Paper short abstract:

The article explores the material underpinnings of ecological and feminist struggles as expressions of anti-capitalist imperatives. This political process of relationality involves efforts to forge a new internationalism that takes singular forms in concrete conflicts.

Paper long abstract:

Our shared and differentiated vulnerabilities highlight the mechanisms with which patriarchal capitalism operates not only as an economic, but ontological system of oppression. The article explores the material underpinnings of ecological and feminist struggles as expressions of anti-capitalist imperatives. As such, it delves into the implicit and explicit meanings of agency and livability within political mobilisations against femicides and initiatives against toxic pollution. Youth activists for clean air in Catford, southeast London, expose how neo-colonial notions of dehumanisation intersect with toxic infrastructures in late-stage capitalism. The recent upsurge in femicides in Italy has ignited a new wave of internationalist protest emphasising femicides as crimes of power deeply embedded in patriarchal standards. The article considers notions such as Nancy Fraser’s “boundary struggles”, aiming to bridge the gap between natural and social reproduction while addressing issues of ecology, political power and racial and sexual oppression as interconnected phenomena. This political process of relationality involves efforts to forge a new internationalism, with precarity as a common concern, but one that takes singular forms in concrete conflicts. Analysing the potential of materialistic concerns within European radical Left movements and new pathways for intersectional alliances, the article seeks to highlight an anti-capitalist imperative for transformation.