(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #237 - Abortion Rights: Women of the world with Spanish (fr, pt)

We are to be lowered 40000-es in the streets in France (30 000 Paris), February 1, in 
support of Spanish who fight to defend abortion rights challenged by the Rajoy government. 
---- Many cities have mobilized against the bill retrograde threatening abortion in Spain 
( see Libertarian Alternative February ): Marseille, Toulouse, Caen, Bordeaux, Nantes, 
Strasbourg, Bourg-en-Bresse, Albi, Lille, Saint -Brieuc... But it is also the European and 
international solidarity was felt through rallies or demonstrations in Brussels, Lisbon, 
London, Dublin, Rome, Rabat. ---- In Lausanne and Geneva as well, since the Swiss were 
called es to vote the same day as the vote against immigration, February 9, on a text 
submitted by the conservative Democratic Union of the Centre for the delisting of 
abortion. This initiative was fortunately rejected.

Solidarity based

In Spain, there were tens of thousands of protesters across the country: Madrid, Bilbao, 
Murcia, Valladolid, Alicante, Barcelona... And the struggle continues, stronger than ever, 
between the work of coordination various feminist groups, the various rallies, occupations 
of churches (such as the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona) and the preparation of a March 8 
combative. This is not to let these offensives against the right of women to decide for 
themselves.

March 8 was chosen as the next step in the mobilization for the right of women to control 
their bodies but it is not to settle for yet another demonstration without perspective. We 
need to create real networks of European solidarity with the Spanish but also with Poles, 
the Irish, the Maltese and Cypriots who face these states denying them the right to 
abortion. Solidarity that must be built from the bottom because feminism lobbies and 
undemocratic as that advocated by the CNDF is incompatible with our libertarian feminist 
project.

Democratic feminism

We will tear our rights struggle and we will not go begging to the powerful who govern us. 
Because it is the capitalist system and its discourse of crisis that go against our right 
to have our body: closing abortion clinics, cuts that make distribution of the pill more 
difficult to establish the associations Spanish.

It is to mobilize bottom to reconstruct a combative and free from gravity undemocratic 
institutional associations feminist movement. In Paris, feminist collectives and 
associations trying to create frameworks more democratic and combative, let's see what 
happens...

Myl?ne (AL Paris West)