Feminism For The World – Lola Olufemi Francoise Verges

This intention established by BBWG was emulated in the numerous other organisations that followed in its wake brought together by the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) in 1978, an umbrella organisation, which was established by Stella Dadzie, Gail Lewis, Olive Morris, members of the African Students Union UK as well as individuals and collectives involved in anti-racist and feminist campaigning across the UK.

The formation of the organisation occurred in tandem with the creation of a women’s caucus in The Zanu Women’s League, the women’s arm of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front in 1977. In the Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain, the authors remark on how the impetus for autonomous black women’s organising spaces in the UK were buoyed by the energy of African Independence.

Rejecting the meagre ambitions of certain sects of white liberal mainstream and socialist feminisms who failed to integrate race into their analysis of gender, certain organisations in OWAAD were concerned with the cultivation of revolutionary conditions that would lead to the destruction of the colonial nation-state. Despite their existence inside the imperial core, black and women of colour feminists during this period made conscious efforts to understand their bodies as constituted by schemas of power that extended far beyond their positions as ‘women’.

They understood their bodies as placed inside a colonial matrix and their freedom as dependent on the freedoms of other oppressed subjects – they sought the creation of a global proletarian body politic. Extending the notion that no person is free until women are free, they eschewed the greater acquisition of rights as sovereign subjects in favour of the total destruction of the restraints placed on them by social, political and economic borders.

The purposeful alignment of their movements with revolutionary struggles of independence distinguished their ambitions from unsatisfactory calls for ‘equality’ or ‘equal pay’. The importance of the programmes put forward by socialist leaders on the African continent cannot be understated. Geared towards the full participation of women in social life, these created a blueprint for the transformation of social life.

We were influenced far more, at the time, by what was happening in the liberation movements in the African continent. There were more examples of Black women who were active in revolutionary struggles in places like Angola, Mozambique, Eritrea, Zimbabwe and Guinea- Bissau… what Somara Machel had to say about women’s emancipation made a lot more sense to us than what Germaine Greer and other middle class white feminists were saying.

Lola Olufemi, Françoise Vergès, Silvia Federici, Verónica Gago, Zahra Ali, Rama Salla Dieng, Sayak Valencia and Djamila Ribeiro Translated from French and Spanish by Fionn Petch and from Portuguese by Sophie Lewis OceanofPDF.com First published as Gagner le monde by La Fabrique éditions, 2023 English edition first published 2025 by Pluto Press New Wing, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA and Pluto Press, Inc.

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Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental standards of the country of origin. Typeset by Stanford DTP Services, Northampton, England Simultaneously printed in the United Kingdom and United States of America EU GPSR Authorised Representative LOGOS EUROPE, 9 rue Nicolas Poussin, 17000, LA ROCHELLE, France Email: [email protected] OceanofPDF.com 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Contents Introduction On the Feminist Movement’s Desire for Theory Verónica Gago The Collection ‘Femmes en luttes de tous les pays’ Françoise Vergès Motherhood from a Iabá Point of View Djamila Ribeiro Communism’s Promise Lola Olufemi Truly Radical Sayak Valencia Intifada ( ) and the Feminist Imagination Zahra Ali ‘Of Course the Word is a Weapon’ Rama Salla Dieng For Maria Mies Silvia Federici OceanofPDF.com Introduction The problem of transmission is one that inevitably arises for all militant traditions.

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