PaRCha - JNU - DSU - 2014 ID-58593
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looking back at the lnternauonal Woman's oav and_. .
II~ ,.
The challenges lacing the women's movement In the countrv .
Two days back was the International Women's Day, a day that symbolizes the more than century old struggles and victories .
of the organised women's movement. Our campus too saw posters, pamphlets and calls for marches in support of the legacy of .
s Day. Crucially this time, it was at a juncture when our hard won institutions like the GSCASH are facing .
the International Women'.
.
attacks from the powers that be. But just as this campus celebrates tts struggles and victories and renews its pledge to fight to defend .
the same, we were also witness to the vulgar performances steeped in patriarchal values in the cultural nights in various hostels on the same day. Probably, many of us who might have joined in the marches yesterday or earlier may even have been in the crowds cheering the performances. All this merely reinforces that desprte the eXistence of hard won institutions like the GSCASH, deeply .
entrenched patriarchal values continue to operate amidst us which many of us may not even be aware of. Our slogans, marches, and .
institutions will be rendered meaningless without a consistent and protracted struggle to transform our consciousness and challenge .
the structures that generate it in the first place. GSCASH came into being through protracted students' movement for a more gender just campus. GSCASH is not an institution handed over to us by the powers that be. It is our organized militant assertion against conscious and unconscious patriarchal values that breed in given oppressive social structure wi.thin us that necessitated the demand for an institution like GSCASH. But if we look at our campus today, the institution of GSCASH has unfortunately replaced the valiant movement that .
's .
should have sustained it. The result is that it has become another bureaucratic body and an easy prey to the administration.
machinations. Not only are several cases registered in GSCASH remaining pending with no action been taken against the perpetrators, but at times the administration has also been able to blatantly shield harrasers. This is particularly visible when it comes to members of faculty, when the administration has even-overturned the recommendations of GSCASH: And it isshameful that even .
's context it is significant that we ~~ so called 'Left/progressive' forces -AlSAISFI -have willingly participated in such shielding. In today.
fight to strengthen GSCASH by making its recommendations binding on the administration. .
Today, when we protest at India Gate to defend the autonomy of institutions l'ike GSCASH in campus spaces and .
workplaces from the politically motivated state intervention, it must not be seen as separate from the struggle against the .
age-old patriarchal values and consciousness. There cannot be any replacement for our militant struggle. GSCASH is the first .
body of its kind inthe entire country, whrch came into being after asustained and protracted movement by the progressive sections of .
,., ' ' .
the student communrty. It was this movement only that also ensured their representation in this body. This was despite the .
unwillingness of the administration which has often shielded sexual offenders, be it within the students, teachers or karmcharis. .
Today through either the Ashok Mathur Review Committee or aseries of recent bills and subsequent alterations, the ruling classes of .
the country intends to render such bodies toothless and snatch away our hard-earned achievements. The same reactionary approach .
is also visible in the manner in which the ruling classes through agovt. ordinance are bypassing the progressiverecommendations of .
a Committee (the Verma Committee) that it itself appointed. All this comes as no surprise. An inherently patriarchal state that rapes .
with impunity to push through its anti-people policies and agendas is trving to safeguard what it was forced to concede in the face of a,..d progressive demands of the woman's mo:Vement in India. The reactionary right-wing RSS-BJP which was-ctamouring .
the mifrtant.:.
for death penalty and lynching of ttre rapists after the 161h December Delhi gang rape case is projecting the mass rapist Narendra .
Modi as its PM candidate, and has even installed the statue of SaJwa Judum leader Kartam Surya involved inraping several adivasi .
women in Chhattisgarh. It is these same powers that are behind the recent attacks on the autonomy of the GSCASH. .
Every issue is a women's issue and no issue is a women's issue alone. Patriarchy and sexual violence do not operate in .
_-isolation but feed into feudal, communal and imperialist interests. The oppression and violence on women are potent weapons in the hands of ruling classes to perpetuate their oppression on the people and preserve the status quo to their interests. Time and -again, the state sponsored violence in Kashmir, North East or Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Orissa or ruling class's vigilante groups like Salwa Judum make women their target of sexual violence in order to continue their forced domination on the oppressed masses. Thus to overturn this oppressive structure and unjust social relations we must strike at the root of patriarchal social reJations. In the same vein, the struggle of the women as oppressed is part and parcel of revolutionary transformation of the society towards an equal.
,i s right to choose their education, careers, clothes. life style and fife partners across the country in .
just order. The assertion of women'' and imperialist cities, in the forests and countryside is a blow to feudal values, which enmeshes perfectly with comprador classes.
si values in semi colonial semi feudal reality of this country. The fight for fair wages for the woman worker blends into the struggle .
p .
against imperialism. The struggle for the dignity of D~lit women is an integral part of the struggles to annihilate caste and smash .
n .
feudalism. The resistance of tribal women strengthens the fight for their right to jal, jangal and zameen against the corporate MNCs .
s~ looting the country's natural resource, the resoluteness of the Kashmiri and North-East women takes forward their struggle for self .
.
Ul .
struggle of the revolutionary masses of this country to smash patriarchy and free the society from feudal-imperialist stranglehold. .
re .
m1 .
0~ determination. It is in the unity of these struggles waged by women in various context which must be unite.d with the organised .
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.
.
PaRCha - JNU - DSU - 2014 ID-58593
.
·U:⭕ .o::!.-. .
; .
,. l;:r~· :;:;.
','}., .
~.
~:;,;~;~!~~~b~~bl;~g_,~l...i~.·...-J..U...~~Jl~;....~~~ .
' Jbj s/JS .
. .
' .. .
looking back at the lnternauonal Woman's oav and_. .
II~ ,.
The challenges lacing the women's movement In the countrv .
Two days back was the International Women's Day, a day that symbolizes the more than century old struggles and victories .
of the organised women's movement. Our campus too saw posters, pamphlets and calls for marches in support of the legacy of .
s Day. Crucially this time, it was at a juncture when our hard won institutions like the GSCASH are facing .
the International Women'.
.
attacks from the powers that be. But just as this campus celebrates tts struggles and victories and renews its pledge to fight to defend .
the same, we were also witness to the vulgar performances steeped in patriarchal values in the cultural nights in various hostels on the same day. Probably, many of us who might have joined in the marches yesterday or earlier may even have been in the crowds cheering the performances. All this merely reinforces that desprte the eXistence of hard won institutions like the GSCASH, deeply .
entrenched patriarchal values continue to operate amidst us which many of us may not even be aware of. Our slogans, marches, and .
institutions will be rendered meaningless without a consistent and protracted struggle to transform our consciousness and challenge .
the structures that generate it in the first place. GSCASH came into being through protracted students' movement for a more gender just campus. GSCASH is not an institution handed over to us by the powers that be. It is our organized militant assertion against conscious and unconscious patriarchal values that breed in given oppressive social structure wi.thin us that necessitated the demand for an institution like GSCASH. But if we look at our campus today, the institution of GSCASH has unfortunately replaced the valiant movement that .
's .
should have sustained it. The result is that it has become another bureaucratic body and an easy prey to the administration.
machinations. Not only are several cases registered in GSCASH remaining pending with no action been taken against the perpetrators, but at times the administration has also been able to blatantly shield harrasers. This is particularly visible when it comes to members of faculty, when the administration has even-overturned the recommendations of GSCASH: And it isshameful that even .
's context it is significant that we ~~ so called 'Left/progressive' forces -AlSAISFI -have willingly participated in such shielding. In today.
fight to strengthen GSCASH by making its recommendations binding on the administration. .
Today, when we protest at India Gate to defend the autonomy of institutions l'ike GSCASH in campus spaces and .
workplaces from the politically motivated state intervention, it must not be seen as separate from the struggle against the .
age-old patriarchal values and consciousness. There cannot be any replacement for our militant struggle. GSCASH is the first .
body of its kind inthe entire country, whrch came into being after asustained and protracted movement by the progressive sections of .
,., ' ' .
the student communrty. It was this movement only that also ensured their representation in this body. This was despite the .
unwillingness of the administration which has often shielded sexual offenders, be it within the students, teachers or karmcharis. .
Today through either the Ashok Mathur Review Committee or aseries of recent bills and subsequent alterations, the ruling classes of .
the country intends to render such bodies toothless and snatch away our hard-earned achievements. The same reactionary approach .
is also visible in the manner in which the ruling classes through agovt. ordinance are bypassing the progressiverecommendations of .
a Committee (the Verma Committee) that it itself appointed. All this comes as no surprise. An inherently patriarchal state that rapes .
with impunity to push through its anti-people policies and agendas is trving to safeguard what it was forced to concede in the face of a,..d progressive demands of the woman's mo:Vement in India. The reactionary right-wing RSS-BJP which was-ctamouring .
the mifrtant.:.
for death penalty and lynching of ttre rapists after the 161h December Delhi gang rape case is projecting the mass rapist Narendra .
Modi as its PM candidate, and has even installed the statue of SaJwa Judum leader Kartam Surya involved inraping several adivasi .
women in Chhattisgarh. It is these same powers that are behind the recent attacks on the autonomy of the GSCASH. .
Every issue is a women's issue and no issue is a women's issue alone. Patriarchy and sexual violence do not operate in .
_-isolation but feed into feudal, communal and imperialist interests. The oppression and violence on women are potent weapons in the hands of ruling classes to perpetuate their oppression on the people and preserve the status quo to their interests. Time and -again, the state sponsored violence in Kashmir, North East or Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Orissa or ruling class's vigilante groups like Salwa Judum make women their target of sexual violence in order to continue their forced domination on the oppressed masses. Thus to overturn this oppressive structure and unjust social relations we must strike at the root of patriarchal social reJations. In the same vein, the struggle of the women as oppressed is part and parcel of revolutionary transformation of the society towards an equal.
,i s right to choose their education, careers, clothes. life style and fife partners across the country in .
just order. The assertion of women'' and imperialist cities, in the forests and countryside is a blow to feudal values, which enmeshes perfectly with comprador classes.
si values in semi colonial semi feudal reality of this country. The fight for fair wages for the woman worker blends into the struggle .
p .
against imperialism. The struggle for the dignity of D~lit women is an integral part of the struggles to annihilate caste and smash .
n .
feudalism. The resistance of tribal women strengthens the fight for their right to jal, jangal and zameen against the corporate MNCs .
s~ looting the country's natural resource, the resoluteness of the Kashmiri and North-East women takes forward their struggle for self .
.
Ul .
struggle of the revolutionary masses of this country to smash patriarchy and free the society from feudal-imperialist stranglehold. .
re .
m1 .
0~ determination. It is in the unity of these struggles waged by women in various context which must be unite.d with the organised .
-.
.
.