Women

Lucas Arms, 245a Gray's Inn Road, Kings Cross, London
from 7.30
More info: socialist.feminist@gmail.com
or phone 07815 490 837

London Socialist Feminist Reading Group: discussion about the life, work and politics of Alexandra Kollontai.
Lucas Arms, 245A Grays Inn Road, Kings Cross
All feminists welcome

... Meets monthly and continues its programme on Friday 24 August with a
discussion on "What is Islamic Feminism?"

Details: 7.30-9.15 pm. Marchmont Community Centre, 62 Marchmont Street,
London WC1.
Refreshments provided. Organised by Workers' Liberty.
More information, and reading materials for this subject: volsunga@gmail.com

Back for a second year, the Feminist Fightback activist conference will take place on Saturday 20th October 2007 at the University of East London. Fightback is organised by a group of socialist feminists from the Education Not for Sale network. It aims to bring together feminists from a wide range of perspectives to debate ideas and develop practical strategies for fighting sexism and exploitation.

The London Socialist Feminist Discussion Group meets monthly. Everyone is
welcome to attend the debates and discussions, which are very informal.

Our planned programme of discussions includes such things as Sex Work, Women
in the Russian Revolution, Emma Goldman, What will Socialism Be Like, Engels
Revisted.

We continue our programme on Friday 27 July with a discussion on Equal Pay

In 1968, a group of female sewing machinists went on strike against a
sex-biased grading structure. The 1970 Equal Pay Act followed shortly after.

Next discussion will be on Eleanor Marx — women in the 19th century socialist
movement. The reading for this can be found at
www.workersliberty.org/node/8657

The group is going to be meeting on the last Friday in the month and this
next meeting will be on Friday 22 June from 7.30pm until 9pm at Friends
Meeting House, Euston Road (opposite Euston), London.

Future discussions are planned on Equal Pay, Emma Goldman, Women in the
Russian Revolution, Sex work, Sex differences, Engels revisited, religious
fundamentalisms, and "unwaged work".
Contact cathyn56 (at) hotmail.com

Our first meeting will at 7.30pm, on Friday 25th May, in the upstairs room of the Plough, on Museum Street, WC1A 1LH (nearest tube: Tottenham Court Road).

We will be discussing the lessons that can be learnt from the German socialist women's movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The reading can be found at
http://www.workersliberty.org/taxonomy/term/456 (the summarised
version is entitled "German socialism and the 'women question'").

Future discussions will be on a wide variety of topics.

Nadje Al-Ali anthropologist, women's rights activist and author of 'Iraqi Women'

in conversation with

Natasha Walter
Author and Columnist, The Guardian

Time/Date: 5:30-8pm, Monday 14 May 2007

Venue: SOAS, Khalili Theatre
(nearest tube Russell Square)

Introduction by Deniz Kandiyoti, SOAS

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

Immediately next to Cyprus DLR or ten minutes walk from Stratford tube and rail

Waged £5, unwaged £2.50, including a pack of materials on socialist feminist ideas. There will be a creche provided.
Organised by Workers' Liberty
For more information: 07815 490 837

Solidarity with Iraqi women: fundraising social for the Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq

6pm-late
Saturday 21 April
The Ivy House, 8-10 Southampton Row, London WCIB 4AE
(very near Holborn tube)

Come and listen to live music, drink, eat and hear about the Iraqi women's and workers' movements and what we can do to support them.

Waged £5, unwaged £3.

OWFI - www.equalityiniraq.com