Feminisms
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[Video] Your debt or your life: a feminist approach to the multidimensional crisis
16 September 2021 - by Silvia Federici, Camille Bruneau, Verónica Gago
CADTM Summer University 2021: Global Crisis, Debt Cancellation for Social Justice! Tuesday 14 September 2021 With Silvia Federici and Verónica Gago Silvia Federici, an Italian-American scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical (...) -
Women and Nature: Towards an Ecosocialist Feminism
4 May 2021 - by Jess Spear
It was hot outside that day. In the remote area of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa a young man watched as five men approached him on the porch. “Could we have a drink?” one of them asked. As they finished the water they asked if they could go (...) -
Interview with Verónica Gago and Luci Cavallero
“Debt Is A War Against Women’s Autonomy”
22 April 2021 - by Verónica Gago, Luci Cavallero, Beatriz Ortiz Martínez
On the occasion of the publication the expanded edition and English translation of A Feminist Reading of Debt, Beatriz Ortiz Martínez, from CADTM, interviewed its authors Verónica Gago and Luci Cavallero, researchers and professors in Buenos (...) -
A grim new year for debt-trapped rural women in Sri Lanka
16 April 2021 - by Meera Srinivasan
M. Champa Irangani is in no mood to celebrate ‘Avurudu’, or New Year, the biggest annual festival that Sri Lanka’s majority Sinhalese community observes mid-April, while Tamils celebrate the Tamil New Year around the same time. “The New Year will (...) -
Migrant Women Are Holding Society Together During This Pandemic
14 April 2021 - by Taroa Zuñiga Silva
The past year has seen several lockdowns as a result of the pandemic, which have had a deep impact on education, employment and the way we work globally. These factors have had an especially stark effect on women. For more than 168 million (...) -
Peasant Struggles in India, a Feminist Perspective
2 April 2021 - by Archana Prasad
Archana Prasad spoke with Capire about women’s work and lives in India and the struggles against corporate power and right-wing policies Archana Prasad is a professor at the Centre for Informal Sector & Labour Studies at the Jawaharlal (...) -
Debt: an infernal device at the heart of the feminization of migration
4 March 2021 - by Christine Vanden Daelen
Inducing everywhere in its wake a social reproduction crisis, i.e. a dispossession of the resources necessary to the reproduction of life, debt plays a central role in women’s migratory paths. It forces them to leave their homes and conditions (...) -
An eco-feminist reading of debt to think differently about auditing
4 March 2021 - by Camille Bruneau
The citizen audit of public debt is an essential tool to regain control of public finances, first, by making data on the debt process and budget allocation accessible and clear in order to determine their legitimacy, second, by drawing economic (...) -
Against the Virus of Patriarchy and Capitalism, the Vaccine of Feminism and Solidarity!
1 March 2021 - by La Via Campesina
March 8, 2021 - Working Women’s Day (Harare February 25, 2021) This March 8th 2021, organized in our diversity and together with one single voice we declare: Against the Virus of Patriarchy and Capitalism, the Vaccine of Feminism and (...) -
What do FTAs mean for African women? A critical look into the African Continental Free Trade Area
15 December 2020 - by GRAIN
The recently ratified African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) looms over Africa. An initiative of the African Union, this mega free trade deal aims to consolidate African markets, boost trade between African countries, and ultimately (...) -
Explaining gender violence in the neoliberal era
9 December 2020 - by Tithi Bhattacharya
Social reproduction as a framework Social reproduction is a key concept of Marxist political economy that shows how the “production of goods and services and the production of life are part of one integrated process.” According to Marx, human (...) -
#Nov25: Peasants in the Struggle for our Rights, against the Virus of Capital and Patriarchy!
29 October 2020 - by La Via Campesina
Call to Action – November 25th – International Day for the Elimination of all Forms of Violence against Women. Harare – October 28th, 2020: Today, November 25th – La Via Campesina calls to affirm Food Sovereignty as a concrete measure of the (...) -
Nigerian Women vs SARS: A Coalition Against Police Brutality
27 October 2020 - by Naomi Ndifon
Writer Naomi Ndifon shares why it is critical we center Nigerian women’s leadership and activism in the #ENDSARS movement. Let it be known that the Feminist Coven did that Whenever revolutions are documented, women are erased. History is (...) -
Radical Socialist Statement on Hathras Caste Atrocity and the Babri Masjid Verdict
10 October 2020 - by Radical Socialist
On the 14th of September, a 19 year old woman of the Valmiki caste,was gang-raped and brutally assaulted by four Thakur men in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh. Her spine was broken, and her tongue cut out. Days later, she died in a hospital from the (...) -
Capitalism and Patriarchy: Two Systems that Feed off Each Other
7 July 2020 - by Christine Vanden Daelen, Camille Bruneau
In other articles, we have seen that patriarchy, a social order based on the holding of power and privileges by men, is not a fatality but a socially constructed reality, so powerful that it constitutes a way of thinking deeply rooted in our (...) -
How Patriarchy and Capitalism Combine to Aggravate the Oppression of Women
28 May 2020 - by Denise Comanne
Denise Comanne (1949-2010) last worked on this paper on 27 May 2010, the day before she died. She had a fatal heart-attack just after leaving a conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of Congo’s independence. See: A vibrant (...) -
A Feminist Strike against Debt
18 May 2020 - by Verónica Gago, Luci Cavallero
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 (...) -
Argentina
Voluntary Termination of Debt
18 May 2020 - by Verónica Gago, Luci Cavallero
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 (...) -
World Bank and IMF response to debt crisis undermines women’s rights
10 April 2020 - by Iolanda Fresnillo, Verónica Serafini
Summary Debt crisis continues to unfold in the Global South IMF and World Bank responses cling to austerity and privatisation New gender-sensitive debt resolution framework needed A new debt crisis is unfolding, once again, in the Global (...) -
“Life and Blood of our country, but we only have debt!”
5 March 2020 - by Amali Wedagedara
More than 700 women from 14 districts came to Colombo on February 27 to protest against government inaction on the microfinance debt crisis. Recalling a popular election slogan during the last Presidential election they demanded that the promise (...) -
Feminisation of micro credit
20 February 2020 - by Nalini Ratnarajah
The eighth CADTM South Asia regional workshop was successfully held in Colombo (Sri Lanka) from February 18-19, 2020 with participants from Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Morocco, Belgium and France. Around forty delegates, representing (...) -
Unitedly we fight against debt and all other oppressions!
2 February 2020 - by CADTM Asia
A region that was the poster boy of neo-liberal growth and for its emerging middle class is back in news for wrong reasons. The 2018 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) by UNDP and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (...) -
The Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) on private debt and human rights
13 January 2020 - by Chiara Filoni, Eva Betavatzi, Mats Lucia Bayer
This is our contribution to the appeal made by the UN Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, Mr. Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky. Mr. (...) -
How Is The Agrarian Distress In Maharashtra Affecting Women
23 December 2019 - by Manjima Misra
The plight of farm widows remains underreported due to lack of data, dearth of special focus on the gendered dimension of agrarian distress, policy paralysis and apathy of government. Women from suicide affected agricultural households suffer on (...) -
No quick fixes to solve household debt crisis!
22 December 2019 - by Amali Wedagedara
Thanks to elections, rural debt problem has reappeared as a prominent issue in the public domain. While some candidates have vouched to cancel the rural debt, others have pledged to find solutions to rural indebtedness and agrarian crisis. Such (...)
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