What's new this week: “the land is socialized and belongs to the peasants!”
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::: Alexandra Kollontai: The Years of Revolution
Alexandra Kollontai was a Russian revolutionary who fought bravely against the brutality of tsarism, political persecution, and the reality of hunger and war that ravaged life in pre-Soviet Russia. During the revolution, she played an important role mobilizing women and the working class in general. She organized radical contributions about women’s emancipation and the role of the family and sexual morality in the maintenance of capital. In the early days of the Soviet regime, she spearheaded socialist policies for women’s liberation. We selected parts of the “The Years of Revolution” section from her 1926 book “The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman.” | Experience
::: Feminism in Mozambique: For Land, Freedom, Sisterhood, and a Life Free of Violence
Nzira Deus exposes land encroachment and violence in Mozambique and shares feminist strategies toward organizing for change. “Many call women sorcerers because of their prayers and practices. But these are traditional practices women pass on from generation to generation. Knowledge is their strength. Those who hold capital and sexist power know this and they feel threatened by this power, which is invisible, but very strong” | Analysis
Call for Posters: Anti-Imperialist Feminism To Change the World
To strengthen this revolutionary feminism, we call all women to express their artwork in our Call for Posters organized in partnership with the Capire portal, the International Peoples’ Assembly, and the International Week of Anti-Imperialist Struggle. The posters may include illustrations, photographs, collage works… What matters is the creativity and the will to make a contribution. We will use the materials submitted to organize an international virtual gallery to be launched on May 1st, Workers’ Day!
More information, reading references, selection requirements, and the application form are available on the Capire website.
...And, since you are here, access also past weeks' content:
::: Coup and Grassroosts Struggle in Haiti: Watch Activist Islanda Micherline
Islanda Micherline recorded a video addressing the alarming situation faced by the Haitian people and calls for solidarity with the country | Analysis
::: Women Resist Land Grabbing and Free Zone in Haiti
Feminist farm school faces threat from Coca-Cola monoculture | Experience
::: The Challenges of Grassroots Feminism in Arab Countries
Ten years after the “Arab spring,” Souad Mahmoud reflects on women’s living conditions and struggle as they face conservatism and instrumentalization | Analysis
::: Grassroots Feminism in Face of the Brutality and False Diversity of Capital
Read and listen to the words of Claudia de la Cruz, of the International Peoples’ Assembly, from her contribution at the “Challenges of Grassroots Feminism” Webinar. "There is a diversity of people and businesses that look like us, for the color of their skin, for their gender… But their agenda belongs to the bourgeoisie" | Analysis
::: Popular Peasant Feminism: We Have a New World To Build in Our Hands
Read and listen to the words of Yolanda Areas Blass, of La Via Campesina, from her contribution at the “Challenges of Grassroots Feminism” Webinar. “We are women who farm the land, we are fisherwomen, we are working women in the rural world. Our identity is the struggle for emancipation" | Analysis
::: #FeministSchool: Launch Celebrates the Legacy of Berta Cáceres
Online event paid tribute to women’s struggles in their territories and illustrated the importance of education for grassroots feminist international organizing | Multimedia
::: Grassroots Organizing To Tackle Life-Threatening Systemic Crises
Read and listen to the words of Karin Nansen, chair of Friends of the Earth International, from her contribution at the “Challenges of Grassroots Feminism” Webinar. "there is no way for us to express and strengthen ourselves as collective political subjects if we don’t dismantle these systems of oppression" | Analysis
::: Feminist Struggle for Freedom and Sovereignty in Palestine
This is an edited version of a speech Khitam Saafin gave in October 2020. Khitam is currently detained by the Israeli occupation. Free Khitam! | Analysis
The gallery “Living Memory of March 8” is Capire’s first contribution to build and keep our collective memory, gathering a snippet of the strength of March 8 across the world. We feature 133 pictures by 44 women from 40 places (cities, territories, countries) who have submitted their photographs. Please, access, see the photos and share!
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