Queridas compañeras delegadas del Congreso Nacional del Plenario de Trabajadoras,

Queridas luchadoras por la emancipación de la mujer proletaria  y de toda humanidad oprimida!

 Saludos internacionalistas de todas la trabajadoras y todos los  trabajadores de  la Grecia luchadora, de todas  las compañeras y compañeros  del nuestro Partido Obrero Revolucionario, el EEK!

     Our full and conscious attention, this  First of September 2018, our minds and our hearts are focused to your great Congress in Buenos Aires. 

      As Argentina today has become, together with Turkey, an epicenter of the new explosive stage of the world capitalist crisis, in the same way,  the massive eruption of the women movement in Argentina for the right to a legal, safe and free abortion, for your right on your own life, against all forms of patriarchal brutality generated by a capitalist system in decay and bankruptcy, by the collusion of the bourgeois State with the obscurantist Church has become a point of reference for all fighters of the international working class and oppressed all over the world. 

        It is a source of inspiration and pride particularly for all of us, in different Continents and countries, from Latin America to Europe, the Balkans, Russia, the Middle East and Asia, from Buenos Aires to Athens and Istanbul, from Patagonia to Siberia and Palestine fighting for the new revolutionary International, for the rebirth of the Fourth International.

      Because, first and foremost, the struggle for women emancipation is an international struggle for a universal human emancipation, as Marx has defined world communism. It is tied to the working class because the proletariat is the only universal class: it cannot emancipate itself without abolishing all forms of oppression, exploitation, humiliation of a human being by a human being. And the measure for human emancipation is women emancipation, as Marx again has stressed.

        In this broader historic framework and from the standpoint of the international social revolution, the so-called “women question” has to be approached, not in non-class, liberal terms of accommodation with a dying, corrupt and hypocritical  bourgeois democracy.  The women question is and has to be fought as a revolutionary question.

       The counter-revolutionary bloc of the State with the Church, forbidding the right to abortion, pretends to “protect life”. As a matter of fact, they want to protect their privilege and control over our lives, to continue their tyranny on our bodies as instruments for abuse and exploitation,  to prevent a revolutionary overthrow of their class despotism. 

     Capitalism has expropriated the life of the vast majority of humankind and now threatens every living being on Earth with social devastation, destruction of the environment and imperialist war.  

       Our battle-cry should be: expropriate the expropriators of our Life!

        Permanent revolution for women’s emancipation !  

        Women’s emancipation for the Permanent Revolution!

Con saludos  revolucionarios

                                          on behalf of the EEK

                                        Savvas Michael-Matsas

                                                                        Athens, September 1, 2018