Heather Rawling, Socialist Party women’s committee Alabama legislators have passed a bill that makes it a felony for a doctor to perform or attempt to perform an abortion. They even denied an amendment allowing exemptions for cases of rape and incest. The bill’s sponsor Terri Collins – a Republican in the Alabama House of Representatives […]
It’s a daily struggle to make ends meet for working-class people in Leicester, made worse by the cuts that the Labour council is making. Yet at a recent mayoral hustings meeting, Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby (a ‘left’ in the 1970s), had the audacity to criticise the record of Liverpool’s socialist Labour council in the 1980s […]
Women’s Lives Matter meeting 23 people attended Leicester Socialist Party’s public meeting on ‘Women’s Lives Matter’ on 16 March. Socialist Party member Heather Rawling spoke about the impact of austerity on women’s services and the double oppression that working-class women face under capitalism. Steve Score, Leicester mayoral candidate for the Socialist Party, raised how we […]
Congratulations to Women’s Lives Matter for organising a brilliant first national meeting. People from around the UK attended and brought with them a wealth of experience, ideas and proposals. Sinead Daly, CEO of Dundee and Angus Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre, opened the meeting by saying that we shouldn’t have to have this discussion. […]
Exhausted and exploited workers are doing an increasing amount of unpaid household work. The amount of unpaid domestic labour has grown every year from 2005 to 2016, according to the Office for National Statistics. It equates to about £18,932 per person on average – £1.24 trillion a year, almost half the UK economy’s annual product! […]
“The gender pay gap for full-time workers is entirely in favour of men for all occupations”. This is the first line of a report from the Office for National Statistics on the results of the governments’ gender pay gap survey, released earlier this year. Since 1970 and the passing of the Equal Pay Act into […]
On Saturday 31st March Leicester Socialist Party hosted a public meeting to discuss the lessons that could be learned today from the famous Grunwick strike which took place just over forty years ago. The introductory talk was given by Jean Thorpe. (Thanks to Ambrose Musiyiwa for filming the meeting.) The meeting was also addressed by […]
The following review was written by Tony Church A review of We Are The Lions, Mr Manager (Neil Gore, Townsend Productions) We Are The Lions, Mr Manager is a typical piece of political theatre from Townsend Productions and from the pen of Neil Gore. In usual style, it uses words and music to bring to […]
Despite the ongoing slew of allegations revealing the endemic nature of sexual harassment in Hollywood and Westminster and despite the formal denunciation of this culture by the establishment, the scandal over the Presidents Club charity dinner shows that behind closed doors the rich and powerful feel as entitled to women’s bodies as ever. Undercover journalists […]
A spirited and determined ‘Reclaim the Night’ march, organised by and for women, wound its way through the Saturday night revelry of Nottingham city centre on 18 November. The crowds were mostly supportive and even the buses and other traffic didn’t seem too bothered by their unexpected delay. The struggle against misogyny and violence against […]
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