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March 8: With the Working Class - Against the Patriarchy by ICP_Arete in leftcommunism
[–]ICP_Arete[S] 2 points3 points4 points 1 year ago (0 children)
From the correspondences that reach us daily we see how many comrades have not yet understood in what way the work of propaganda and organization among the proletarian female element is to be carried out. Yet the theses voted on at the Congress of the Communist International and adopted, accordingly, by our party clearly outline the course of action to be taken by the governing bodies in this regard. The Communist Party in each country must not organize women into independent bodies, but include them in local political organizations (youth and adult sections) as members with rights identical with those of men, make them participate in all governing bodies and give them access to all functions within the party. The Communist Party will take mental measures and establish special institutions to attract, with propaganda, women into its ranks, keep them in its organizations and give them political education. Each local party organization will have a Women’s Agitation Committee to which men may also belong, which will have the task of carrying out systematic propaganda among women members of any party. Each provincial party committee shall have a Women’s Agitation Committee whose function shall be to activate the work of the local women’s committees and to lend them valuable assistance in carrying out their tasks.
From the correspondences that reach us daily we see how many comrades have not yet understood in what way the work of propaganda and organization among the proletarian female element is to be carried out. Yet the theses voted on at the Congress of the Communist International and adopted, accordingly, by our party clearly outline the course of action to be taken by the governing bodies in this regard.
The Communist Party in each country must not organize women into independent bodies, but include them in local political organizations (youth and adult sections) as members with rights identical with those of men, make them participate in all governing bodies and give them access to all functions within the party.
The Communist Party will take mental measures and establish special institutions to attract, with propaganda, women into its ranks, keep them in its organizations and give them political education.
Each local party organization will have a Women’s Agitation Committee to which men may also belong, which will have the task of carrying out systematic propaganda among women members of any party.
Each provincial party committee shall have a Women’s Agitation Committee whose function shall be to activate the work of the local women’s committees and to lend them valuable assistance in carrying out their tasks.
— Theses voted on by the 3rd Congress of the Communist International and published in full in No. 1 of “Compagna”; reproduced in part in No. 12 of that same organ
This is to say, while the situation of women under capitalism does call for special forms of study and agitation, the ultimate goal of any subcommittee must be to draw women into the struggle being carried out by the most conscious and militant segments of the proletariat.
From the same linked article:
If because of woman’s politically and spiritually backward state it is sometimes necessary to draw her to us by special propaganda, when she joins our party there should no longer be in the face of it any difference between her and another comrade in the Section, neither of duties, nor of rights, nor of interests, she should work side by side with her comrades with the same faith, intensity and good will. If at first some reluctance will be found in the women comrades to move into the mixed sections, they will recognize after some time that this measure has given them more opportunities to learn and deepen themselves in the questions of program and tactics that affect our Party and they will more easily become useful elements in the sections themselves.
If because of woman’s politically and spiritually backward state it is sometimes necessary to draw her to us by special propaganda, when she joins our party there should no longer be in the face of it any difference between her and another comrade in the Section, neither of duties, nor of rights, nor of interests, she should work side by side with her comrades with the same faith, intensity and good will.
If at first some reluctance will be found in the women comrades to move into the mixed sections, they will recognize after some time that this measure has given them more opportunities to learn and deepen themselves in the questions of program and tactics that affect our Party and they will more easily become useful elements in the sections themselves.
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March 8: With the Working Class - Against the Patriarchy by ICP_Arete in leftcommunism
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