 put in place by the various commissions to drive the conference towards its final resolutions. Now a summary of the discussions from the previous day's commissions were presented during the morning session of day two and these commissions include the commission on gender struggles to end patriarchy, the commission on food sovereignty, agriculture and the defense of nature as well as the commission on urban struggles for dignified housing. Here's a progress report by the facilitators of these three commissions on the nature of the discussions in the previous commissions and the way forward. It was designed as the president of the commission on contribution and construction of socialism by the food sovereignty, the preservation of nature and agriculture. So the question that arises is what is our vision of agriculture? First of all, for socialism, food sovereignty is essential. Food sovereignty is supposed to have the choice of this product, product that is consumed, consumed by this product, to have the policy of its production, commercialization, distribution. Food sovereignty. So it can be the master of food production in its country. So it's a challenge, it's a challenge, it's a dilemma for Africa, a dilemma for humanity, because even if the resolutions are clear, we have to recover the land, we have to engage in a policy of recirculation of agriculture by preserving nature because capitalism is there to destroy nature and by using all the energy possible, all the force possible, all the intelligence possible of Africans to arrive at an agriculture that preserves nature, that nourishes the population, that preserves nature and that also serves the world population. I was in the commission for gender struggles to end patriarchy and of course a lot of things are transpired within the commission, but mainly we first had the theoretical framework to understand the women's oppression within our society and one thing that came out clearly is that patriarchy works hand in hand with capitalism, actually capitalism reinforces patriarchy so that is one thing that we had to understand and along with it that women face double oppression so within the work sphere and also the domestic and the social with the cultural aspects and the related. Now the commission went ahead to give the way forward or rather way forward towards the concrete solutions that we have to achieve and I'll just summarize them in three points. So one was on the question of organization, so organizing women and it was all agreed that we first need to mobilize and organize women within our progressive organizations so that we also have women militants within the organizations who are able to push forward the agenda fighting all these oppressive systems patriarchy, neoliberalism, capitalism, neocolonialism and all of them and the other question which also came up is starting within our very same organizations to make sure that there's equality of genders in all the ranks of the progressive organizations that we're working on that women within the organization should start to feel that they are actually in the emancipated spaces because their rights are all taken on board different from how they would feel in some other organizations and the last one if not the least was now to make sure that we take this message outside in the mobilizing and organizing women in the grassroots and I want to stress on this one one of the points which was made by by comrade sumali to try to explain and understand feminism from our own perspective from the perspective of the working class women that we're going to to organize down there and we should follow women where they are and organize from their working spaces and that is the only way we'll be able well first to win their hearts as women but also win the whole working class people in a commission that dealt with the question of and then struggles for dignified housing the different experiences that were brought by comrades from different countries we were common around one issue that indeed the issue of housing is critical but we are going to build the house if you don't have a plot of land proper plot of land so as we're continuing to analyze we immediately agree that there needs to be program beyond the statements that we say and part of those programs we emphasize the need of political education amongst our masses the immediate need for the masses to realize the importance of land that land is a driver of all struggles land will address many issues that remain undissolved but we immediately also say that we need to send up working class co-politics that are going to address affordable housing I mean if you talk we are talking about urbanization masses moving out of rural areas and so on and so forth in pursuit of criminal pastures they look for housing and that housing is not provided for by the state because the state is pursuing neoliberalism austerity measures we also had comrades from Abbas-Shalibah-Semitron during our commission whom this for them is a sensitive matter that they have lost comrades and amongst both the program side we must begin to defend ourselves against the onslaught of the state and the in the capitalist now delegates and participants then join the three commissions for the two of the conference to contribute their thoughts towards preferring socialist solutions for the many challenges facing the thematic areas for the day which include the access to quality education the access to quality healthcare and employment the commissions were on building the future of the youth through quality education for immigration the demand for health science and technology as a matter of dignity and on organizing the workers employed unemployed organized and unorganized the final reports from these commissions from day two will be presented on day three of the conference for Pan-African television and people's dispatch this is a Maki Zalatifat report