New Women’s Publication La Obrera Launched
A new revolutionary women’s theoretical publication, called La Obrera, was launched in late February. The new journal focuses on focuses on outlining a class line in the women’s movement, with articles on organizing principles, the 1929 May Day Call to women by the publication The Working Woman, and eclecticism and centrism in the women’s movement. In an editorial statement from their first edition, they state:
We launch La Obrera with the hopes of establishing it as a tool for women’s liberation, national liberation, and socialist revolution, three goals which cannot and will never be separated for the women of our class. After years of patient work in our respective organizations and sectors, the contributors and editorial staff of our publication have created La Obrera so that we can begin to rectify the theoretical underdevelopment which plagues the women’s movement in the United States. We choose the name La Obrera, which means a woman worker or laborer in Spanish, in homage to the original CPUSA publication The Working Woman, and because of the inspiration we draw from the revolutionary women’s movement in Latin America and the lines which it has produced.
We aim for a revolutionary women’s publication that unabashedly takes the line of our class, the proletariat, the modern working class. We stand against the ideas and theories of the class enemy of the workers, the capitalist class, who through private property and patriarchal social systems keep women in general, and women workers in particular, oppressed and ultra-exploited. We stand for a clear eyed view of the women’s question, which so often becomes a second thought for many so-called “revolutionary” groups on the Left. We stand against the prevalence of reactionary misogynist leaders in many opportunist and revisionist organizations on the one hand, and the postmodern liquidationist practices of “call-out culture” on the other hand. Instead we stand for open struggle on women’s question and questions of misogyny on the Left, and stand for a revolutionary movement that takes women’s liberation as a central component part of its theory and practice which cannot be ignored nor removed. There are two lines within the women’s movement, a revolutionary line and a counter-revolutionary line. La Obrera is a fervent partisan of the former, of a revolutionary line which will carry all women and all workers and all humanity to liberation from oppression and exploitation.
To read more from La Obrera, their first edition can be found here.
Neighborhood Defense Units Hold Mass Meetings
Over the course of February, activists across the country held mass meetings or rallies around neighborhood defense and against ICE attacks on their communities. Presentations and trainings were held on how to fight back and organize against ICE terror were given. The call to build neighborhood defense units was propagated, with cities like Denton, TX forming such units at their events. The struggle to defend communities against ICE terror was connected to the unjust prosecution of the Prairieland Defendants, who are facing terrorism charges in response to a noise demonstration. As the struggle against ICE and other state terror (including that from the police) continues, false charges and attempts to stifle mass resistance will continue, which highlights the urgent need to build up a class-conscious neighborhood movement for proper defense of our communities.
Students Walk Out In Protest of ICE, Rapists, and Fascists
Several chapters of the Revolutionary Student Union held walkouts mobilizing hundreds of students from their schools against ICE and sexual abusers. In Columbus, OH, a walkout of 150 students was held to demonstrate against Les Wexner, a billionaire with financial and personal ties to the Epstein sex trafficking ring. In Oklahoma City, OK, and Washtenaw, MI students held walkouts to demand ICE out of the city, calling for neighborhood defense units to be built in their neighborhood. In Providence, RI, students participated in a rally against the presence of local fascists. All of these actions highlight the problem of rising fascism in our country, and the need for the masses to take up class struggle to fight back.
