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March 8: For a revolutionary international feminist strike
This year, the calls for an international feminist strike come from many quarters. And though our solidarity reaches out to all of them, our affinity lies with those who understand a feminist strike as a revolutionary strike against patriarchy, capital, … Continue reading
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Tagged anarcho-feminism, Feminism, General Strike, Voltairine de Cleyre
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A strike against/beyond borders: The march 8 feminist strike in spain
This year’s call for a global women’s strike to mark the 8th of March women’s day was expressed in protests throughout the world. But it found no greater resonance than in spain.
In solidarity: March 8 – The call for a day without women’s work
It is often forgotten that the international March 8th women’s day began with striking female factory workers. The strike, the withholding of women’s work, lies at its origins, and not the docile protests or celebrations of acquired “rights” that would … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Davis, Feminism, General Strike, LGBTQI, Silvia Federici, Strike, transfeminism
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The revolutionary strike: Vitoria, spain, 1976
The wave of strikes that swept through Vitoria, spain, in 1976, culminating in a city wide general strike on March the 3rd, were a revolutionary moment that sought to break with the controlled transition, after the dictator Francisco Franco’s death, … Continue reading
14N: Images, Resonances and Reflections
The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of exception" in which we live is the rule. We must arrive at a concept of history which corresponds to this. Then it will become clear that the task … Continue reading
And the strike was general, and the strike knew no borders …
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Tagged General Strike, insurrection, revolution, spain
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One battle follows another … scenes from the class wars
Amaya Egaña walked out upon her window sill at 9:20, on Friday, November 9th and with a step, continued … as four employees of the fourth tribunal of Barakaldo, Euskadi, arrived to execute an eviction order. The second suicide in … Continue reading
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Tagged General Strike, greece, self-management, spain
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The PIGS are to go on strike
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. George Orwell, Animal Farm The true meaning of a strike … Continue reading
Trials of/in greece
Greece lived, on the 26th of september, another one day general strike, the first faced by the new government, and one of many that has marked Greece's recent history. A question arises: of what value are one day general strikes? … Continue reading
March 8: Sorelian readings of a feminist general strike
The calls for an international feminist general strike found an echo in many countries, but again, as in 2018, nowhere more than in spain. At the height of the strike, supported by the “majority” labour unions, as well as the … Continue reading →