Call for Womens’ Day 2020 from AIRWO India: Resist fascism! Fight for equality and dignity for women!

Even as the divisive, communal and sinister CAA was passed amidst surging protests throughout the country, led in great part by women and youths, atrocities against women and the relentless pauperization of the masses have continued to rise steadily.

We are approaching the International Working Women’s Day at a time when Indian women are not only facing unprecedented violence but also being deprived of decent jobs and wages and being pushed into an existence of dependence and penury. Data released by the National Crime Records Bureau have revealed that a total of 2,249 unemployed women committed suicide in 2018. The total number of suicides by unemployed women and men surpassed that of farmers and serve as a harsh comment on the state of joblessness and poverty in the country.

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Women of the world weave a bond of solidarity! Call for the 3rd World Women’s Conference of grassroots women 2021 in Tunis!

From the Andes, to the Rocky Mountains, from Ayers Rock to the Alps, from the Himalayas to the Urals and Atlas, our call resounds and becomes an outcry that spreads across the world – echoing in the metropolises until it finally reaches every corner of the earth! It embraces more and more women. Let us weave a bond of solidarity together!

Come to Tunis for the 3rd World Women’s Conference 2021!

Tunisian women textile workers are fighting against work stress, gender discrimination and violence at work. Courageous strike leaders are put on black lists. Women textile workers in Bangladesh fight unionized for a minimum wage that is enough to live on. They defy prison and violence. They all form the backbone of the militant women’s movement.

In Iran the embers of the revolution are re-ignited, women stand up – defying death – against the Islamist-fascist mullah government. Their demand for women’s rights is connected with the struggles of the workers. Indigenous women of Latin America fight for the future of the children and the planet. They call out to the world: Save our mother earth!

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Proposal for the Agenda for the European Conference of the WFK on 9 May 2020 in Srbrenik/ Bosnia

European Coordinators

Halinka Augustin/Netherlands

Susanne Bader/Germany

 

No. Subject Responsible Time
  Friday 08. May    
  Arrival and registration

 

In the evening a friendly “welcome”

 World women from Bosnia

All of us

  
  Saturday 09. May   9:00
1 Welcome and greetings Bosnia 15 min
2 Presentation of the present

Delegations and guests

 Coordinators 15 min
3 Discussion and decision on the

Agenda and Rules of Procedure

Coordinators 15 min
4 Review and control of 2018 decisions Coordinators 15 min
5 Report on the work of the

Coordinators from April 2018 to April 2020, Discussion

Coordinators 45 min
6 Delegations’ country reports
You also have the possibility to show photos

Each country report maximum 10 minutes = 1.5 pages

Reports should include:
(1) basic information about the country
(2) Situation and struggle of the country’s women in the period from the end of 2018-2020
(3) Presentation of your women’s organisation(s) and work
(4) Indications for the higher development of our cooperation in Europe.

We ask you to send us your country report by 24. 4. 20 at the latest in writing

 Each delegation for its own country report

 

plus 5 min at the lecture for the translation

 180 min
7 Work to be done, roadmap for the 3rd WFK and resolutions of the 4th World Meeting in Erfurt 2019 Coordinators 105 min
8 Financial independence – trademark of the World Women’s Conferences Coordinators 15 min
9 Resolutions and resolutions

Please bring your suggestions

 Coordinators 45 min
  Expected end (including breaks)   18:30
  Evening cultural programme

Please bring ideas for it

 All of us  

 

On Sunday there is a cultural program of our hostesses.

 

 

New Years Greetings for 2020!

Dear friends and comrades,
I wish you all the best for the new year 2020!
Strength, perseverance and many courageous comrades-in-arms for our struggle for a future worthliving and the liberation of women!

Chers amis et camarades,
je vous souhaite tout le meilleur pour la nouvelle année 2020 !
Force, persévérance et beaucoup de courageux compagnons d’armes pour notre lutte pour un
avenir digne d’être vécu et la libération des femmes !

Queridos amigos y camaradas,
les deseo todo lo mejor para el nuevo año 2020! Fuerza, perseverancia y muchos valientes compañeros de armas para nuestra lucha por un futuro digno de ser vivido y por la liberación de la mujer!
Suse, Germany, europeancoordinator of worldwomensconference

Zum Jahreswechsel erreichten uns Grüße aus aller Welt:

The best of the coming year to you and all our comrades ! Sharon cabusao silva/ Gabriela/ Philippinnes

May the new year take the struggle for a revolutionary transformation of society to hitherto unscaled heights.  More power to us, world women. A very happy new year to all friends and comrades.   Sarmistha Choudhury / AIRWO/ Indien

Qu’il soit de même pour vous, Kiss

Nancy MBUAKANIA / AFACO Democratic Republik Congo

Een gelukkig, gezond, strijdbaar en solidair 2020 gewenst!! Halinka Augustin/ Niederlande

Dear comrades,

attached we send the evaluation and new years greetings of our Kurdistan Organization.

We wish you hope and strength in our new year of struggle! Victory will be ours!

Comradely, MLKP Turkey/Kurdistan

mucha salud y éxito en tus actividades. Gracias, por todo. Illari /Bolivien

Queridas compañeras ,desearos unas Felices Fiestas y Prospero Año Nuevo

Y que nuestra lucha siga con tanta fuerza y que en los años venideros sigamos aún asi de fuertes….🎉🎉🎉🎅🎅

Un saludo compañeras, Mcl del Carbon, Bergarbeiterfrauen aus Asturien/ Spanien

To all my lovely ladies !!!! Solidarity Greetings from Menu/ Sri Lanka

Dear World Coordinators, Asian Coordinators, and Sisters, Revolutionary Salute from Nepal !

This is the season of celebrations and spreading goodwill to all… This is the season for wishing all good things to you .Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Best regards,  Sarita Maharjan

 

 

 

Solidarity with the Kurdish Women and Liberation movement in North East Syria

European Coordinators of the
World Women’s Conference of Grassroots Women
Susanne Bader/ Germany
Halinka Augustin/Netherlands
Deputy European Coordinator:
Zaman Masudi/Germany

14th October 2019

 

To the Continental Coordinators of the World Women’s Conference

Solidarity with the Kurdish women- and liberation movement and all people

in Rojava/Northeast Syria!

We World Women strongly condemn the war of aggression against Rojava/Northeast Syria by the fascist Erdogan, his state and military, which is violating international law!

We have stood side by side with our Kurdish friends in many cities of our countries since the beginning of this imperialist attack on the liberated territories.

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Statement of the European Coordinator of the World Women’s Conferences on the occation of the European elections in May 2019

European Coordinators
of the  World Women’s Conferences of grassroots women

Halinka Augustin / Netherlands
Susanne Bader / Germany

Statement of the European Coordinators of the World Women’s Conferences of the grassroots women on the occasion of the European elections 23-29 May 2019

To the women of Europe! A Europe – without nationalism!
Thousands of people all over Europe took to the streets at the weekend to achieve this. They stand up for peace, friendship among peoples and against nationalism. Their concern – no vote for right-wing parties in the European elections. The militant women’s movement was a critical part of it. Critical why? If you believe the election posters of the bourgeois parties, the words of government representatives, our vote on election day is enough to create a united and peaceful Europe. We should choose “the lesser of the evils” so that the right-wing fascistic parties do not enter the European Parliament. But what do the promises of the bourgeois parties and governments bring to the masses of women – we express our opinion !

Europe – borderless?!
The EU tightens asylum laws, stops the sea rescue “Sophia” and expands the border police “Frontex” from 2000 to 10,000 soldiers! The UN refugee agency UNHCR calls the crossing from Libya to the EU “the deadliest sea crossing in the world”. The Mediterranean Sea has become a mass grave.

The EU – a peace power?!
The EU stands for massive armament and additional expenditure of all national defence budgets. For the establishment of a defence fund with 13 billion euros, for “military mobility”. For this, civil development projects such as “Brot für die Welt” (Bread for the World) are to receive less money.
The EU continues to supply weapons to Saudi Arabia. Its satellite navigation system “Galileo” was developed as a competitor project to the USA GPS system and also serves military purposes.

Europe – for equality for women?!
Throughout Europe, women earn on average 16 percent less than men. In the capitalist system, women are primarily responsible for private household and family management. That is the basis why around 31% of women in Europe work part-time. The compatibility of work and family life is an illusion. Childcare places are expensive and the supply is insufficient. The daily crucial tension of women is a real one.

Europe – women-friendly?!
Women in Europe have no right to self-determined pregnancy or abortion – laws, churches and the state regulate women.
Europe – borderless, peace-loving, for the full emancipation of women – that is not possible with the bourgeois parties and their representatives. They have all long proved that they serve the good of the monopolies! In order to enforce our demands, we must organise ourselves and unite much more closely. Women’s awareness has awakened on a broad front. The militant women’s movement in Europe is visible, audible, active in the whole spectrum of life and work. Boundless – women of all ages organize actions, fights and days of struggle:

  • in France, 250,000 civil servants in 150 cities, many women, against President Macron’s “reform plans”
  • in Spain, on International Women’s Day, six million against violence against women
  • in Belgium the European campaign for the self-determined right to abortion and against the patronising of church and state took place
  • in Germany, nurses at the Celenus Clinic in Bad Langensalza (Thuringia) won a collective agreement after 220 strike days against lockouts and threats of dismissal.
  • in the Netherlands, nursing staff, nurses struggle for better working conditions
  • young women, girls and boys all over Europe are active for the environment and the future in the FridaysForFuture movement.

The militant women’s movement in Europe is part of the world women’s movement. With two world women’s conferences and a theory seminar on the liberation of women, we have created an international grassroots movement that coordinates and cooperates across national borders and continents.

We call to you:
“Let us discuss alternatives to this capitalist system, let us find and fight for them!
There can be no radical change in the situation of women without drastic and fundamental changes in the political, economic and social system. The movement for the liberation of women must unite with the struggle for fundamental social changes”…. “We are contributing to the building of a new peace movement”.

kind regards,

Halinka Augustin, Netherlands and Susanne Bader, Germany

European Coordinators of the worldwomens conferences of grassroots women

 

 

 

International Theoretical Seminar : Introductory speech by the Kurdish Women’s Movement

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Introductory speech by the Kurdish Women’s Movement

International Theoretical Seminar on Women’s Liberation

2-4 December 2018 – Bangalore

Dear women, dear comrades, dear sisters,

We are honoured to be in the presence of such revolutionary, struggling women. We are especially grateful to our Indian comrades for hosting us and making this historic gathering possible. On behalf of the Kurdish women’s movement, we salute you and your resistance.

We thank the organizers for dedicating the venue hall to our precious comrade Sakine Cansiz. Sakine Cansiz, nom de guerre Sara, born 1958 in Dersim, was one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party. She was detained in 1980 in the infamous military prison of Diyarbakir, where she was tortured brutally. As a leading figure of the prisoner’s resistance she became a living legend. After her release in 1991, she joined the Kurdish guerrilla. She played a special role in the founding of the Kurdish women’s guerrilla and the autonomous organisation of women within the Kurdish liberation movement. On January 9, 2013 together with two of her comrades, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Saylemez, she was assassinated by the Turkish intelligence in Paris/France. , Comrade Sara has been a symbol for women’s resistance during her lifetime and continues to drive our struggle beyond her death.

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