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IF YOU ARE A WOMAN,
YOUR BODY IS A BATTLEGROUND.
Anywhere you look, women are being slammed backwards. In
Bangkok and Bangalore and Moldova young women are stripped naked and sold
across borders as sex slaves. In Indonesia and Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia women are shrouded in veils, kept as the property of men, and even killed if
they somehow “dishonor” their family.
Meanwhile, in the U.S. we are told women are no longer
oppressed. Yet, how many will learn to starve themselves, cut themselves, hate
themselves --- internalizing the images that saturate society of women as
objects of sexual conquest, the butt of a joke, or baby-making machines? How
many will be taught that their value is reducible to being sexually desired by
men, but called “sluts” if they actually have sex? How many will be beaten,
raped, or told that nothing they accomplish is more important than motherhood?
And all women still have to look over their shoulders walking home at
night.
To be born female on any part of this planet is to be
born into a lifetime of danger, disrespect, discrimination and denigration.
What happens to a woman --- whether toiling her
life away in sweatshops from China to Haiti, being raped by soldiers in the Congo, or being denied an abortion in the U.S. --- is NOT her individual problem. What happens to
3˝ billion human beings is not individual, it is systemic and global.
It happens to all of us.
It doesn't have to
be this way! There is no longer
the need for women's role in society to be dictated by their biological role in
childbearing. There is no longer the need for humanity to be hemmed in by
patriarchal traditions and oppressive religious morality. Today, this is as
insane, as it is cruel, as it is utterly unnecessary,
But, the oppression of women is woven so deeply into
the fabric of society here and all over the world, that it will take
total revolution – communist revolution – to liberate women.
On campuses nation-wide, Sunsara Taylor has been making the case why there is no biological, god-given, or man made reason why things
have to remain this way – and how things can change through
revolution and through building a movement for revolution –
starting now! She'll be recruiting a new generation to put their lives
in the service of this most liberating, and meaningful, struggle.
Sunsara
Taylor is a writer for Revolution
Newspaper, a host of WBAI's Equal Time for Freethought, and sits on the
Advisory Board of World Can't Wait. She has written on the rise of theocracy,
wars and repression in the U.S., led in building resistance to these crimes,
and contributes to the movement for revolution to put an end to all this. She
takes as her foundation the new synthesis on revolution and communism developed
by Bob Avakian. You can find her impressive verbal battles with Bill O'Reilly
and various political commentary on things from abortion to religion by
searching “Sunsara Taylor” on youtube. Find Sunsara Taylor on facebook.
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