Domestic territories, indigenous, peasant and communitarian territories, the territories of precarious, popular, migrant and unregulated work have usually remained outside of what is recognized as “work”, and therefore outside of union organization, subordinated and invisibilized by paid work of white males. We return to the feminist question “What is your strike?” which allows us to look beyond the boundaries between production and reproduction, imagining new relationships between syndicalism and community.

In recent years, the transnational feminist movement has adopted the struggle against debt as one of its causes. In different geographies we have shouted, “We want to be alive, free and without debt! Us against debt! They owe us a life! We don’t owe, we won’t pay!” We propose to survey and map the struggles against financial extractivism in different territories and seek the connections between them, from processes of urbanization in the peripheries of Buenos Aires to the fight against evictions in Madrid, including the stripping down of public services and the growth of public and private debt.

In recent years the feminist movement has put the crisis of social reproduction massively and radically on the political stage, both as a civilizational crisis and as a crisis of the patriarchal structure of society. The fascist impulse has reacted against these forces of destabilization, proposing economies of obedience to channel the crisis. In this context, feminism — as a force capable of acting at the seam between neoliberalism and fascism— also enters into dispute. We propose to map transnationally the forms this counteroffensive is taking, in order to diagnose and conceptualize the alliance between neoliberalism and conservative forces.

“Ni una menos!” was the first cry that shook the planet, activating a new feminist energy at a global scale. The politization of the patriarchal war against women and gender non-conforming people has gone hand in hand with the visibilisation of this violence’s intersectionality with other forms of economic and colonial violence. After some first attempts at escraches as a self-organized method of marking and visibilizing acts of violence, a debate has opened up over forms of feminist justice that go beyond punitivism, led by feminist groups involved in the struggle against the prison industry as well as communitarian feminisms.

Popular feminist struggles have continuously placed care work and the daily sustaining of life at the center, as a dynamic for surviving crisis but also as a practice that builds bonds and alliances, as a source of resistance against extractivist dynamics, and as a logic opposed to the logic of profit accumulation. As soon as we recognize that exploitation and the fight against it do not take place solely in the field of paid work but also, and especially, in social reproduction – the society itself – and in natural and human ecosystems, the battlefield broadens to include hitherto invisibilized spaces.

Historically women moved with our tribes, seeking rivers with water where they could plant. So what is new is not our exodus seeking places for livable lives that can be celebrated; rather the novelty is the racist and heteropatriarchal policies that illegalize our lives and make us vulnerable, condemning our bodies and our stories through many forms of violence: institutional and social, public and private, imposed by our peers. States and their laws, their internal borders and the borders they stretch into the territories from which we flee, illegalize our presence in their territories in order to impede us from organizing, from recognizing ourselves in others. We opt to interpellate all the feminisms that are willing to be touched by our lives and weave complicities with us. We want to build, together with multiple radical feminisms, specific ways of cracking the narratives that represent us and try to govern us as victims. We are fugitives, and with our movement we challenge the same ‘-isms’ that you too fight against; let us find the interstices in which our struggles connect.
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2025-07-13T19:00:35+02:00
In the spider’s web. Violence against children and the struggle of protective mothers. Prologue.

In the spider’s web. Violence against children and the struggle of protective mothers. Prologue.

In the spider’s web. Violence against children and the struggle of protective mothers. Prologue.

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I This book that you are holding in your hands is the history and present of a struggle that begins the day that your life explodes into a thousand pieces. Your children’s life has already done so, but yours implodes in the moment that you become aware of it. The day that your child reveals to you that their father touches them down there or the [...]

2025-07-14T08:21:01+02:00
The reinvention of the strike: 10 years of feminist uprising in Argentina

The reinvention of the strike: 10 years of feminist uprising in Argentina

The reinvention of the strike: 10 years of feminist uprising in Argentina

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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 [...]

2025-07-13T16:55:59+02:00
Fatima Ouassak on the power of mothers

Fatima Ouassak on the power of mothers

Fatima Ouassak on the power of mothers

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Fatima Ouassak, by Marie Rouge by Marta Malo and Verónica Gago. Translated by Anouk Devillé First published in Ojalá The family is a concept that the far right has attempted to monopolize, and the idea of the “mother” is a central part of that dispute. We’re witnessing a coordinated offensive against politicized, feminist, and anti-racist maternities with deep social roots, among which the Mothers [...]

2025-07-10T10:12:58+02:00
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Building self-defence is building self-government. Taking back the power stolen from us

Building self-defence is building self-government. Taking back the power stolen from us

Building self-defence is building self-government. Taking back the power stolen from us

Helena Silvestre (São Paulo) Sometimes I think that any Black man, like me, Just wants his own piece of land in the hills. No bling, barefoot, swimming in the stream, no hunger, picking fruit from the tree. Bro, that's what I think and that too is my dream, but in São Paulo God is a hundred- dollar bill. Racionais MC's (2002): "Vida loka, parte 2", on [...]

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Infamy is Free Media and Judicial Criminalization in Infancia Libre Case

Infamy is Free Media and Judicial Criminalization in Infancia Libre Case

Infamy is Free Media and Judicial Criminalization in Infancia Libre Case

Introduction As long as you are friendly, men protect you. The minute you stop, the battle starts. Mary Karr In the midst of the politically turbulent spring of 2019, four women were arrested. Recounted with a dramatic flair, their stories filled many minutes of news, talk show, and current affairs programming on television, the radio, and all the mainstream media for months. The subjects—four women who [...]

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Riders on the storm. Delivery Platform Workers Fight Back. (Chapter 1, second part)

Riders on the storm. Delivery Platform Workers Fight Back. (Chapter 1, second part)

Riders on the storm. Delivery Platform Workers Fight Back. (Chapter 1, second part)

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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. [...]