Between the 13th and 20th of March the Red Women’s Committees (RWC) held a series of public lectures on the development of the revolutionary women’s movement in Brazil in six cities. Some 100 interested attended the events in Bochum, Bremen, Cologne, Essen, Hamburg and Leipzig. The lectures was focused particularly on the work of the People’s Women’s Movement (MFP) in the development of the revolutionary people’s movement, in the countryside as well as in the cities.
The activists of the RWC presenting the lectures gave the attendees a general overview of the political situation in Brazil and illustrated how the people unfold its struggle against the semi-feudal and semi-colonial conditions imposed by imperialism. The analysis by the MFP of the particular patriarchal oppression of the women was laid out as well as its basic ideological, political and organizational line in politicizing, mobilizing and organizing the revolutionary force of the female people’s masses as part of the ongoing surge of people’s protests.
The report on the role of the female comrades in the struggle in Barro Branco, the interview given by comrade Elba Ribeiro of the MFP to the newspaper A Nova Democracia and many other materials was used in the lectures, which all together gave the presentations a vivid and inspiring character. The attendees where amazed by the strength and courage of the combative daughters of the Brazilian people and their exemplary selflessness in serving the cause of the exploited and oppressed.
All the lectures were followed by lively and engaged discussions based on the questions of the attendees. Subjects such as the general understanding of the patriarchate and its connection to private property, the special role of the peasantry in the democratic revolution, the influence of degenerated imperialist culture in the oppressed nations and many more were discussed. A common comment from the numerous attendees who for the first time got an overall image of the work developed by the revolutionary women of Brazil, was that this movement deserves a lot more attention than it is given among anti-imperialists in Germany in general.
The comrades of the RWC are content with the series of public lectures and consider that it has served not only the broad raising of anti-imperialist consciousness in general, and the internationalist solidarity with the revolutionary women’s movement in Brazil in particular, put also the development of the class-consciousness women’s movement in the Germany. The comrades state that only by learning from their class sisters in the oppressed nations, who are at the forefront of the Proletarian World Revolution, the revolutionary women’s movement in this country can develop to a higher stage and so raise up to the needs of the hour.
Finally we have to mention that one of the planned lectures, the one in Dortmund, had to be canceled due to sabotage by the disgusting “Anti-Deutsche1”, who were able to convince/threaten the proprietaries of the local, that should have been used for the presentation, to impede the access to it by the RWC. The comrades decided to give an answer fully in line with the position of the MFP and participated in a assembly in support of the National Resistance Front of Palestine together with the deepest and broadest masses of the city. Still, the comrades developing the work of the RWC in Dortmund will hold the public lecture on the revolutionary women’s in Brazil on a later date.
