March 8, 2007
The Commanders and Guerrilla base of the FARC-EP, salute all women
with immense revolutionary affection on the commemoration of the
historical 8th of March, International Women's Day, won with the
organized strike of the textile workers of Chicago, in the United
States.
From that time they demonstrated to the world that the only
alternative to conquer the liberties and the social, economic and
political rights is by means of the mobilization and the struggles of
the workers, in alliance with the other sectors exploited and
oppressed by the bosses of the governing capitalist Regime.
In Colombia since the struggle for independence from Spanish
subjugation to these days, the women shine for being so daring, for
their heroism and loyalty fighting in combat side by side the men for
the libertarian ideals of all the people. Let us just remember
Policarpa Salabarrieta "La Pola", Manuelita Sáenz, the woman Liberator
of the Liberator, to Manuela Beltrán, La Gaitana, Maria Cano and
later the brave revolutionary guerrilleras of the FARC who from
Marquetalia were represented in Myriam Narváez and Judih Grisales,
signers of the Agrarian Program of the Guerrillas, on the 20th of July
of 1964. Hundreds of women of the people follow these heroines of the
independence of Colombia who side by side the men contribute with
their sacrifice and their blood to the cause of defeating the unjust
current Regime to initiate the construction of Socialism.
In the FARC women as well as men join the rows since the ages of 15 to
30 years of age, they do this for an indefinite time, voluntarily,
without yielding pay and we receive political, military and cultural
training on equal bases. The women also fulfill functions of command
and of representation of the Organization according to their
capacities and who ever discriminates against them will be sanctioned
according to the internal norms that govern us.
In this day, we paid posthumous tribute to the guerrilla women fallen
in combat, to the social, popular and political fighters who
sacrificed their lives from the first independence to these days, as
we are raised up in arms for the second and definitive independence.
Greetings in solidarity with Comrade Sonia, extradited by the gangster
paramilitary government of Alvaro Uribe to the United States of North
America, greetings as well to all the guerrilla prisoners of war in
the jails of the Colombian State. Affectionate greetings to the
hundreds of guerrilla, militia members, those women who form part of
the Clandestine Communist Party, the Bolivarian Movement for the New
Colombia, to the masses of collaborating women, friends and specially
to the dear mothers of women and men guerrilla members of our glorious
army.
Sincerely,
FARC-EP, International Commission, Raúl Reyes
Colombian Mountains, March of 2007
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