Feminist strike in France by the Coordination féministe. Alliances with social movements for a feminist revolution.

Our aim is to “(re)build a massive feminist, anti-capitalist and anti-racist movement,” pro-sex worker and trans rights. These are the terms in which the feminist activists of Coordination féministe - a network of associations, collectives and assemblies founded in France in 2020 - conceive their activism. Relying on the feminist strike, i.e., the stop of productive and reproductive labor (Gago & Cavallero, 2023 ; Kubisa & Rakowska, 2019) , for which March 8, the International Day of Women’s rights, would be the symbolic date, the activists want to transform society on an anti-capitalist and anti-patriarchal basis. To reach this objective, activists are forging alliances with the entire social movement, anti-racist and LGBTQ+ collectives, as well as internationally, to transform society around a feminist anti-capitalist viewpoint. As the main results, it shows that the feminist strike is a watchword for mobilizing around issues with an anti-capitalist viewpoint. The feminist cause needs to be seen as a global political project, hence wider coalitions with other movements, such as anti-racist, ecologist and LGBTQ+ movements, to bring about an intersectional “feminist revolution.” To this end, activists are trying to forge international alliances with feminists who also share this feminist strike objective (such as feministas transfonterizas, invitations to Swiss, Spanish and Argentine feminists to feminist assemblies). Furthermore, this work shows that the feminist strike proposal is gradually taking shape thanks to international circulation (Spanish, Argentinian and Swiss feminist strikes), the dissemination of an academic and activist corpus around theories of social reproduction (Calderaro, 2022 ; Federici, 2012 ; Ferguson, 2020) and a favorable context, a resurgence of feminist mobilizations after #Metoo, in 2017. This paper is based on my PhD work about feminist mobilizations and activist careers in France since the 2000s. We used diversified empirical data : thirty participant observations and in-depth interviews, conducted at the Coordination féministe and within activists from one of its member collectives, the feminist assembly of a Parisian suburban town.