Debt, Austerity and Resources / Deuda, Austeridad y Recursos

LA POTENCIA FEMINISTA O EL DESEO DE CAMBIARLO TODO

Un libro por Verónica Gago.

“El movimiento feminista ha alcanzado en los últimos años un protagonismo de nuevo tipo. La masividad y radicalidad de esta experiencia política desbordó las calles y transformó la gramática de diversas luchas. Parte de un proceso que sigue abierto, La potencia feminista está escrita en clave de investigación militante, entre asambleas y paros, en diálogo con compañer*s de todo el mundo, desde dentro de las dinámicas organizativas. En este sentido, la huelga como concepto y como experiencia colectiva le sirve de lente para delimitar algunas problemáticas actuales del movimiento feminista y de la teoría política en general: un diagnóstico de la crisis que permite poner en conexión la violencia contra las mujeres con los regímenes globales contemporáneos de acumulación y de gobierno, con el actual patriarcado colonial de las finanzas; un replanteamiento de lo que entendemos por trabajo y consumo, por producción y reproducción, por explotación y extracción, para entender que hoy el capitalismo acumula sobre todas las formas de cooperación social, de trabajo vivo, de vitalidad social; la necesidad de componer las rebeldías, desplazando la retórica de la victimización, en el cuerpo a cuerpo que permiten las asambleas y los conflictos compartidos; una impugnación concreta, situada y a la vez parte de un nuevo transnacionalismo, al neoliberalismo y a la contraofensiva que este ha lanzado aliado con el conservadurismo. El retorno al orden que ambos propugnan, la vuelta al hogar heteronormativo que lidia de forma aislada con la escasez, la deuda y el despojo, es ya imposible. El deseo de cambiarlo todo, del que también surge este libro, se ha demostrado imparable.”

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Feminist International: How to Change Everything

A book by Verónica Gago.

“Recent years have seen massive feminist mobilisations in virtually every continent, overturning social mores and repressive legislation. As women filled the streets of Argentina and Madrid, of Italy and Poland, they’ve transformed the meaning of radical politics and the grammar of various struggles.

In this brilliant and kaleidoscopic look at the emerging feminist international, Verónica Gago uses the women’s strike as both a concept and a collective experience. At once a gripping political analysis and a theoretically charged manifesto, Feminist International draws on the author’s rich experience with radical movements to enter into ongoing debates in feminist and Marxist theory: from social reproduction and domestic work to the intertwining of financial and gender violence, as well as controversies surrounding the neo-extractivist model of development, the possibilities and limits of left populism, and the ever-vexed nexus of gender-race-class.”

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Voluntary Termination of Debt

Luci Cavallero & Verónica Gago
Translated by Liz Mason-Deese

The feminist movement in Argentina, and across Latin America, has gained force and strength in recent years. That movement can be characterized not only by its massiveness in terms of the number of people on the streets, but also for how it has opened up debates and circulated concepts and diagnoses about multiple issues. That broad, heterogeneous, and complex arch includes issues ranging from abortion to debt. However, the movement goes a step further, connecting those problems, creating subterranean links and intersections that have grown to be part of a new common vocabulary and unprecedented form of collective comprehension. Therefore, it is not only an agenda, although it is also that. The feminist movement politicizes issues that were long considered marginal or to only  concern a minority, or that had been hijacked by groups of experts. It also connects areas of the exploitation of life that appear to be disconnected or are treated as independent variables by mainstream economics.

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A Feminist Strike against Debt

By Luci Cavallero & Verónica Gago
Translated by Liz Mason-Deese

Recently, the transnational feminist movement has taken up the struggle against debt as a banner of struggle as part of the dynamics of the feminist strike. Around the world we have said, “We want ourselves alive and debt free!” (Argentina), “It is us against debt!” (Puerto Rico), “They owe us a Life!” (Chile), “We don’t owe, we won’t pay!” (Spain). It is historic: the feminist movement is politicizing, at the mass scale, the financial issue. And, it is a feminist analysis of debt that allows us to rethink economic violence in terms of its relation with sexist violence. The feminist strike, by denouncing the debt with the International Monetary Fund and private creditors and its impact on household debts, continues to make other debts appear, rendering them visible and reclaiming them. While the bondholders and investment funds apply pressure to collect on all of their investments, on the streets it becomes clear that we are the creditors.

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INTERRUPCIÓN VOLUNTARIA DE LA DEUDA

Artículo escrito por Luci Cavallero y Verónica Gago en Revista Anfibia. Mujeres, lesbianas, travestis y trans son mayoría entre quienes se endeudan para acceder a alimentos y medicamentos. Y son quienes llevan sobre sus espaldas las tareas no remuneradas en el hogar. Cuidar los precios, hacer ajustes cotidianos para estirar los ingresos, inventarse más trabajo son estrategias diarias ante la crisis.

La agenda feminista propone desendeudamiento, reconocimiento político y servicios públicos porque es hora de la reapropiación, de una interrupción legal de la deuda. Leer aquí.  

Witch-Hunting, Globalization, and Feminist Solidarity in Africa Today

by Silvia Federici

Witch-hunting did not disappear from the repertoire of the bourgeoisie with the abolition of slavery. On the contrary, the global expansion of capitalism through colonization and Christianization ensured that this persecution would be planted in the body of colonized societies, and, in time, would be carried out by the subjugated communities in their own name and against their own members. (Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch, Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation). Download here