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It arose again with the International Women's Strike on 8 March 2017, which marked a new heartbeat for the international feminist movement when it stated, "We are on strike", because "if our lives are not worth it, let's produce without us" (Lenguita, 2019). In addition to the struggle against femicidal violence -and the reproductive crisis which has been exacerbated by the pandemic- the most urgent battle for this feminist movement is the right to abortion, a chapter that has been rewritten in 2020 with the achievement of Law N. 27610 on Access to Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy. In these years, a mass feminism has been consolidated in Argentina from the diversification of organizations that have been converging in the agora of the ENMs for thirty years, introducing a remarkable strength to the agenda of reproductive and sexual rights, femicide violence and the reproductive crisis (Lenguita, 2020a). This agenda is autonomous from political parties and governments, diverse in ideological expressions and extremely active in street actions, unlike the experience of the UFA in its origins. This is because the green scarves of the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion, the new generations of militants who have definitively adopted that badge and the politicization of bodies as colourful canvases demonstrations have given them a new repertoire of collective action, increasingly vibrant and contagious. They have gained in organization, in political training and in protest resources (Lenguita, 2020c). In that sense, social networks have played a key role in this agitation, bringing together women, feminists and LGBTQ collectives who face patriarchal oppression in all its forms (Accossatto and Sendra, 2018). From the methodology of UFA of training cadres in the awareness to the organizational agora of the ENM, the current Rebellion of the Girls has given rise to other ways of communicating demands on the street, by using an appealing liturgy that is not detached from the drama of femicide violence, deaths from illegal abortion and the lives of so many victims of patriarchy in each locality. Through its powerful presence in the streets, this militancy of young feminists has become an unavoidable player on the political map of the country as never before. That strength results of a long-standing activism, which for decades has been treasuring debates and methodologies of intervention which are being recreated today in a broader way. Undoubtedly, however, the great synthesis of this scope is in the integration of young people into the feminist campaigns that have taken the streets of several cities of Argentina in a decisive way. Therefore, it is necessary to recognize in the Rebellion of the Girls an endless source of political learning for other movements which still resist to equal rights and the interpretation of the familicidal scourge. Finally, the feminist demonstrations of the last 8th of March in Argentina have been a milestone in the history of contemporary feminism and have been projected internationally. In Argentina, the two million people who have gathered in the last International Women's Strike and in each call for legal abortion and for an end to sexist violence, have amalgamated meanings for the new generation of Argentine activists. It is in this sense that the so called "green tide" has recovered the scarf that is the insignia of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, a key political movement in the democratic transition in our country and has combined it with the green colour -the distinctive colour of the National Campaign for the Right to Abortion in Argentina. Now, that color is interwoven with the violet badge of the movement at the international level. Since 2015, different manifestations of the NUM movement have taken place in Argentina and around the world against the femicides that have been happening in a chilling way. In conclusion, the Rebellion of the Girls has been the product of the long feminist struggle, giving rise to an amalgam of anti-patriarchal positions, with inclusive, diverse, and plural ideologies. VI. F inal W ords In the history of Western feminism there is a political tradition closely linked to the European Enlightenment. The conquest of the women's suffrage, after the interwar period, has determined other agendas and ways of manifesting for a women's movement that has had an international character even though it was a minority in that period. In that time of political radicalism, Latin America has endured a series of coups that set back the processes and the conquests of rights. The transition to democracy in our countries has meant a strong impulse for the participation of women and their feminist organizations, which have led to a form of awareness for new generations of activists. The Rebellion of the Girls is taken up much of the lessons learned from the struggle against State repression, from the domestic discipline of the household (Lenguita, 2020a) and from the mistakes of other political experiences that tended to limit women’s participation in their structures. The colorful and defiant manifestations of contemporary feminism express a sharp opposition to femicide genocide, using the international strike as a tool, even though syndicalism has resisted its influence for more than a century. That is why it is an underground revolution, which has taken on dimensions that were unimaginable in the past. Today, its lessons have become widespread in the Western world, giving its interpellations an insurrectional character when confronted with present-day misogyny. The paper has explored the continuities of this emergence in relation to the recovered feminist tradition, and the mass expression of that politics around the world. The intergenerational, intersectional, and international character of these ongoing feminisms, © 2022 Global Journals Volume XXII Issue IV Version I 21 ( ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2022 A 33 Rebellion of the Girls: Traces of Feminist Memory in Argentina