But the times now are so severe, the crisis of politics so acute, that I really felt that I had to jump in and try and reach a broader audience.

I am, after all, mainly a philosophy professor. This is the first time since I was a ‘68er - an activist in the 1960s and 1970s - that I have written a piece of real agitational political writing. I’ve written it together with the Italian feminist Cinzia Arruzza, who lives in New York, and Tithi Bhattacharya, an Indian-British woman who teaches in the United States. The manifesto is a short piece of writing that’s intended to be popular and accessible rather than academic. She spoke to Rebeca Martínez of vientosur about the book, her critique of so-called “progressive neoliberalism,” and her understanding of a feminism that puts the voices of working-class and racialized women front and center. Nancy Fraser is co-author of the manifesto together with Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya. It insists that feminism does not stand as an alternative to class struggle, but rather represents a decisive front in the fight for a world free of capitalism and all forms of oppression. One of the expressions of this new wave is the popular manifesto Feminism for the 99% (Verso Books, 2019). These actions point the way to an anti-systemic feminism, going beyond the liberal, individualist variant promoted by the likes of Hillary Clinton. Recent years have seen an upsurge in the working-class women’s movement, from impressive protests against domestic violence and workplace harassment to the mass strikes marking International Women’s Day in Spain, Poland, and beyond.

Feminism for the 99 percent a manifesto