The New Feminist Internationale

Abstract

A new era of the feminist movement has already been established. We areliving in it. The organization of the international strikes of women, lesbians,trans persons, and travestis since 2017 has marked a turning point in thescale of the movement and in the conceptualization and constellation ofstruggles that consider themselves feminist. It is this triple dimension of themovement (multiplicity of struggles, geographic scale, and common gram-mar) that has produced, with great political efficacy, concrete analyses andpractices that oppose the predatory modes of the current phase of patriarchaland colonial capitalism.The strike has effectively convened a series of conflicts and nurturedrevolts that have made it into a long-term political process. The most salientfeature of this feminist cycle is its combination of massive size and radical-ity. These are two characteristics that do not generally occur simultaneously,but the feminist movement has managed to bring them together. That forceis also what explains the virulent military, economic, and religious funda-mentalist counter-offensive that has emerged in response to feminism?s con-crete ability to simultaneously challenge a sexual division of labor made evenharsher by precarity, the mandates of gender that structure it, and the reac-tionary responses to labor and existential insecurity.