Wednesday, March 25
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Indianapolis Liberation Center
1619 Prospect St.
Sustain the struggle for socialism in Indiana!
The U.S pays lip service to women’s issues globally as it pursues a far-right anti-woman agenda at home and abroad. Nothing makes this more striking than when, at the start of the latest illegal and imperialist war against Iran, the U.S. dropped multiple bombs on a girls’ elementary school, killing over 160 students, school workers, and community members. Warmongers cynically exploit liberal feminism to demonize the “enemy” and manufacture support for war—a practice known as purple washing.
Meanwhile, the version of the women’s movement we learn from U.S. schools and media is not only insufficient but upside-down. For example, the common notion that the second-wave feminist movement was “white” and “middle class” couldn’t be further from the truth. When we accept and repeat that trope, we continue to erase the tremendous contributions of working-class and poor women and women from oppressed nationalities and identities. Liberal feminism was but one of many forces that made up the truly mass movement that included the Third World Women’s Alliance, the socialist Combahee River Collective, Bread and Roses, not to mention the historic contributions of Latina farm-workers and Chicana groupings, lesbian organizations, and more. It didn’t end there.
The history of the women’s struggle has also been muddied by capitalists and stripped of its vital connections to the struggles for Black liberation and workers’ power. The unity between white and Black workers, like Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Claudia Jones, and the leadership of a militant and dedicated group of socialist organizers, continues to be a powerful force.
For this year’s annual Women’s History Month Liberation Forum, we’ll examine the real reasons the U.S. is at war against the Iranian Revolution, provide an objective appraisal of the gains of the Revolution and dispel the myths circulating throughout the mainstream media; tell the real story of the long-struggle for women’s liberation in the U.S., draw out the connections between the struggle against imperialism and for women’s liberation, and most importantly, strategize on how to unite these struggles and move the movement forward in the U.S.
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Questions? Contact@PSLIndianapolis.org.
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