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Governance and Social Conflict in a Time of Pandemic

Cinzia Arruzza, Felice Mometti — 2020-04-22T13:36:53Z

On Monday March 29th, General Electric factory workers staged a protest against the thousands of layoffs announced by the company's management, demanding the reconversion of production and asking a simple question: “If GE trusts us to build, maintain, and test engines which go on a variety of aircraft where millions of lives are at stake, why wouldn't they trust us to build ventilators?”

- IV543 - April 2020 / Covid-19 Pandemic

The Fantasy of Normalcy: Neoliberalism, the Family, and the New Right

Cinzia Arruzza — 2019-09-30T17:11:58Z

In a comment published in New York Magazine in 2018, Andrew Sullivan warns the LGBT movement against its leftist “excesses,” which run the risk of jeopardizing the achievements of the gay rights movement and of opening the doors to a reactionary right on the rise:

- Feminism / Women, LGBT, Racism and Islamophobia

How Women Are Leading the Class Struggle

Brendan O'Connor, Cinzia Arruzza — 2019-07-25T10:51:08Z

On Wednesday 12 May, 25,000 teachers in Oregon walked off their jobs, shutting down at least 600 schools across the state as part of a campaign for smaller class sizes, more nurses and guidance counselors, and better funding for public education (paid for by taxing the rich).

- Feminism / United States (USA), Italy, Women

Long Live the Women's Committee

Cinzia Arruzza, Paula Varela — 2019-05-01T08:02:45Z

A dispatch from an embattled worker-run factory in Buenos Aires, where a militant women's committee has linked the fight in the factory to the broader feminist struggle beyond its doors.

- IV532 - May 2019 / Women, Argentina

“Feminism of the 99% is an anticapitalist alternative to neoliberal feminism”

Cinzia Arruzza — 2019-01-06T12:11:54Z

The Italian feminist Cinzia Arruzza is an associate professor of philosophy at the New School of Social Research in New York and author of the book Dangerous Liaisons: Marriages and Divorces between Marxism and Feminism. She has just finished writing a “Manifesto for a Feminism for the 99%” along with Nancy Fraser and Tithi Bhattacharya. In this interview for ctxt - Revista Contexto Josefina L. MartÃnez asked her about the relationship between capitalism and patriarchy, gender and class, in the new wave of international feminism.

- IV528 - January 2019 / Women

From Women's Strikes to a New Class Movement: The Third Feminist Wave

Cinzia Arruzza — 2018-12-08T06:32:02Z

On October 23, thousands of Glasgow cleaning workers kicked off the union demonstration for equal pay organized by Public Services International, Unison, and GMB with a minute's silence, in memory of the women workers who died before being able to see the day when their work would be finally granted the same dignity and value as the work of their male colleagues. In this act there was full awareness of a long history of great and small humiliations, of invisible, unacknowledged, or underpaid work, of countless instances of injustice and petty abuses, as well as of the enormity of the challenge faced by the women's strike. Equal pay: a reasonable, almost trivial goal, and yet so difficult to achieve, to such an extent that the World Economic Forum has calculated that – based on current trends and data – it will take at least 217 years to finally bridge the wage gap between women and men globally. (Assuming that the world will still be habitable in 217 years time…)

- IV527 - December 2018 / Women

One question: Class struggle today

2018-12-03T22:58:20Z

One Question is a monthly series in which we ask leading thinkers to give a brief answer to a single question.

This month we ask:

What does class struggle mean today?

- Features / Marxism

Argentina's Anticapitalist Feminism

2018-09-05T14:22:08Z

A bill to legalize abortion narrowly failed in the Argentinian Senate. But feminist movements have already effected a social revolution in South America. Luci Cavallero, Verónica Gago, Paula Varela, Camila Barón, and Gabriela Mitidieri were interviewed by Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya.

- IV524 - September 2018 / Women, Argentina

Energy and Roses

Cinzia Arruzza — 2017-12-31T17:38:44Z

In Mexico, an energy users' association is growing into a militant women's movement.

- IV515 - December 2017 / Women, Mexico

Feminist Organising and the Women's Strike: An Interview with Cinzia Arruzza

Cinzia Arruzza, George Souvlis — 2017-05-05T21:15:53Z

George Souvlis and Ankica Čakardić of Salvage spoke to Cinzia Arruzza, one of the organizers of the call for the International Women's Strike in the US, about why she came to be an activists, her views on the women's strike, and more broadly her political views.

- Feminism / Women, Sexual politics