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Feminist syndicalism and precarity

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.

A feminist reading of debt

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.

Neoliberalism, conservative backlash and feminisms in dispute

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.

Violences and feminist justice

“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.

Care, community, commons

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.

Feminisms and migrations

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.

Feminisms and migrations
Violences and feminist justice
Neoliberalism, conservative backlash and feminisms in dispute
Feminist syndicalism and precarity
Care, community, commons
A feminist reading of debt

La Laboratoria2025-05-19T15:05:07+02:00

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

Feminist syndicalism and precarity, Notes

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. [...]

La Laboratoria2025-05-06T15:12:13+02:00

Riders on the Storm. Delivery Platform Workers Fight Back. (Chapter 1, first part)

Feminist syndicalism and precarity, Notes

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 [...]

La Laboratoria2025-04-30T15:04:12+02:00

Let’s open the gates. The fight of women labourers in Huelva for a different model of agriculture (Extract)

Notes

VIII Water and Land are Worth More than (Red) Gold¹ By Ana Pinto and Nazaret Castro By now, it has probably become clear that the prevailing agricultural model in Huelva - that of industrial and intensive red fruit farming using plastics and agrochemicals - shares more similarities with mining than with traditional agriculture. It is an extractive way of using the land. Fertility is extracted [...]

La Laboratoria2025-04-08T10:36:21+02:00

First chapter of “That Violence That Is More Than One.Feminist Movements, the Punitive State, and Other Horizons of Justice”

Publications, Violences and feminist justice

1. How to Escape the Trap? Feminist Narratives against the Media Siege and Punitivism By Valentina Huelga (Madrid) How then can one expect the state to solve the problem of violence against women, when it constantly recapitulates its own history of colonialism, racism, and war? How can we ask the state to intervene when, in fact, its armed forces have always practiced rape and battery [...]

La Laboratoria2025-03-31T11:43:08+02:00

Prologue of That Violence That Is More Than One Feminist Movements, the Punitive State, and Other Horizons of Justice

Neoliberalism, conservative backlash and feminisms in dispute, Publications, Violences and feminist justice

By way of a prologue Ilustración de Vane Julián, cedida por Pikara Magazine By La Laboratoria I A woven image can give rise to misunderstandings. From a distance, we perceive large masses of color that make up homogeneous and unified shapes. But, when we look closer and focus in, we discover that what appeared to be a continuous image is, in reality, made up [...]

La Laboratoria2023-05-01T10:43:31+02:00

Until the Patriarchy Falls and There Are No More Evictions. Chapters 3 to 6

A feminist reading of debt, Notes, Research

Here you'll find chapters 3 to 6 of "Until the Patriarchy Falls and There Are No More Evictions. Debt, Housing and Patriarchal Violence", written by Myrian Espinoza Minda and Lotta Meri Pirita Tenhunen in dialogue with PAH Vallekas' Women's Group, illustrated by Coco Guzmán 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 [...]

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