Este enfoque dialoga con lo que Verónica Gago y Marta Malo definen como un nuevo internacionalismo feminista, no como un programa a diseñar en el futuro, sino como una dimensión ya existente de las luchas contemporáneas. Un internacionalismo que “opera por conexión y transversalidad”, que no exige abandonar el arraigo local para pensar en clave global, sino que hace cada lucha más compleja, más rica y más potente sin perder su territorialidad (Gago y Malo, 2020).

Feminists’ relations to, and roles within, particular struggles are conditioned by heterogeneous and frequently conflictual locations and histories. Feminist cartographies of struggle engage the symbolic and material processes through which the world has been forcefully divided.  Following Chandra Mohanty we call for a politics of solidarity rooted in mutual respect, decolonized theory, and anti-capitalist practices to create a truly global feminist movement.

This approach resonates with what Verónica Gago and Marta Malo describe as a new feminist internationalism, not as a program to be designed in the future, but as a dimension already present in contemporary struggles. An internationalism that “operates through connection and transversality”, that does not require abandoning local rootedness in order to think globally, but instead makes each struggle more complex, richer, and more powerful without losing its territorial grounding (Gago and Malo, 2020).

From OTRT, we understand internationalism as a way of falling back in love with the collective in a political context that constantly pushes toward fragmentation, isolation, and hyper-individualization.

In the face of a world that forces us to define ourselves by what separates us, we defend an internationalism that builds political proximity without erasing differences, but also without turning them into impassable borders. As proposed by La Internacional Feminista, this means moving beyond an idea of solidarity based on distance and replacing it with a politics of alliances that produces closeness, mutual implication, and shared responsibility.

This internationalism is also an explicit commitment against the strategies of anti-rights movements, which thrive precisely on division, the hierarchization of struggles, and competition between identities. Against this, we commit to a logic of feminist transversality, capable of connecting gender-based violence with racism, extractivism, debt, the precarization of life, and political authoritarianism, as developed throughout the different texts that make up La Internacional Feminista (Filigrana, Cavallero, Varela, Silvestre, among others).

We deeply believe that the movements that are part of the OTRT alliance, and of the feminist movement more broadly, are more powerful when they take an interest in struggles that are not “their own” in an immediate sense, recognizing in them an expansion of their own political horizon.

We believe, as Gago and Malo point out, that this kind of internationalism does not function through subordination to a larger structure, but rather as a method of connection that allows for the recognition of shared diagnoses without losing the singularity of each process. Not because they are all the same, but because they are deeply connected. Constant separation, the emphasis on the individual and on what differentiates us, has proven to be fertile ground for the advance of anti-rights movements, which organize globally while our resistances remain compartmentalized.

In this sense, the internationalism we defend may take new names, new forms, and new languages. We are not interested in fixing it as a closed label, but rather as a practice in motion. A way of building a world where everyone fits, not through homogenization, but through the capacity to weave heterogeneous struggles into a shared political grammar, capable of sustaining life in the face of neoliberalism, patriarchy, and the advance of fundamentalisms and anti-rights movements.

In the face of authoritarian projects that promise order through exclusion, we propose an internationalism that embraces complexity, builds feminist transregional alliances, and is grounded in the conviction that only together, beyond our immediate agendas, can we contest the meaning of the present and open up shared futures.

References

Gago, Verónica and Malo, Marta (2020). La Internacional Feminista. Luchas en los territorios y contra el neoliberalismo. Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños.

• Filigrana, Pastora (2020). “Las jornaleras marroquíes de la fresa. Feminismo antirracista o barbarie”, in La Internacional Feminista.
•  Cavallero, Luci (2020). “De las finanzas a los cuerpos. ¡Vivas, libres y desendeudadas nos queremos!”, in La Internacional Feminista.
•  Varela Huerta, Amarela (2020). “Apuntes para un feminismo antirracista después de las caravanas de migrantes”, in La Internacional Feminista.