Playlist of Socialist Feminist educational videos
AWL Conference Documents on Feminsim
Support trans people's rights — AWL conference policy, 2018
Feminism — AWL conference document, passed January 2020
Other Workers Liberty Publications Related to Gender, Sex and Sexuality
Gender: the right to choose (Workers' Liberty magazine)
Comrades and Sisters: Women and the Struggle for Liberation (Pamphlet)
Radical Chains: sexuality and class politics (Pamphlet)
The Case for Socialist Feminism (Pamphlet)
Women's Oppression, Feminism and the Left
Other Articles
No to the Swedish Model
The Scottish Government has launched a consultation on sex work legislation, closing on 10 December.
It follows a battle spearheaded by MSP Ash Denham, the government’s community safety minister, to introduce the criminalisation of the purchase of sex work (the “Nordic model”, or “Swedish model”, also implemented in France and Ireland). Currently in the UK, the purchase and selling of sex is legal, though various associated activities such as street work and workers operating from the same premises are not. National Ugly Mugs (an organisation that provides support and representation for workers seeking justice from dangerous clients) criticised the conflation of trafficking and sex work in Scottish MPs’ report, and highlighted how the threat of deportation for migrants creates vulnerability which in turn fuels trafficking.
Poland: "Expect a Fightback"
Andrzej Duda of the radical right Law and Justice party has been re-elected as Poland’s president, defeating the liberal conservative opposition’s candidate Rafał Trzaskowski 51%-49% in the second round.
Ana Oppenheim spoke to Sacha Ismail about the election and struggles in Poland. Ana is a Polish-born socialist who lives in the UK. She is a member of the Labour Party and the Polish left party Razem, an activist in the Labour Campaign for Free Movement and has just been elected to Momentum’s national coordinating group.
NRPF Hits Women Harder in the Pandemic
Women’s charities have raised the alarm that victims of domestic violence are being refused places at refuges because they do not speak sufficient English. Those turned away include a mother with a 14-month-old baby who was fleeing violence after being held as a slave by her ex-husband.
Migrants falling under the “No Recourse To Public Funds” rule due to being dependent on a partner’s wages or status already face further barriers in escaping domestic violence. NRPF bars many migrants from accessing a vast proportion of the social security net we all rely on in times of crisis. They are barred from Universal Credit, disability allowances, local authority homelessness support and access to mainstream refuges for victims of domestic violence. With recent job losses due to lockdown, more migrants are running up against walls of NRPF.