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Feminism and trade unions
Strategies and mechanisms to promote women workers' participation in trade unions.
In recent years, feminist movements have become a strong and diverse transnational force that is challenging right-wing populism as well as authoritarian neoliberalism. They are coordinating the international feminist strikes on March 8 and generating other, ongoing spaces for dialogue and exchange across national borders.
This doesn’t mean making abstractions or generalizations from local differences. On the contrary, it seeks to paint a more complete picture of the interlocking systems of oppression, on which the global capitalist market is based, and to find common ground between struggles. In this way, feminist movements simultaneously act both locally and transnationally, deconstructing traditional ideas of what internationalism should look like, enacting a new form of internationalism based on creating everyday connections between situated struggles.
We accompany the construction of those transnational feminist networks that have a left, intersectional, antipatriarchal, anticapitalist and socio-ecological perspective, which are strongly rooted in the Global South. That accompaniment also includes the promotion of platforms for dialogue with more traditional actors and institutions, as well as strengthening and expanding the networks and coordination between movements, in order to build radical democratic systems that put our collective well-being at the center.
Strategies and mechanisms to promote women workers' participation in trade unions.
Feminist keep organizing in different parts of the world against and despite sexist violence.
Interview with the organization Casa Fem from Asunción/Paraguay, on organizing against a violent state
The feminist strike combines territorial practices in an international movement.
In Chile, the Feminist General Strike is an elementary part of the revolt. A new book gives an insight into a movement that wants to transform everything.
From the perspective of feminist movements from the Global South, violence is not understood as an isolated event, but rather as a global phenomenon, which is territorially anchored in the alliance between capitalism, patriarchy, and coloniality.
A day of celebration and struggle. How we make C189 more effective? How we go beyond?
The hyper-exploitation of domestic workers constitutes a fundamental pillar of the contemporary global economy. How does organizing function in this context?
An interview on economic violence, projects and dreams
On the 10th anniversary of the ILO convention on domestic work we take a critical look at the gaps between international norms, national laws, and practical implementation.