Women's rights and Feminism

By Sofie Buckland

After refusing to debate at the Feminist Fightback conference organised by socialist feminist students last year , the feminist anti-porn group Object have continued their campaign of trying to silence anti-censorship feminist voices.

This background document for the AWL 2007 AGM includes a restatement of the immediate history of the modern women’s movement and our own history.

Including: socialism and feminism, an unhappy marriage?; class, gender and other oppressions; Eva Caradonna from the International Union of Sexworkers on sexual freedom and exploitation; Selma James of 'Global Women's Strike' debates Workers' Liberty on wages for housework; an Iranian activist on Iranian women's struggle against war and theocracy; discussion on what we can learn from the women's movements of the past and how to build a socialist feminist labour movement today...

10.30am-5pm, Saturday 21 April 2007, University of East London Docklands Campus

The need to fight against sexism and for women’s liberation remains a key part of socialist politics. Socialist feminism may also be enjoying something of a revival. With this in mind we have collected together here articles from our press about socialist feminists in history.