A-Infos (en) Spaine, Aragon, AM: Ours has always been resistance. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

(Article written by our comrades from the Feministas Aragón por 
Nicaragua collective, published in the newsletter 'Colectividad' number 
15 in March 2025). ---- These are painful times where global capital 
seeks to accustom us to genocide, dispossession, and violence. For years 
we have witnessed how authoritarian governments and dictatorships 
attempt to silence the people's cries with the use of excessive force. 
We know the smell of tear gas and the pain of the dead all too well; we 
are Nicaraguan feminists and have spent years denouncing crimes against 
humanity committed by the Daniel Ortega regime.

It is important to recognize that the dictators have not had it easy. 
They have faced resisting peoples, and so, like violent men, they 
respond with bullets and prison. In Chile, Colombia, Nicaragua, and now 
in Argentina, the people have not resigned themselves to the dismantling 
of the minimal rights they have achieved. However, it is clear that the 
mechanisms created by liberal democracies have failed, and we are 
experiencing a conservative wave that threatens life.

The fascists have understood this well. They know that capitalism is 
sustained by this alliance with the colonialist and patriarchal system; 
that is why, and not by chance, they have political programs that 
include the denial of trans rights, the criminalization or barriers to 
the right to abortion, deadly border policies, the rollback of labor 
rights, extractivism, and the dismantling of the welfare state. This 
predatory system is sustained by the exploitation of the majority for 
the privilege of a few; that is why they want us without papers, without 
a voice, without a safety net, and without homes. Bukele, Ortega, and 
Abascal are more alike than they would dare admit.

Black, anti-racist, and Indigenous feminists have reflected extensively 
on this fusion of systems of oppression, precisely because our lives are 
directly impacted by this violence. For a long time, feminists on the 
margins have been trying to build alternative frameworks for feminist 
thought and action, ones that forge bridges with other movements and 
create strong networks of solidarity.

It is urgent to understand that to build solid alliances between 
movements, we need to know and recognize each other, to examine our 
privileges and the violence that affects us, precisely because we are 
committed to a profound questioning of this system. Empathy must be one 
of our main tools for listening to one another. To humanize others.

There are beautiful actions being taken by collectives reorganizing and 
responding to the violence of the system. We are supporting and 
sheltering the exiles arriving in Spain from Nicaragua, El Salvador, and 
Argentina. Mothers searching for their disappeared children in Mexico 
and denouncing the complicity between the armed forces, the state, and 
drug cartels. Independent journalists who continue to publish reports of 
the rapes occurring in El Salvador and Nicaragua, even from exile.

Networks of clandestine abortions throughout Latin America supporting 
women condemned by anti-rights legislation. And now, with restrictive 
laws in the US, it is Mexican feminists who are providing abortion 
services across the border for the poorest and most vulnerable migrants 
in the US. And here in Spain, the #RegularizationNow movement has been a 
prime example of our organizational capacity and strength.

The genocide in Palestine, Trump's mass raids, and Vox's racist 
campaigns frighten, pain, and enrage us, but they will not be silenced 
or met with passivity. In many corners of the world, we continue to 
resist, to think, and to stand together. Here we are, still gathering in 
assemblies in our neighborhoods, denouncing the fact that the six from 
Zaragoza remain imprisoned under the gag law, occupying spaces, 
denouncing gender-based violence, and organizing neighborhood festivals, 
because joy has always been ours.

These are difficult times, yes, but we have never had it easy. It is 
urgent to continue building this strong, diverse, and pluralistic 
feminist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist movement that expands the 
limits of what is possible. We will not stop, because our lives depend 
on it.

Feminists of Aragon for Nicaragua

https://apoyomutuoaragon.net/nuestra-ha-sido-siempre-la-resistencia
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