Women strike in Latin America and beyond

Author(s): Claire Branigan, Cecilia Palmeiro

In: NACLA Report on the Americas, 2018

In-depth account of the organisation of #NiUnaMenos and the 2018 International Women’s Strike, elucidating how the strike became a decisive moment in the history of Argentina’s and Latin America’s feminist revolutions. The authors note the importance of the region as a laboratory for the imposition of high impact neoliberal economic policies. The process by which IWS has become successful is based on radicalization by mass mobilisation and inclusion and aims never to isolate sexual violence from the very complex entwinement of capitalism and machista violences (macho culture) that lies at the core of the capitalist system.

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https://nacla.org/news/2018/03/08/women-strike-latin-america-and-beyond

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Volume Two -> F. Feminist Movements and Protests -> F.5. New Global Feminist Wave, 2017 onwards -> F.5.ii. International Feminist Activism -> F.5.ii.2. Overviews of Regional and National Movements

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