{"content":[{"text":"that is, the emergence of socialism. While Russia’s experience with socialism would eventually \n be crushed by the rising Bolshevik state, that does nothing to discredit the vital role played by \n women in the establishment of one of history’s most encompassing social revolutions.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.091363,"width":0.7503819999999999,"height":0.05224899999999999}},{"text":"The revolutionary history of IWWD is now often forgotten. When the UN adopted the date in \n 1975, there was a concerted effort to remove Working from the title. Since then, the day has \n progressively shifted from an expression of struggle for women’s liberation to one of corporate \n brunches and feel-good slogans espousing the apparent successes of liberal feminism. For \n many, IWWD is now less a day of rage and action against the system that exploits and \n oppresses women, and more of a celebration of the same ‘Girl Bosses’ and female politicians \n that help to perpetuate that system.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.161614,"width":0.7454449999999999,"height":0.125715}},{"text":"What’s more, the day is now often used by so-called ‘radical feminist’ groups to push an agenda \n of hatred and oppression against trans women and sex workers, punching down against some \n of societies most vulnerable, rather than building the solidarity needed to struggle against \n capitalism, patriarchy and the state.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.305331,"width":0.760783,"height":0.07061599999999996}},{"text":"Looking around us today it is clear that the struggle for women’s liberation is far from finished, \n women continue to be forced into the ‘double shift’ of waged and domestic labour and suffer \n horrendous rates of domestic violence, all the while suffering from far higher rates of poverty \n and homelessness. Locally and globally women are oppressed and exploited in horrible \n conditions to fund the lifestyle of the West, they are forced to live in fear of the next drone strike, \n the next invasion. Just over the past two weeks we’ve seen the LNP government yet again \n show it’s utter disdain and hatred of women with its sustained support for Christian Porter and \n disregard for survivors. The government’s imminent changes to Jobseeker, which we have \n written about previously, can also be seen as a direct attack on unemployed women, \n threatening to make their lives even more precarious and dangerous.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.393949,"width":0.760438,"height":0.18081400000000003}},{"text":"Poverty, imperialism, colonialism, domestic violence, racism, workplace exploitation, \n transphobia and the like are all components of the oppression women face and they need to be \n struggled against together.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.592765,"width":0.755873,"height":0.05224899999999999}},{"text":"It is far too common to see women’s oppression in a vacuum. It’s because of this vacuum that \n capitalism can simultaneously sell us corporate feminism, claiming that someone like Sarina \n Russo is an example of the success of the feminism, while she simultaneously lines her pockets \n through violence against women in the JobActive system.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.663016,"width":0.761714,"height":0.0706159999999999}},{"text":"The intersection of these issues is the reason that this year in Meanjin (so-called Brisbane), \n revolutionary trans and sex worker inclusive organisation Feminist Action and Anti-Poverty \n Network Qld have come together to organise an International Working Women’s Day rally on \n the 6th of March under the slogan: ‘The War on the Poor is a War on Women’.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.751634,"width":0.7347890000000001,"height":0.07061499999999998}},{"text":"While the reemergence of IWWD rallies based on intersectionality and the reclamation of the \n day’s revolutionary roots is an important and positive step, on their own they are not enough. \n One rally a year changes nothing. We need to move beyond the idea of having our voices heard","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.840251,"width":0.7625120000000001,"height":0.05224899999999999}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}