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From Alborada Comunista, Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Group, Colombia:

Capitalism and Patriarchy: TO GET RID OF BOTH, LET’S MAKE REVOLUTION!

From Iran to Latin America, passing through Palestine, the United States and all parts of the planet: Break the Chains! Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution!

Revolutionary Communist Group, Colombia (comrev.co) | @ComRevCo | March 8, 2024

The problems of women have a lot of universality. The single example of violence against women is very telling. One in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten during her lifetime. Think about this horror: A billion women cruelly raped in the world today. And 38% of the murders of women that occur in the world are committed by their male partner.

March 8: Capitalism and Patriarchy: TO GET RID OF BOTH, LET’S MAKE REVOLUTION!

 

March 8: CAPITALISM AND PATRIARCHY: TO GET RID OF BOTH, LET’S MAKE REVOLUTION!   

Yes, the problems of women have a lot of universality. It is a fact that we live (on the planet as a whole) under a system of capitalism-imperialism. Capitalism is an economic and political system based on exploitation and oppression, and imperialism is the global nature of this system. But the world’s countries are divided into two general categories: Imperialist countries, such as the United States, Russia, and China; or dominated and oppressed nations, such as Iran and Afghanistan or Colombia and Morocco. It is the functioning of this capitalist-imperialist system that has engendered two historically outmoded systems: Imperialism, and religious fundamentalism (which, for now, is more visible in some important regions of the world). These two outmoded systems refer to two completely obsolete structures. The fact that they survive and thrive implies the suffering of humanity, especially women.

On the other hand, almost everywhere there is a wide range of reformist ideas that try to get changes within the structure of the system itself by means of various reforms that legitimize the status quo. They never look for the root causes of the oppression of women and always recognize and respect the red lines that the system draws around the question of women. This political outlook, whose operational activity is generally concentrated in the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and in organizations and institutions close to power, not only does not help the liberation of women, but turns the question of the oppression of women mainly into obtaining jobs for women within government and business. They turn a blind eye when it comes to opposing the crimes of governments, whether openly right-wing or “progressive” governments. They remain silent when it comes to opposing the crimes of imperialism.

Getting to the other side of this abyss to a new and radically different state power—by means of a revolution that has defeated and dismantled the old state power—is not simply a utopian dream. Revolutionary thinker and leader Bob Avakian has brought forward the strategy and roadmap for revolution, not just for countries like the United States but more generally, and an important part of his development consists in recognizing not only the role played by the question of women in the deep crisis of capitalism, but the powerful driving force that the fury of women represents for the positive outcome of the possibilities that we have before us.

We need revolution—nothing less than that—and a whole new world!

We are at a turning point in history. The capitalist-imperialist system is a horror for billions of people here and around the world and threatening the very fabric of life on earth. Now the election of fascist Trump poses even more extreme dangers for humanity—and underscores the total illegitimacy of this system, and the urgent need for a radically different system.

The website Revcom.us follows the revolutionary leadership of Bob Avakian (BA), the author of the new communism. Bob Avakian has scientifically analyzed that we are in a rare time when an actual revolution has become more possible in the U.S. He’s charted a strategy for making that revolution, and laid out a sweeping vision and concrete blueprint for “what comes next” in the Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America.

Revcom.us projects BA’s voice, leadership, and vision throughout society. It posts his timely leadership for the revcoms (revolutionary communists) and the whole movement for revolution, including his social media posts, and curates his whole body of work. 

Our website applies the scientific approach BA has developed to analyze major events in society and the world—why they are happening, how they relate to each other, how all this relates to the system we live under, where people's interests lie, how revolution is in fact the solution to all this, and what the goals of that revolution are.

Revcom.us acts as a guiding and connecting hub for the revcom movement nationwide: showing what’s being done, digging into what’s right and what’s wrong, and rapidly learning—and recruiting new people into what has to be a rapidly growing force. As part of this, revcom.us feature and promotes the weekly The RNL—Revolution, Nothing Less!—Show on YouTube.com. 

Put it this way: there will be no revolution unless this website not only “keeps going” but rises to a whole different level!

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