NorthAmerican Rationalist Society Ontario –Brampton
put up a great show to mark International Women’s Day at Brampton Soccer center;
more than fifty people attended the event which lasted more than three hours.
The key –note presentation was delivered by Surinder Shokar “How
did women become second class citizen?”
Ms Surinder gave inch by inch
details of human history and explained how the status of women was relegated to
its present conditions. She explained the
phenomenon that at the start of human civilization, inhabitant of the planet
was living in the collective mode of production and lived mainly on hunting. Women
had the equal participation in human civilization and were an equally
responsible productive force. There was no discrimination in that society,
later greed for the private property and advent of state marginalized the
status of women in the society. During the feudal state, women were treated
like a property and completely deprived by her social, economic and political
rights.
Industrial revolution in 1800s
also used women force as a low paid workers and it was women who suffered most
in newly industrialized nations with no rights, low wages, more work and extreme
miseries. Present capitalist model has made status of women even more pathetic
where her status is reduced to a mere commodity. Its men who decides who a
woman should look? What should be the size of her body parts? What she should wear
and what kind of fashion she must sport? Advertising industry has shamelessly done
a great harm to the dignity of average women folk by branding her just a sexual
object.
Surinder Shokar provided panacea
for the complete liberation of women by advising a socialist mode of production.
She said the problem of women folks cannot be solved without replacing the capitalist
mode of production to socialist one. Drive for profit and greed is the real
enemy of women liberation. She said; India, Bangladesh, China are the countries
which are in the same phase of human history what European countries were
during 1800s. Finance capital is exploiting their cheap labor for the sake of
their profit. The present Capitalist system is consciously working in
collaboration of its institutions such as Church, parliament, bankers to
sabotage the unity and solidarity of working class.
Speaking on the occasion,
rationalist leader Dr Baljinder Sekhon gave the detailed accounts of Canadian
history when there was a time that even University of Toronto was not open for
women to study medicine. A long struggle of working class has to wage to earn
the voting right for women in USA and Canada, and people used to laugh at those
women who went to cast their votes. He called upon the community to develop
moral and social responsibility to empower women in their household affairs.
Communist leader Harinder Hundal
welcomed the attendants in the event and emphasized for raising the political
awareness of the masses. Discrimination against the rights of women folks in South
Asian community is due to lack of political awareness. He said, only political
aware person can understand the motives and meaning of the government policies.
He came down heavily on the Harper Government who is bent upon to bring a
draconian law C-51 to curb political rights of democratic, human rightist, environment
activist in the name to countering home grown terrorism. A resolution was
passed to oppose C-51 bill by voice vote and people showed their determination
to put up a aggressive opposition to this notorious bill since they were
reminded Punjab’s experience when Indian state repressed common people in the
name of counter terrorism.
Speaking on this occasion, Shamshad
Elahee Shams said that women rights were plagued in the human history the
moment concept of private property raised its ugly head. Private property led
the way to feudal system then slavery and finally capitalist industrial revolution
enslaved women folks. He said, women liberation or emancipation cannot be
implemented unless we remove the cancer of private property from our society.
Women liberation can never be disassociated from the liberation of working class
therefore it is mandatory to accelerate class struggle and win the battle
against capitalist system in order to bring complete justice to the society. He
said, Brampton is only 750 km far from New York, a historic city which is the
birth place of International Women Day since 1909. He said; never mind that you
are only 50 people sitting here while the population of Brampton is 433,000.
Quality will always remain short supply in the society, but its Quality which
paves the way for big changes in the history of human society.
Shams attacked so called great
Indian culture which is anti-women to the core and pleaded to refrain from
complex that they belong to the so-called Guru Nation of the world. Indians are
the biggest hypocrites stock on the face of planet who nurtures feudal culture.
We are most infamous nation for killing female child in the womb. We are most
infamous for rapes in the world. We have a double standard for male and female
child. Boy can bring his wife from other clan, caste or religion but if their daughters
do the same thing, they will go to the extent to kill her. We have imported
honor killings in Canada from South Asia which is ridiculous. It is high time
to allow daughters to choose their own love. A society which does not allow
their daughters to live according to their choice is nothing but tribal.
Young famous revolutionary singer
Baljit Singh sang enchanting songs in Punjabi, Samar Kaur enthralled with her beautiful
poems and Sumeet Sahota shared her experiences as a trainee nurse with a focus on
Sikh community practicing Indian culture to repress their household women.
Ajmer Singh Randhawa, Harjeet Singh Bedi also entertained the people with their
meaningful poetry.
Rationalist Baldev Rehpa, Amrit
Dhillon, Surjit Sahota, Navkiran Singh Sidhu, Balraj Shokar, Sukhdev Singh, Comrade
Balwant Singh were amongst renowned personalities who participated the event.
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