Editorial

Abstract

We are living in unsettling times in the face of the upheaval of the democratic horizons of the present and of the destructive, violent and fallacious forms of action that characterise the ultra-right and their alliances, some of them unusual, others severely ruthless. In Argentina, the first measures indicate this: an omnipotent threat to destroy the constitutional, republican and federal foundations. Threat and complicity from the hand of an unhinged return to a nineteenth-century past whose ghostly promise dwells in the minds and accumulated coffers of those who claim to see it: the usual caste, their heirs and their economic and militaristic alliances. In this alarming framework, the organised reaction in the streets, in the work units and in the community and virtual networks did not wait two months for the new mandate, even in spite of the election results. This is what we saw and experienced in the massive scale of the two national strikes on 8 and 24 March and the university mobilisations throughout the country. We see it and live it day by day: the free market not only does not explain or solve the important things in life but, above all, it puts them seriously at risk. In this context, we present this issue, now in its biannual stage, which, although brief, condenses the creative and hopeful power of what is slowly being rewoven of writings and solidarity, collective and dissident feminist ties.