Tag Archives: Women’s strike

by VALENTINA MARCONI and STEFANO VISENTIN → Italian Few days ago, the dead bodies of four young women were found in the outskirts of Mazar-e-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan. Frozan Safi, a 29-year-old activist and economics lecturer, who took part to the recent protests against Taliban rule, is among them, while the other three women have not been identified yet. The …

«Why can’t we say woman anymore?» is the title of an article by Rosie DiManno shared on Twitter by Margaret Atwood a few days ago. The sharing of the article, which was published in the Canadian newspaper «Toronto Star» (#1 and #2), provoked bitter reactions that put Atwood’s positions, together with J.K. Rowling’s ones, in the ranks of trans-exclusionary radical …

by ALICE FIGES → Italian On the evening of Saturday 13th March the UK watched as metropolitan police officers hurled and  kettled several young women to the ground. These women had gathered in vigil to mourn the death of a 33-year old woman they never met, Sarah Everard. Everard was confirmed dead that morning. Ten days earlier on March 3rd, …

di EAST → English Il network EAST (Essential Autonomous Struggles Transnational) è nato con lo scopo di connettere le diverse lotte in corso ed emergenti su un piano transnazionale, di discutere e organizzarsi a partire dalla riproduzione sociale come campo di battaglia. Dopo le prime riunioni tra attiviste e lavoratrici, per noi è ora il momento di raggiungere tutte e …

→ Italian For quite some time women have been refusing to be domesticized by patriarchy. For them, it’s not a surprise that now, in times of a global pandemic, patriarchy is trying to impose itself as a necessary supplement of capital’s domination: after all, patriarchy has been pandemic for ages. In every place in the world and from different positions, …

→ Italian Women’s movement is expanding and it is transforming. It is expanding because the global resonance of its struggle against male violence has turned on new uprisings in Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Algeria, Palestine and South-Africa. It is transforming because all over the world – from Lebanon to Bolivia, from Argentina to Italy, from Chile to Northern Syria – women …

by CAMILLA DE AMBROGGI → Italian, Spanish On March 8, 2019, for the third consecutive year, we had the opportunity to see the global power of the feminist transnational movement. This transfeminism has been able to reinvent and readapt the practice of the strike to the new political challenges that global capital poses, going beyond the lines of division that …

→ Italian We believed in the transformative power of the feminist strike from its very beginning. Nonetheless, three years later, we continue to be surprised by how fast it is spreading around the world. Women from the US to Mexico and Bangladesh are championing the fight for fair wages, that has regained strength thanks to their efforts. Demonstrations against male …

→ Italian Tens of thousands Hungarians refusing to submit to the slave law. The mass demonstrations in Serbia against the government’s violence. The greatest student revolt in Albania since the end of socialism. The gilets jaunes’s insurrection in France and the massive resistance against Brexit in Great Britain. Women’s struggle, everywhere threatening the orderly reproduction of global society. Migrants’ movement, …

di FELICE MOMETTI Dove sta ora la politica di Trump dopo il ridimensionamento di Steve Bannon e i lanci dei missili sulla Siria e della «madre di tutte le bombe»? Sta tra Bill Clinton e il kabuki giapponese. È la possibile risposta semiseria che meglio rispecchia l’attuale tragica imprevedibilità del tycoon newyorchese. A tre mesi dall’investitura di Trump, mesi decisivi …