Trade union feminisms

"Because, in order to organize ourselves politically, we first had to hold each other up." This sentence was the seed from which this booklet slowly grew. Across 100 pages, migrant domestic workers organized around Territorio Doméstico and the Jeanneth Beltrán Observatory share their story, their demands, and the many ways they struggle and build community together. It is an inspiration for all who fight for a better world — theory [...]

by Verónica Gago First published in Ojalá   1. This year, the cycle of protests known as Ni Una Menos in Argentina will turn 10. The first march under that banner took place June 3, 2015. Then came the strikes and demonstrations: first the Women’s Strike on October 19, 2016, then came the transnational and transfeminist mobilizations, which began on March 8, 2017. The green tide—so named for the green handkerchiefs worn [...]

1. Falling into the delivery platform trap. By Nuria Soto This text will be published in two parts, this is the second part. The algorithm as boss Given my previous experience in other jobs, joining Deliveroo intrigued and attracted me. I could make my own way around the city, without a boss to watch over me, give me directions or admonish me about my work performance. To understand why that image soon [...]

1. Falling into the delivery platform trap. By Nuria Soto This text will be published in two parts, this is the first part. The arrival of delivery platforms in Spain around 2015 was a new and in fact attractive phenomenon for many of us who started working at that time.1 Glovo was officially launched in March 2015 in Barcelona, and the UK’s Deliveroo landed in Spain in November of the same year. [...]

Here you'll find an introductory selection of the five main chapters of "Bio-syndicalism from the Domestic Territories. Our Reclaims and Our Ways of Doing", written by Rafaela Pimentel Lara, Costanza Cisneros Sánchez, Amalia Caballero Richard and Ana Rojo Delgado in dialogue with Territorio Doméstico, illustrated by Ana Peñas and now translated by Liz Mason-Deese. The research and writing process of the booklet were funded by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Madrid Liaison Office and the [...]

"We—women, trans, queer folks, feminized bodies and subjects— already, in our everyday lives, make time multiply, we cook, we clean, we care, we teach, we think, we write, all at the same time. It is not only that we have multiple working days—the work outside the home (which of course is now inside of the home for many of us), the work in the home, the work in the community or the [...]

This is the introductory text to “Del campo a los cuidados. El sindicalismo feminista y antirracista que viene”, published by the La Laboratoria, with support of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Madrid and Foundation for Arts Initiatives. It was translated into English for Common Ecologies and the MovE research project, by Maggie Schmitt from Zenobia translations. Illustrations by Cynthia Veneno. Deregulation, new and old The old unionist machinery is worn out. The realities [...]