While there are some things in this manifesto with which we would agree, it also contains political and theoretical weaknesses that are permeating the women’s movements internationally and even influencing some Marxists. In it they claim that the movement is reinventing and changing the definition of everything: the strike, the working class, and the class struggle. Three of these feminists, authors Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser, have collaborated and written what is effectively a prospective programme for the global women’s movement, a feminist manifesto for the 99%. They proposed the organising of “transnational meetings and assemblies of the movements” to become “the emergency brake capable of stopping the capitalist train running at full speed, and hurtling all humanity and the planet we live in, toward barbarism”. Just prior to 8 March, 24 prominent women writers and activists from nine countries signed a joint declaration calling for a new stage in the feminist struggle. In a small number of countries the ‘feminist’ strike was also a feature of this day of struggle.
On International Women’s Day this year millions of women and men once again took to the streets in global protests against gender oppression. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.What force is needed to end the discrimination and division rooted in the capitalist system? Can the global women’s movements become the main agency for change? Is the organised working class now redundant? Christine Thomas reviews a new publication claiming to have the answers. From three of the organisers of the International Women's Strike US: a manifesto for when 'leaning in' is not enough. Feminism must be anti-capitalist, eco-socialist and anti-racist. It must start with those at the bottom, and fight for the world they deserve.
But don't these issues impact the vast majority of women globally? Taking as its inspiration the new wave of feminist militancy that has erupted globally, this Manifesto makes a simple but powerful case: Feminism shouldn't start - or stop - with seeing women represented at the top of society. Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, healthcare, climate change, border policing not the issues you ordinarily hear feminists talking about.
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