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The new, young and radical feminist movement, at the forefront of popular resistance in Greece!

Sonia Mitralia — 2021-12-14T05:52:54Z

“2021 has seen the birth in Greece of a renewal of the feminist movement, young, radical but also unitary, which already occupies the forefront of popular struggles against the Holy Alliance of neoliberal reaction and nationalist and orthodox obscurantism.”

- IV563 - December 2021 / Greece, Women

From the individual "me too" to the collective "us too" Me Too: A movement for women workers too!

Sonia Mitralia — 2019-03-30T11:58:46Z

It has been more than two years since the emergence of the Me Too movement that unveiled the enormous extent of sexual harassment in the workplace and gender-based sexual violence around the world! Not at all ephemeral, this movement does not stop surprising us. Not only does it persist and now extends to all continents, but it also evolves from a virtual phenomenon on the Internet to a real social movement of the 21st century. And above all, it becomes the banner of workers provoking victorious mobilizations of historical dimensions against two gigantic multinationals of the most merciless capitalism...

- Feminism / Women

Sexist rampage against resistance to memoranda: The case of the President of the Greek Parliament

Sonia Mitralia — 2015-09-18T16:55:40Z

In the paroxysmal crisis that Greece is going through, we are witnessing an unleashing of an extremely violent sexist campaign against women. What is more, this is happening on the main political scene in full public view. We believe that this extreme and violent sexism, that is taking epidemic dimensions, differs significantly from the common day-to-day sexism of a more peaceful recent past, before the current debt crisis.

- IV488 - September 2015 / Greece, Women

Cleaners: A handful of women show the way!

Sonia Mitralia — 2014-08-18T12:40:04Z

Following 11 months of relentless hard struggle, 595 public sector cleaners have become the embodiment, the symbol, the soul, the life itself of the most determined resistance against the politics of austerity in Greece.

- IV475 - August 2014 / Greece, Women

Women of Europe, Demonstrate Solidarity with Greek Women!

Sonia Mitralia — 2012-03-22T15:12:34Z

Interview with Sonia Mitralia, a founding member of the Initiative of Greek Women against the Debt and the Austerity Measures, as well as of the Greek Committee against the Debt.

- IV446 - March 2012 / Greece, Women

Greece at war in 2012, as Spain was in 1936 for the people of Europe!

Sonia Mitralia — 2012-03-02T10:56:35Z

This speech by Sonia Mitralia, member of the Greek Committee Against Debt and the Women's Initiative against Debt and Austerity Measures, was delivered at the meeting organised in Marseille on 17 February, by the French campaign for “a citizens' audit of the public debt”.

- IV446 - March 2012 / Greece, European Union, Debt

The urgency of an independent women's movement against debt and austerity measures

Sonia Mitralia — 2012-02-01T00:02:15Z

Why have an independent women's movement against the debt and austerity measures in Greece? Because the debt crisis and the subsequent austerity measures affect us women first, in every aspect of our lives. So if we women don't organise ourselves to resist, no one else will do it for us

- IV445 - February 2012 / Greece, Women

"A country being bled white and destroyed by those who claim to save it"

Sonia Mitralia — 2011-10-18T18:09:37Z

This contribution in the opening session of the London Conference "Europe against Austerity", organized by the Coalition of Resistance on October 1st 2011, was greeted by a standing ovation.

- IV441 - October 2011 / Greece, Women, Global Justice