Radikale Linke

Build the radical left

The Platform Radical Left is an association of different groups. Despite the different approaches that our groups and individuals have to politics, we share a radical critique of existing social and political reality and the goal of a liberated society beyond state, nation, patriarchy and capitalism.

We see ourselves as radical leftists. That means: The world can not be improved in the long term by reforms within the capitalist system. Therefore, we do not support the parliamentary party system and the hope for a socially fairer and ecologically sustainable capitalism. We must fundamentally change society and believe that people can live together collectively and according to their needs, beyond capitalism, the constraints of wage labour, rigid gender roles and the division into nations. We want to organize society collectively, globally and according to our needs.

We organize in an anti-authoritarian way, that is, we work on the dismantling of hierarchies. We strive for a society in which none stands above others and everyone has the same opportunities to participate in decision-making. We demand this for all areas of life, where people have to submit to the will of the state, the police or the boss at the moment.

We are feminist, anti-fascist, anti-racist and fight against all antisemitism. In short, we oppose all ideologies that claim to classify and devalue people on the basis of certain characteristics such as their origin, appearance or gender.

We are convinced that we can only oppose the global rise of the authoritarian right if we support each other in our political work and bundle our forces, our different focuses and ways of working.

As an association, we are open to people who share an emancipatory critique of society as it currently works and who want to think together about how we can change it. Within this process, questions will arise that are often not easy to answer and we encounter all kinds of contradictions. That’s why we want to argue with passion and look for answers together in order to find utopias for a better world that is possible.

The Yugoslav state founded after the end of World War II was an attempt to create an egalitarian and democratic society. Already in 1948, Yugoslavia broke with the Soviet model and Stalinism and oriented itself towards the goal of workers’ self-government and the concept of the death of the state.
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With this reorientation of society and economy, the Yugoslav state saw itself on the safe side when it came to the issue of gender equality: thus, the Yugoslav state thought it had already solved the “women’s question” in the mid-1950s and had achieved gender equality. However, this was not reflected in the real social conditions such as the division of labour and the occupation of leadership positions. The goals set with regard to gender equality were not achieved. A few years later, the ruling communist party realised its failure. However, this realisation remained inconsequential.
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This upcoming event will focus on the history of the socialist state of Yugoslavia with a feminist perspective and a focus on women politics of the ruling communist party.
We want to cover the beginnings of the socialist state and the feminist movements within it, the theoretical context of Yugoslav gender and labor related politics from 1945 until 1991 and also discuss the implications of the history for the feminist movements in the region today.
Therefore we invited comrades from antipolitika, an anarchist journal from the Balkans (https://antipolitika.noblogs.org/) and an ex-member of fAKTIV, a feminist collective from Zagreb, to draw possible lessons for emancipatory politics.

First step – fight back:

Build the radical left

Feminist perspectives on Yugoslavia 1945 – 1991

The event will be in English with an option for German whisper translation. Where? Club of Slovene students in Vienna at Mondscheingasse 11, 1070. When? The 3rd of June at 19:30pm.