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National Women’s Meeting
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National Women’s Meeting

To most, last Saturday was just like any other frosty afternoon in early January. However, in the upstairs of a pub somewhere in London a group of women huddled together to talk about Marxist economics. Unusual? It was the Socialist Party’s national women’s meeting. For one weekend we traveled from far and wide to discuss […]

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By 12/12/2012 Read More →

A Review of the East Midlands Regional Women’s Meeting

I wasn’t sure what to expect as I sat in a room full of women at the Socialist Party’s East Midlands Regional Women’s meeting. It was being held in Leicester, my home branch, on the first Saturday of December and I was there more out of solidarity with my fellow branch members than any pressing […]

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By 08/11/2012 Read More →

Support the “Rape Is No Joke” campaign

Leicester Socialist Students at DMU and University of Leicester are holding a comedy night to launch this campaign, with Tim Sayers and Lydia Towsey performing. You can find Lydia’s blog here – http://secretagentartist.wordpress.com/. We are hoping for a positive and funny evening, to celebrate comedy without misogyny. You will find us in the Basement, Wellington […]

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By 08/03/2012 Read More →

International Women’s Day – Thursday 8th March

Today (8th March) is International Women’s Day. Whilst the TUC and the leaders of the labour movement try to ‘celebrate’ this day with different meaningless quirks – in Leicester they are organising a Zumba class! – it is important to remember that it’s origins are in working class women struggling for rights and better pay […]

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