Responding to intersecting forms of political violence

Drawing from my fieldwork research in Greece, I will try to analyze the ways through which the local social movements were articulated due to the loss of people that were murdered by the violence of the state, the patriarchal violence and the racist violence, trying to approach the links between the social movements through the analysis of the interecting forms of political violence. In the context of the contemporary feminist research and theory we often talk about the multiple oppressions that are shaping the experiences of the marginalised subjects and the subalterns, against a multiple axis analysis that is focusing only on a specific type of oppression. Class, gender, sexuality, race and disability are just a few of the factors that shape the lived experience of the people that were targeted by the forms of the political violence that was mentioned above. The cruel murder of Zak Kostopoulos, the rape and femicide of Eleni Topaloudi, the murder of Dimitra/Dimitris from Lesvos island and the murder of Ebuka in the police station of Omonoia in the city center of Athens. In which ways the social movements were shaped in order to defend these politics of mourning? How are linked the struggles between the left, the feminist movement and the antiracist movement? If there is a theoretical and political connection between these forms of violence, should there be a similar connection between the forms of resistance against it? Through the lens of intersecionality, I will try to present examples of the political life in contemporary Greece in order to underline the impact of structural racism, patriarchy and capitalism in the processess of the social movements that fight against social injustice.