All The Rage: socialist feminist conference

Submitted by AWL on 20 January, 2015 - 4:35
  Feminist

A socialist feminist conference on 28 February, 11 to 17:30 at the Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, hosted by women in Workers' Liberty - everyone welcome.

A socialist feminist conference hosted by women in Workers' Liberty - everyone welcome

£10 waged, £6 low-waged and uni students, £4 unwaged and school students. Book now on eventbrite. Ticket costs go towards speaker costs, materials and providing a free creche.

Women have never enjoyed equality – in pay, politics or society. Now, to pay for capitalism's crisis, we have been pushed back further, suffering disproportionately from cuts to jobs, health and welfare, and the growing strength of the reactionary right.

But women are fighting. From migrant workers getting organised in Britain to sisters building a women's movement to fight sexual violence in India; from women in intense class struggle in Greece to workers and community activists fighting to save public services in Britain. Around the world women are building on our rage to fight back with ideas, courage and creativity.

Women in Workers' Liberty are organising this conference to celebrate and learn from women's struggles in Britain and around the world, and consider how socialist feminist ideas can make a difference.

Free creche and accommodation (get in touch to book).

There'll also be a social in the evening with feminist spoken word, theatre and folk music.

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AGENDA - sessions may swap times and more speakers will be announced soon so please check back for updates.

11am REGISTRATION

11.30-12.30 OPENING PLENARY
with - Jill Mountford (Workers' Liberty); Yemisi Ilesanmi (Nigerian socialist feminist, LGBTQ activist and blogger); Kelly Rogers (International Socialist Network activist); who took part in a socialist youth delegation to Greece during the election)

12.30-1.30 LUNCH (cheap food available)

1.30-3 SESSIONS

• Low pay? Union Busting? Zero Hours? Women Workers Fightback! with Charlotte Monro (sacked for trade union activities by Bart’s Trust), Becky Crocker (Chair of RMT Women’s Advisory Committee pc) Vicki Hayward (RMT) and others

• Feminism and Queer Politics in India with Dr Camila Bassi

• What Sort of Feminists are We? with author and trade union activist Janine Booth

• Community Fightback: Living Wage and housing campaigns with Focus E15, Sisters Uncut and Ruth Cashman (Lambeth Unison)

3-3.15 BREAK

3.15-4.45 SESSIONS

• Women Against Debt and Austerity: the women's movement and the rise of the left in Greece, including a film interview with the Rubber Glove Rebellion

• Here to Stay! Here to Fight! Defend Migrant Rights! with Vicki Morris (Nottingham Workers' Liberty), Maritza Castillo Calle (IWGB activist) and others

• Women Against Fundamentalisms
with Dr Sukhwant Dhaliwal (Women Against Fundamentalism); Gona Saed (Kurdish and Middle Eastern Women's Organisation) and Yemisi Ilesanmi (Nigerian socialist feminist, LGBTQ activist and blogger)

• When Women fought back and Won: From the Matchwomen to the Great Unrest with Jill Mountford

4.45-5.30 CLOSING PLENARY
with Becky Crocker (RMT Women) and Beth Redmond (Workers' Liberty and left candidate for President of the National Union of Students)

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More info
women@workersliberty.org
• 07883 520 852
@AllTheRage2015
womensfightback.wordpress.com
women@workersliberty.org

We welcome people of all genders and none to join us for discussion and debate. Visit our website or socialist feminist blog Women's Fightback for more discussion of our ideas on fighting for women's liberation and socialism. Workers' Liberty want an anti-capitalist feminist movement, geared to class struggle, and a labour movement and left transformed to finally take women's struggles seriously.

University College London, Cruciform Building, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT

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