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“The oppressed dig deep in the earth, looking for a living root, a viable shoot, a tree that may one day grow.”
- Mourid Barghouti, I was born there, I was born here
In recent years, household debt has become a major topic of public debate in Argentina like never before. In our work A Feminist Reading of Debt (2021), we called attention to women’s high rate of indebtedness, and how it is associated with the conditions of structural adjustment as part of the agreement Argentina signed with the International Monetary Fund in 2018: debt is what trickles down, reaching households. We also identified a change in why debt is taken out, increasingly going toward paying for basic goods and services for social reproduction.
Everyone seemingly knows what a strike is – it refers to the withdrawal of labor or, to speak plainly, not going to work. We can locate the strike in the labor struggles that shaped Ancient Egypt (Mark 2017). Historian Marcus Rediker (2020) traces the history of the modern strike to the eighteenth century when sailors would “strike the sail” to prevent a ship from delivering its cargo and to demand their unpaid wages, better conditions, and a life less brutal at sea.