Issues and campaigns: Socialist feminism
No women’s liberation without socialism, not socialism without women’s liberation
Socialist-feminist reading group: Minnie Lansbury
Venue: Effra Social, 89 Effra Road, London SW2 1DF Come to our next meeting of our monthly socialist feminist reading group, hosted by Workers’ Liberty members – open to all! We’ll be reading chapter 6 of Janine Booth’s new book … Read more
George Lansbury, Minnie Lansbury and Their Relevance to Modern Feminism
Text of the George Lansbury Memorial Lecture, given on 16 November 2016 at Queen Mary University, London. I’m working on the assumption that most of you know a fair bit about George Lansbury but rather less about his daughter-in-law … Read more
Speech notes on Socialist Feminism
Notes from the introduction to a workshop on ‘What do we mean by socialist feminism?’ at Workers’ Liberty Women’s ‘All The Rage’ event on 28 February 2015. 1. Key ideas: Gender roles, sexism, oppression are not biological or inevitable, … Read more
Poetry Performance at Solidarity with Kurdish women: All the Rage social / fundraiser
Women in Workers’ Liberty are holding a socialist feminist conference on Saturday 28 February in London, and as part of that are hosting a social in the evening at The Union Tavern in King’s Cross. There will be have spoken word … Read more
Working-class Women and Bourgeois Feminists
The third in a series of articles about the German socialist women’s movement 1890-1914 written in 2005 – originally published here. What is often seen as one issue – referred to at the time as the ‘woman question’ – actually … Read more
German socialist women’s movement 1890-1914: conclusions
The last in a series of five articles written in 2005 – originally published here: Divided loyalties Socialist feminists are continually accused of ‘divided loyalties’, challenged to declare which is our priority: class or sex. It makes a lot more … Read more
Should the Workers’ Movement Have Special Structures for Women?
The fourth in a series of articles about the German socialist women’s movement 1890-1914, written in 2005, originally published here: Laws against women’s organisation After Bismarck’s Anti-Socialist Law lapsed in 1890, laws remained which restricted women’s political activity. The 1851 … Read more
Women in the Future
The final section of the Workers’ Liberty pamphlet ‘Comrades and Sisters’ looks at what socialism can offer women, and what sort of movement we need to win liberation. Formal Equality and its Limits Britain has had the Sex Discrimination Act … Read more
Women in the Present
The second section of the Workers’ Liberty pamphlet ‘Comrades and Sisters’ looks at women’s situation today. Domestic work, (badly-)paid work, the vast gulf between working-class and ruling-class women. Women in communities, and women in the welfare state. Religious fundamentalism, the … Read more