Workers' Liberty

Donations of 2.50 unwaged, 4.00 waged will go to
women’s refuge provision for migrant women currently
denied access through the ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ legislation.

... showing...
‘Apartheid is So Gay’ by The Pinky Show
‘Underground Londoners’ A film about cleaners on the underground's organisation to fight precarity and immigration controls.
‘Boy I Am’
A look at the lives of female to male transsexuals and the responses of the queer movement
‘Estrellas de la Linea’
Documentary about Guatemala City sex workers who form a football team to highlight their struggle.
Please check the website the day before to check that there have been no last minute changes to the venue!
www.feministfightback.org.uk

An evening of making trouble, sharing ideas and planning ways for women to fight back against the crisis, hosted by Feminist Fightback.
Paying a visit to Harriet Harman, Southwark Townhall (5pm), followed by film showing (6.30pm) and discussion at Studio 96, The Galleria, Pennack Road, SE16 6PW

More: http://www.feministfightback.org.uk

A public meeting to celebrate International Women's Day

As women in countries including occupied Iraq and Afghanistan fight to defend the most basic human rights, women across the world are being hit by the economic crisis - through job losses, wage cuts, cuts in services, increased domestic violence and in many other ways. We, activists in the women's and workers' movements, are organising this meeting to celebrate International Women's Day in the way its founders meant it to be celebrated: by promoting the international struggle for women's liberation.

Speakers: Houzan Mahmoud (Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq); Maria Exall (Communication Workers' Union national executive); Feminist Fightback; Jean Lambert (Green MEP); Terri Jude (writer for the Independent); Chemilines striker (invited)

Others tbc

For more info email rebecca.galbraith@yahoo.co.uk or ring 07971 719 797

Click here for more info.

With the recent war in Gaza, the economic crisis across the globe, and attacks on abortion rights, asylum seekers, and civil liberties many activists are looking for new ideas about how to confront injustice and oppression.

We are a group of activists inspired by workers and womens solidarity movements and are a from a variety of different traditions - what we are all concerned with is thinking about which way forward for the left and for working class and feminist politics.

This is the first of a new series of meetings where we can get together and talk openly and critically about politics with each other and revitalize the threads of radical history and politics that have been part of Teesside's hidden history.

Discussions ongoing campaigns: tube cleaners' solidarity, reproductive freedoms, benefit rights....

A dayschool for student feminist activists sponsored by Feminist Fightback, Education Not for Sale Women and the Riveters (Manchester University women's group)

A big part of the recent revival in feminist discussion and activity is based among students; and hundreds of student women have attended events like the Feminist Fightback conferences. In a period when most remaining women's officer positions are more and more precarious, when abortion rights are under attack and when the economic crisis is putting question of women's liberation into sharp relief with cuts in services, pay cuts in the public sector (where women are the majority of the workforce) and a resurgence of reactionary right-wing moralism, NUS Women's Campaign should be playing a leading role in the fight on these issues - but it is not.

We are organising this one day event to develop links between feminist activists in different universities and colleges; build stronger campaigns on issues from abortion rights to free education; debate the position of women in the economic crisis; and discuss how we can reclaim the NUS Women's Campaign from its current state of inactivity.

Discussion to include:

* How to build a political, campaigning women's group
* Defending Women's Officer positions, and winning new ones
* Abortion rights and reproductive freedoms
* Women and the fight for free education
* Feminism and LGBT liberation
* Women and the economic crisis
* The future of NUS Women's Campaign

For more information, or if you have suggestions for a session etc, contact Gemma Short, NUS Women's Committee, at gemstone_88@fastmail.fm

* Feminist Fightback is a socialist feminist campaigning group.
* ENS Women is the women's wing of Education Not for Sale, the anti-capitalist student network.
* The Riveters are Manchester University's women's group.

For the Facebook group for this event, see here.

School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, London, WC1

The London Socialist Feminist Dicussion Group is open to women and men who are interested in discussing socialist and feminist ideas in an informal and welcoming forum. Our group meets monthly.

Our programme of meetings continues in November with: “Feminism and Class Politics”

The meeting will discuss issues such as: What do we mean by class?, What are the feminist critiques of class and what are the socialist responses? Why should feminists link up with class struggle campaigns? What is socialist feminism?

Download a leaflet here...

March to start promptly at 6.30pm

Followed by rally with speakers and stalls, open to all women, children and men and fully accessible at: Friends Meeting House, Main Hall, Euston Road.

http://www.reclaimthenight.org/index.html