• The 8-M in 2019.A large 8-M overflows the Government's attempt to capitalize on it

On March 8, 2020, International Women's Day, there will be no feminist strike at the state level because there is no unanimity between the different territories when summoning it. In this context, the state 8-M Commission will not launch a joint call or make a global appeal to women to strike, something that they did in 2018 and in 2019. The change of criteria coincides, moreover, with the arrival at the power of United We, in coalition government with the PSOE.

This year, March 8 falls on a Sunday and is therefore not a business day. Regardless, it will be called to strike in some places like Barcelona, ​​Zaragoza or Seville , while Madrid or Valencia have chosen not to do so and change their strategy. Given this disparity of criteria, the state 8-M Commission, composed of feminist assemblies throughout Spain, will support and disseminate the different calls, but may not launch a joint appeal.

Two years ago, the first 24-hour feminist strike in the history of Spain was called under the motto Without us, the world stops . That call to stop was repeated a year later, in 2019, when the 8-M Commission called to participate in a feminist labor, care, consumption and student strike.

But in 2020 there will not be such a global position around the 8-M mobilizations and each territory will decide whether or not to strike, as well as the different actions. In this way, it seeks to "decentralize the 8M" and "build more strength from below," that is, from the territorial and local assemblies rather than at the state level, as the spokeswoman of the Commission explained in statements to Europa Press 8-M from Madrid Vicky García.

In the case of Madrid, 8-M has decided to change strategy and will not call to 'stop', but to mobilize throughout the previous month with the aim of making women see 'move the world'. From the 8-M Commission in Madrid they unlink the decision not to call a strike to the fact that this year falls on a Sunday. "That is a purely cyclical issue," Garcia added.

Like Madrid, 8-M will not call to stop in other territories such as Galicia, Euskadi , Valencia and Castellón, according to García. In principle, a strike will be called during 8-M - regardless of whether it falls on a Sunday - in places like Zaragoza, Seville, Asturias or Barcelona; While there are still many places where the final decision has not been made.

From the 8M Commission in Madrid they argue that the strike was a tool that had its impact, especially in 2018, when all social agents questioned the strength of the movement. "We understand the strike not as an end or a myth, not even a demonstration of strength, but as a tool," Garcia explained.

"We have the same enemy"

As noted, the strike as a tool has served to "reconceptualize what it is to be a feminist" and "value women's work, but not productive or labor, but the weight of women in society" . "What we wanted was to show that women are assuming the task of care, that we are going through very different violence, that in the end everything is part of the same structure and we all have the same enemy and we share the same structural problem," he said. declared.

Hence, the strike calls have also served so far to "weave an alliance and a network among very diverse women" as well as "begin a process of recognition among women before a system that isolates and makes them invisible."

After the two strikes, as García has affected, it has been achieved that many women "join the feminist project", but nevertheless, it has not been possible to "transmit the demands". "We have managed to get people to name themselves feminists, go out into the streets, to see violence that was naturalized, but we have not been able to transmit all the edges of the 8-M argument," he said.

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