Friday, 19 April 2013 10:32
Katherine Connelly explains why attempts to claim Thatcher as the heir to the suffragettes are a gross distortion of history and an attack on our struggles today
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The gang rape of a young woman – who later died from her injuries – led to widespread protests across India. Lindsey German puts the assault in context
Feminist author and socialist Katherine Connelly on why liberation campaigners must oppose an NUS motion to bar Tony Benn from student platforms
Activists calling for Sharia countries to be banned from the Olympics are doing internationalist feminism a disservice, argues Elly Badcock
Domestic violence affects one in four women during their lifetime. Police in the UK receive a domestic assistance call every sixty seconds. Two women are killed every week by their violent partners.
The fight for women’s liberation from capitalism is no joke - Elly Badcock explains why.
On International Women's Day, Tansy Hoskins suggests some great radical books which have inspired movements for social change.
If anyone ever bought the idea that sexual liberation can come down the barrel of a gun, then the Guardian’s harrowing documentation of the sexual abuse of US soldiers by their colleagues destroys the notion entirely.
While women's lives are made daily hell by street harassment, Elly Badcock explores why privileged female writers defend flagrant sexism.
German Vogue recently published a fashion spread playing on the idea that room attendants are available sex objects. This is particularly contemptible in the context of the Strauss-Kahn case, and can only be taken as a statement of support.
The rapidly growing phenomenon tries to counter the widespread myth that by wearing a miniskirt women jeopardise their own safety.
Nadine Dorries, Tory MP for Mid Bedfordshire, has tabled a motion calling for the introduction of abstinence-based sex education for girls aged 13-16. The bill is a step towards reducing abortion rights for women, and must be rejected.
This year's International Women's Day (8 March) sees a world in turmoil once again. Whether organising against cuts in the UK or dying for their freedom across Africa, as usual women are fighting back alongside men.
Made in Dagenham, the film about a strike by women machinists has highlighted the struggle for equal pay. But with women today earning nearly a fifth less than men the battle begun in Dagenham in 1968 is still very far from being won.
If the Coalition government are able to inflict their swingeing cuts it will devastate the lives of millions of women.
Penny Red argues that for feminists, arguments about sex work have become an ugly, obstructive shibboleth and that we should target the pimps, the abusers and the superstructure of misogynist free-market capitalism.
Romantic novels continue to be extremely popular - making it important to avoid any dismissive analysis of romance readers as passive recipients of sexist ideology whilst maintaining a critical approach to the genre.
There have been very great changes in women’s lives in the past few decades - but there is still much to fight for. Here is my manifesto for a 21st century feminism.
31 May - 1 June 2013
an international festival
In the parks, halls and public spaces around Kings Cross
With:
David Harvey, Tariq Ali, Tony Benn, Owen Jones, Nina Power, Sanum Ghafoor, Andrew Murray, Laurie Penny, Lindsey German, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Paul Le Blanc, Terry Eagleton, Paul Gilroy and more...
Saturday 22 June 2013
9:30am – 5pm
Central Hall Westminster
Events
Books
How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women
By Lindsey German
A Marxist History of the World
From Neanderthals to Neoliberals
By Neil Faulkner
The People V Tony Blair
Politics, the Media and the Anti-War Movement
By Chris Nineham
Timelines
A Political History of the Modern World
By John Rees
A People's History of London
By Lindsey German and John Rees
Counterfire Books
The People Demand: A short history of the Arab revolutions
By John Rees and Joseph Daher
Strategy and tactics: how the left can organise to transform society
By John Rees
Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of Georg Lukacs
By Chris Nineham
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