In a struggle against the right opportunism of AF3IRM's leadership--a US-based, women's organization that focuses particularly on the violence of the sex trade--numerous members split from the organization and now aim to start a new, revolutionary proletarian feminist organization. Gigi, Feroz, Esperanza and Jacqui join me to discuss the failures of AF3IRM's leadership and what a new proletarian feminist organization might look like.
Read the summation and criticism here!
Questions:
- What was the fundamental two line struggle that emerged within AF3IRM?
- What are some of the ways in which right opportunism is manifested within both AF3IRM and SEIU?
- How could a scientific, materialist and communist analysis of nationality and race have prevented AF3IRM's mishandling of questions that arose internally around white supremacy and membership?
- How do we combat economism while also linking up with the masses in the day-to-day struggles, whether it be in a women's organization or a labor organization?
- What does keeping politics in command mean to you?
- In light of the errors of leadership being bourgeois commandism and ultra-democracy, what does correct leadership look like?
- What's the purpose of internal and open line struggle?
- What does critiquing choice feminism beyond the sex trade look like?
- Why must all of our organizations center class struggle in our fight against all forms of exploitation and oppression?
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