.
why we present this program to start fighting for our rights and interests, we must begin to defend our own strength as
without relying on the bosses' parties, the Church, the State or any institution democracy for rich and therefore not in the other, as Bachelet defends employers and not us working women and those who suffer poverty. So raise a women's group anticapitalist, revolutionary class, independent of the state of democracy of the rich, the bosses' parties and the church. Bread and Roses - Teresa Flores arises a struggle for our rights and our freedom, and the socialist revolution led by women and men of the working class in alliance with all oppressed peoples to end oppression and exploitation and
lay the foundation for our effective emancipation.
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"Bread and Roses - Teresa Flores"
Chilean workers mobilized in 70 '
What strategy we propose for our liberation?
The oppression of patriarchy, the social relations thousand enariamente based on oppression of women by men, appears at the beginning of class society, which is based on economic exploitation social and a majority group by another minority. This dominant minority group, extracts the first work product and retains private ownership of production means managing the whole society. Under the capitalist economic and social system, society is divided into the middle class exploiter and the exploited working class.
The oppression of women, which has existed in all stages of class society, in various forms of subjugation of our sex, capitalism takes on new forms, which is legitimized and reproduced for the benefit of the capitalists. The double workday of women workers receive low wages in companies and then get to perform domestic work lengthening their journey home, is an example of this, while other women are entrepreneurs and exploit other women workers to get rid domestic work. Thus, women capitalist interests are contrary to those of women workers.
To end miserable wages paid women workers, the consequences of illegal abortions that affect us with poor women, prostitution, discrimination and violence, double shifts and domestic work and the daily misery that women live popular sectors, it is necessary to start fighting for our rights on the way to end our oppression as women and workers exploitation as root, which legitimizes and reproduces capitalism.
Although all women to be oppressed, we are the workers and poor women who live in the worst conditions under capitalism. Thus, our perspective liberation and anti-capitalist struggle must be , class and revolutionary. Women can not free ourselves to ending capitalism reproduces the oppression and exploitation keeps workers. Then it is necessary to fight independently of government, church, parties and the capitalist state employers who dresses as a democracy, guaranteeing our situation. Only a socialist revolution led by workers in alliance with the oppressed peoples, the Mapuche, the student movement and poor people, to socialize the means of production and finish with capitalism, we can ensure the foundations of a socialist society , to start our liberation as women. However, we start from today to fight for our freedom, while we strive to advance our interests and demands to pave the way capitalist society face and edges of their oppression of women.
Capitalism and its string of crises, wars and social disasters sustained by the capitalists, strikes hardest hits on workers and especially on working women, going to show all its misery and irrationality of a system There is nothing eternal, perfect and natural and allowing more openly questioning of our situation.
is why from class against class, where we have always dedicated forces to address the problem of oppression of women, now we make way for the formation of a group of women formed by active members of our organization with women workers and independent learners is raised to fight for the rights and liberation of women workers, with grassroots women, youth and students to address our situation.
Class against Class invites you to become a part of "Bread and Roses - Teresa Flores" .*
Our political program is based on the reality of the main problems facing working women and inequality lies with the popular sector women, youth and children.
Workers public sector strike, November, 2008
why our current battle plan begins with:
a) free contraceptives, free and quality education for all women who need them. Sex education in public schools and public health facilities for all and all without the moral of the macho, conservative church. The right to legal abortion, free, secure and free to any woman who requests it. All this guaranteed by the state.
occur in our country about 160,000 to 200,000 illegal abortions a year, most of which are unhealthy and in poor conditions, they are left with serious consequences for women workers and the popular sectors, while is rich in private clinics make it safely. The law against abortion is one of the most restrictive in the world, it does not allow any type of abortion, even when pregnancy results from rape. The right to the morning-after pill then there is not so free as after the decision of the Constitutional Court, led by the right, the Church and the final consent of the Coalition. The illegality of abortion does not end with abortion, fight for this right to decide ourselves through our bodies.
b) The rights of women workers to get equal pay for equal work, work no more unstable and more outsourcing. For a salary equal to the family budget of 350,000 pesos. Rights for working mothers: by right of postnatal , nurseries and gardens free children, as guaranteed by the employers and the state. Right to organize them and union office.
Working women are 40% of the labor force in Chile. We charge pay between 30% and 40% less than men for equal work. In addition we are engaged in the most precarious jobs, outsourced , receiving low wages, workers rights null and void labor stability. When we get pregnant, we are often dismissed, and when working in abhorrent conditions we lose our pregnancies spontaneously. We have no right to Postnatal and no where to leave their children while working in companies, as well the costs of the nursery we can not afford. The right to unionize and right to strike for the working class in this country is restricted by the impunity of employers, who have a capitalist state to its service that they are required by law. But for working women is even more difficult by the poor conditions and machismo that forces us to care for children, to deal with other tasks private family socially restricting ourselves to participate and defend our rights. Let us fight for our rights as workers.
c) Stop violence against women. Let's face abuse, discrimination and abuse. For the right to education and equal job opportunities for women. No more expulsions in schools because of pregnancy. Stop discrimination by gender, sex and ethnicity. Transitional homes for women victims of violence and their children, financially guaranteed by the State and under the control of the victims of violence, women's organizations and women, with cabinets of professionals and specialists, without judicial or police presence. In our workplaces and unions, creating women's committees, independent of the employer, dealing with cases of sexual harassment or employment discrimination against female workers. Transitional subsidies guaranteed by the state to idle in line to the basket and paid leave for female victims of violence to health care guaranteed by the employer. Typing the murder of women as Femicide and higher penalties for FEMICA , abusers and rapists, all potential FEMICA too. No employer confidence in justice, that victims of abuse with the unions, feminists, left, and sexual minorities, to determine and enforce penalties.
Women have to fight all forms of violence against us: decisions made by us, inequality, discrimination, social subjugation to men, abuse, misuse, femicide, that law and reproduce culture and capitalism through government guarantees, the capitalist state, its institutions and the Church.
d) The rights of lesbians, and bisexuals from discrimination sex, gender and sexual orientation. No more expulsions from school and work discrimination.
Women are taught from childhood in the family and in schools, often in addition to conservative morality of the church, to follow certain patterns of sexual behavior and different for men and women by gender roles that society needs to ensure the inequalities that serve capitalism. Any changes in sexual behavior is due to discrimination, violence and marginalization that is expressed above expulsions at work and school, not being able to live in same-sex couples. So we propose Unity in action by the movement's own claims of sexual minorities, and the defense of our rights as lesbians, bisexuals, sexuality live freely.
e) For the liberation of women for domestic work and the tasks relegated by gender. The socialization of domestic tasks: standing struggle to canteens and laundries, we demand nurseries and kindergartens for all mothers, paid by the State and employers. For the right to work stable of all women face unemployment and poverty. For the distribution of working hours so that no one is left without work.
working women, popular sectors, girls and young women are the ones who perform domestic work in society. After work or as a primary task in our lives, we relegate this work is social and we do individually. Is a free labor, which allows them to save employers should pay the salary of the workers if we did not free and that the capitalist state is saved by the care that women carry the sick and old. This unpaid work must be socialized to not continue to fall on women workers and the poor and for women, would include social work in equal conditions. These transformations we can start rehearsing now, but we generalize as a primary task in the time that the socialist revolution led by workers in alliance with the oppressed peoples, the Mapuche, the student movement and poor people, feel the basis of the socialization of the means of production and thus end up with private property. Ready to lift this struggle perspective to lay the foundations of our freedom.
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* "Pan and Roses "is the name that called the strike of the workers at Lawrence ( Massachusetts, USA) in 1912, culminating in the implementation of reduced working hours, higher wages and recognition union after a bitter struggle in which, after organizing day care for their children with the support of militant union IWW (Industrial Workers of the World ), children are attacked by many of them dying police. One banner of the workers, it is said, bore the slogan "we want bread but we want roses.
We are part of the group Bread and Roses starting in Argentina, which arises in the heat of the factory making processes in 2001 amid the crisis, with the active participation of several women workers and students in the fight alongside the Brukman workers in occupied factories meetings with colleagues from the PTS . The 2003 result of activities like assembly for the right to free abortion performed by workers, students attending the XVIII Meeting of Women in Rosario, a group of them began to fight for the right to free abortion in a national campaign and raised fight for the rights of women workers. Today the group "Pan and Roses "meets in Argentina to hundreds of women workers and students nationwide. "Bread and Roses" and spread in Brazil and we want to start a group in Chile.
We took the name Teresa Flores to claim this important labor leader who with his partner Recabarren, early twentieth century, in the year 1913 in Antofagasta and Iquique in northern Chile, founded centers for working women called "Women's Front and Anti-Clerical Sarraga Bethlehem" to fight for the rights of women workers.
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Let stand a group of women workers and students to raise these flags in any place of work, study and throughout the country.
We invite you to discuss this program to bring us forward together, to join our group "Bread and Roses - Teresa Flores, or cooperate and participate in our activities.
Association of Women Bread and Roses - Teresa Flores
Female students and workers, Class Class militants against independent
Write to: panyrosastf@gmail.com
"Gender unites us, the class divides us"
December 2008
