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Madrid. Spanish state. Statement by La Ingobernable, that have released a new building in the heart of Madrid.

Originally published by La Ingobernable. Translated by Squat Net.

For our friends.
For the ones who fight every day. For those who are gone. In this month of feminist revolt, of organized rage, of joy and of struggle, we, the neighbors of Madrid, make public the recovery of the building in Calle Alberto Bosch 4, as a new common and open space in the heart of Madrid.

Now, in this week more than ever, we must remember the role that social centers have had, have and will have for the feminist movement, as a space for convergence, construction and self-organisation.

The attack on social centers is undoubtedly a direct attack on feminism, which we are not prepared to tolerate. In recent years we have witnessed a lamentable spectacle in which a few people share out the city, selling it to the highest bidder or handing it over to friends while others are thrown out of our neighbourhoods.

Recently we learned that the building of La Ingobernable (Paseo del Prado 30) was once again being given, in the style of the PP, to a foundation directed by the former mayor Gallardón to build a museum instead of the so promised endowments for the neighborhood that the current mayor, Martínez-Almeida, was advocating during the electoral campaign.

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One of the four feminist squats announced on 8-M in Barcelona has been evicted

As part of the Fem Llars Feministes campaign (‘Let’s make Feminist Homes’), the women of the Right to Housing movement made public four occupations in the Gràcia, Trinitat Vella, Sants and Poble-sec neighborhoods yesterday, eleven flats in total.

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They denounce that the problem of housing “has a woman’s face” and say that it is they who are fighting in the front line. Following the press conference this morning, the Mossos Police Force have evicted the building on Mauritius Sarrahima Street

It is the second year that the housing right movement, with the complicity of the feminist movement, is occupying real estate on the 8th of March. During the day yesterday, housing squatters were announced in several neighborhoods of Barcelona: an entire block in Gràcia, another in Sants, a flat in Poble-sec and another in Trinitat Vella.

In total, eleven housing units for women involved in various groups and unions, which today in a press conference wanted to claim publicly that the housing problem has a “woman’s face”, but at the same time they are the ones who are on the front line of the fight.

Just after the press conference ended in front of the busy block in Gràcia, on Maurici Sarrahima Street, the Mossos anti-riot unit arrived to carry out the eviction.

Last night, about a dozen Brimo’s (Riot Police) units had already attempted a night eviction, which housing groups had avoided by placing a barricade of furniture in front of the building and calling for a popular dinner.

Activists say that the block was empty for two years and explained that they were in contact with the property to negotiate. However, the eviction was carried out and two people were identified by the police.

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Turkish police use tear gas to break up Women’s Day march in İstanbul

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Turkish police fired tear gas and plastic bullets to break up a crowd of several thousand women who gathered in central İstanbul on Sunday evening for a march to celebrate International Women’s Day, according to Turkish media reports.

The crowd gathered at the edge of the city’s Taksim Square, planning to hold a march although the İstanbul Governor’s Office had earlier banned demonstrations and marches on İstiklal Street, where police teams set up barricades earlier in the day. It is the second year in a row that the governor’s office has refused permission for organizers to hold the annual rally in the Taksim area.

Hundreds of riot police blocked the women’s path to prevent them from advancing along the district’s main pedestrian avenue for the 18^th “Feminist Night March,” held in İstanbul since 2003 to mark women’s day.

Continue reading “Police and Misogynists attack giant Womens demos in Mexico, Turkey, Pakistan… Mexican and Chilean General Strikes Monday”

Women and men carry signs as they take part in an Aurat March, or Women’s March in Lahore, Pakistan March 8, 2020. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Islamists pelted campaigners with stones, shoes and sticks as they marched through Pakistan’s capital on Sunday to mark International Women’s Day.Women and men joined the event in Islamabad, one of several rallies across the country, for what is known in Pakistan as the Aurat March, using the Urdu word for women

Officers blocked the Islamists as they tried to break through a cordon to attack the marchers. A Reuters witness said the Islamists threw stones, bricks, sticks and shoes at the marchers. Religious groups are pictured protesting against the event

Several people were reportedly injured as social and religious conservatives clashed with International Women’s Day demonstrators in Islamabad on March 8. RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal reported that participants in a conservative demonstration called Modesty Walk threw stones at demonstrators holding a march to mark International Women’s Day. Ismat Shahjahan, head of the Women’s Democratic Front, which organized the march, said four participants suffered head injuries, while three others were less seriously hurt.

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• Women’s Rights .. Al Jazeera shared with thanks

Young activists and their older counterparts explain why they are uniting to fight for women’s rights in Pakistan.by Alia Chughtai 3 hours ago

Women sing songs as they take part in Aurat March, Urdu for Women’s March, in Islamabad, Pakistan March 8, 2020. REUTERS/Saiyna Bashir

Thousands of women have marched across Pakistan’s main urban centres to mark International Women’s Day.

Continue reading “Pakistan’s Women’s March: Shaking patriarchy . . Injuries as Cops let men Stone the Demo”

from FAU Berlin, shared with thanks

Around Germany, syndicates of the Free Workers’ Union (FAU) have called for protest and planned actions and events for this weekend to mark International Women’s Day.

[WHAT IS WOMEN'S FREEDOM?]

We asked internationalist women in NE-Syria: from #8M2020 until 21st March, Kurdish NY, we will be sharing their answers, starting with this collection. For freedom, for revolution, for #InternationalWomensDay2020 #WomenDefendRojava#Womensfreedom8m pic.twitter.com/p9mSaUFlXA

— Kongra Star Diplomacy Rojava (@starrcongress) March 7, 2020

The FAU Berlin has called for participation in multiple demonstrations in and around Berlin this weekend with the following declaration: It’s no coincidence that material injustice and cultural oppression live hand in hand in the capitalist system.

It’s also no coincidence that people affected by sexism, racism or other forms of discrimination find themselves disproportionately often in poverty and insecure working conditions. Those who live with culturally and institutionally rooted non-recognition are more easily pushed into exploitative relationships with low wages and bad working conditions.

In the logic of capitalism, the pervasive discrimination against these exploited groups serves to justify and mystify the contradiction between the “welfare promise” and simultaneously existing injustice.

When women, people of color, trans and inter people, people without a German passport, and people in materially poor living conditions are denigrated or completely pushed out of public consciousness, this serves to stabilize a system that is fundamentally based on exploitation and domination – because these structures of discrimination ultimately prevent an overarching solidarity of workers against the capitalist regime.

There is no capitalism that does not link material injustice with discrimination, whether on the basis of gender, origin, skin colour, religion, nationality, residence status, sexual orientation, disability, criminal prosecution, or or or.

Therefore, there can be no class struggle that does not at the same time oppose sexism, racism and any kind of discrimination!

That is why we are taking to the streets on the 8th of March! For a feminist, anti-racist class struggle!

For an anti-capitalist feminism!Walk on!

Another world is possible! FAU Berlín