March 5th at 7pm.
Presentation/discussion on women organising against oppression, history of feminism and how these struggles relate to anarchist communism.
March 8th is International Women’s Day. Every year, capitalist institutions, media, and politicians show their support, forgetting the Day’s working class and anti-capitalist origins.
This date actually commemorates March 8th 1909, when 129 women employees of a cotton textile factory in New York were killed when the factory boss set fire to the factory while all of them were inside making a protest demanding labour rights.
This meeting will look at the way women globally have fought back against their oppression. Issues include: control over their bodies, workplace, the community, the home, and violence. We will also consider the development of feminism. The current backlash against women’s liberation struggles from the right and authoritarian religious currents will also be discussed.
Anarchist communism believes not only in ending capitalism, but all hierarchies and oppressions. We will discuss some of the history of women and anarchist communism before opening up the discussion to questions of what anarchist communism can learn from feminism and women’s struggles and why more women aren’t part of a revolutionary anarchist communist movement.