Archive for 'Reclaim the Night'
What role for socialists in the fight against sexist violence?
Posted by John, December 5th, 2012 - under Direct Action, Jill Meagher, Reclaim the Night, Revolutionary Socialist Party, Socialist Alternative, Women's oppression.
Comments: 13
Marxists have an equally firm determination to eliminate all of the oppressions of capitalism. We don’t consider any of these oppressions as inherently more important than others.
And because these oppressions all serve the interests of the capitalists, every struggle against oppression is objectively an ally of every other such struggle. A central task for socialists is to spread an understanding of this objective reality.
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Big Reclaim the Night march in Melbourne in October
Posted by John, November 23rd, 2012 - under Direct Action, Reclaim the Night, Women's liberation, Women's oppression.
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The Reclaim the Night Sydney Road collective, which organised the October 20 rally and march, refused to engage with any policies that would give further powers to police. Instead, the march called for an end to violence against women, support for survivors, an end to victim blaming and adequate funding for crisis services. These messages fit the inherently radical nature of Reclaim the Night in that it is a direct community response to a structural problem.
These sentiments resonated throughout the crowd, many of whom were carrying placards with wording such as “I’m here to end sexism, not campaign for CCTV to film it” and “A woman’s place is everywhere”.
Jill Meagher, Reclaim the Night and sectarianism
Posted by John, November 23rd, 2012 - under Jill Meagher, Reclaim the Night, Revolutionary Socialist Party, Socialist Alternative, Women's liberation, Women's oppression.
Comments: 18
I do wonder what our RSP colleagues make of this badly argued blunderbuss of sectarianism. I can only hope they challenge this ludicrous, self-satisfied, smug, anti-working class, infantile nonsense for what it is.
I have made it clear in internal bulletins I have my doubts about the merger with the RSP. But one thing that might come of the fait accompli of merger is a real challenge to the gross inadequacies of our analysis of the women’s movement and our relationship to it, gross inadequacies exemplified so clearly by this article.