Feminism

Paedophilia, rape and ‘grooming gangs’: Why feminism, not the far right, is the answer

I am generally against letting the far right set the terms of a debate. That’s why I think calls from the left to ‘address paedophilia’ are often disingenuous and misguided and actually coming from a similar place to the racist, socially conservative scaremongering of the right. Anyone engaging with far right ideologues on their own […]

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Anti-fascism, Feminism

Anti-Fascists took to the streets of London to block the DFLA.

Thousands of militant anti-fascists blocked and disrupted the march of the Democratic Football Lads Alliance (DFLA) in central London on Saturday, October 13th. A coalition of over 30 groups called by London Anti-Fascists (AFN) and led by Feminist Anti-Fascists brought around 1,500 people together in a well organised and disciplined bloc. The bloc set-up from

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Anti-fascism, Feminism

Report on Feminists To the Front: 13th October Anti-fascist demo

On Saturday 13th October 2018, a coalition of feminist and anti-fascist groups, including Women’s Strike Assembly and Plan C, were involved in organising a feminist bloc against the planned Democratic Football Lads Alliance (DFLA) march in London. The bloc was part of a unity demonstration, bringing together an even broader group of anti-fascist and anti-racist

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Anti-fascism, Feminism

Feminist Antifascism – October Victory, What’s Next?

On 13th October 2018, more than 2000 antifascists, led by the Women’s Strike and Feminist Anti-fa, took to the streets of central London and stopped the vastly outnumbered Democratic Football Lads Alliance (DFLA) in their path, preventing them from reaching their final meeting point at Downing Street. Further support was offered by the Stand Up

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Anti-fascism, Feminism

Statement by Argentina’s Campaign for the Right to Abortion on the Parliamentary Rejection of the VIP bill

On 8 August 2018, Argentina’s Senate rejected the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (VIP) bill that had already been approved by the lower house of parliament. The bill was the result of a long campaign and a series of mass mobilisations bringing the struggle for women’s, lesbians’, trans, and transvestites’ rights once again to the fore.

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Feminism

Red feminism is trans feminism: Towards a shared Plan C perspective

Now is not the time to remain silent on conflicts about trans rights and sex workers’ rights, which have plagued our movement for decades. As an organisation for which class struggle and feminist politics are crucial, we believe it is important for us to express solidarity with comrades both within and outside of our organisation

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Feminism

High on the Feminist Tide: Ni Una Menos, the Women’s Strike and a revolution for all

“The women’s strike made us protagonists in history.” On a heatwave evening on a busy street corner in Bethnal Green, the shouts of “Marielle vive” and “Jin, jiyan, azadi” rang out. These chants — the first commemorating Marielle Franco, a black feminist socialist organiser from the Maré favela of Rio de Janeiro who was assassinated

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Counter-power, Feminism, Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan, Social Strike

Where do we go from here? On the future of social reproduction after the Women’s Strike.

“A shorter version of this article was published previously through Red Pepper, and can be found here”. On the 8th of March, millions of women from all over the world went on strike to protest issues ranging from gendered social reproduction roles, the criminalisation of sex work, to transmisogyny along with many others. The strike

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Feminism, Social Reproduction, Strategy

Women’s Strike: Reclaiming the Future of Work

“A woman’s work is never done.” There’s something insulting about the neutered cutesification of the familiar realities of women’s lives – vast swathes of which are dedicated to the largely unpaid task of domestic or caring labour upon which all other work depends. Ask anyone facing down that mammoth, life-long work assignment and they’ll tell

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Feminism, Kurdistan, Social Strike
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