Feminist Fightback Articles
In March 2011 University lecturers went on strike against significant cuts to their pension scheme which
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Feminist Fightback are working with other parents and nursery workers in the East London borough of Tower
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In February 2010 prisoners at Yarl’s Wood immigration prison organised a hunger strike. They demanded
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[callout title=The Year of the Beaver]We’ll be showing The Year of the Beaver, a documentary about the
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Report back from workshop at ‘Women At the Cutting Edge’ regarding how public sector cuts relate
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Report back from workshop at Women At the Cutting Edge and suggestions for how to further pursue the
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On 20th October the ConDem government’s “Spending Review” will detail enormous cuts in public
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Why did you go on hunger strike? To make changes and make the public see the way we have been treated and the
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In 1970 hundreds of women gathered for a free conference at Ruskin College that would launch the Second Wave
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Five women branded as ring leaders have been moved over the last weeks from Yarl’s Wood detention
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Anti-detention campaigners today held a protest at Yarl’s Wood immigration prison in Bedfordshire in
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On Thursday 4th February, 84 women started a hunger strike in Yarl’s Wood demanding their release. On
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On Tuesday afternoon, officers working at Yarl’s Wood – an Immigration Removal Centre run
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At least fifty women have gone on hunger strike in protest against their detention and conditions at
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[callout title=‘Sex, Work, and Sex Work: Building a feminist analysis and a feminist struggle’] Sunday,
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The recent Feminist Fightback film night raised £71, all of which will go towards a fund for women with no recourse to public funds. Read more about the issues around the no recourse requirement below.
The woman who has recently arrived in the UK from Pakistan to join her husband after marriage…the domestic worker on an Overseas Domestic Visa…the tourist who came for a month but began a relationship and stayed longer……the young woman who has come to study at college in the UK…the Bulgarian woman who worked in the UK during her first six months in the UK but has now fallen ill…the niece who has come to visit family in the UK…
All these women are affected by the no recourse to public funds requirement. What this means is that they are prevented, because of their insecure immigration status, from accessing welfare benefits in the UK. These benefits include housing benefit, child benefit and income support: in a nutshell the benefits that allow someone with no income a degree of financial independence.
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8-11pm Thursday 17th December, @ VHS Video Basement, (ex)-Puss in Boots Strip Club, 11 White Horse Street,
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The follow text has been sent to the London Feminist Network, lead organisers of the 2009 London Reclaim the
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Join cleaners and their Trade Union, RMT, in protesting at the offices of LU Metronet, Templar House, 81-87
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On Wednesday, Feminist Fightback were amongst the tube cleaners and supporters (including Campaign Against
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After being unable to speak to an Immigration Officer, Juliette Umoru, Lorraine and more than 40 women
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Friday 12 June saw hundreds of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) students, staff and supporters
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Today migrants support workers were witness to an attack on the Yarl’s Wood hunger strikers. Mothers
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I’ve lived in London for two years, working as a cleaner and factory worker – usually several shifts a
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What: An evening of making trouble, sharing ideas and planning ways for women to fight back against the
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7-14 March – Week of action around the Welfare Reform Bill, called jointly by Feminist Fightback, LCAP
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On 4 April protestors took to the streets to express their compassion with the family of Ian Tomlinson who
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Talk given on behalf of Feminist Fightback for the Sex Worker Open University, 1st April 2009 So in a forum
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On Tuesday 31 April, sex workers and our allies held a successful SPEAK OUT at the Eros Fountain, Piccadilly
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Join a picket of Subway in London on 4 April in solidarity with Natalia Szymanska, a 19 year old Polish
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Twenty activists dressed as bankers stage an occupation at the Department for Work and Pensions on Monday 9
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[callout title=GENDER/ RACE/ CLASS: AN ANTI-CAPITALIST FEMINIST EVENT] Saturday 14 February 10.30am-6.30 pm,
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Having been mentioned several times in Cath Elliot’s “The Great IUSW Con”, Feminist Fightback would
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Since the Torch Lit March for Abortion Rights in March 2007 Feminist Fightback have continued to take action
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In September Jacqui Smith announced at the Labour Party Conference that from October the government will be
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Feminists chain themselves to Department of Health – protesting for Abortion Rights to Northern
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Feminist Fightback joined the Red Umbrella Bloc on the Reclaim the Night March on Saturday 22 November 2008.
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Mayor’s Question Time had to be adjourned twice this week as activists protested Boris Johnson’s
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Cleaners on the underground see the worst side of factors affecting workers across Britain at the moment –
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Hundreds of commuter’s journeys were disrupted this morning as activists from Feminist Fightback added to
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Amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — to be debated in Parliament in May — are
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Saturday 8 March – Contingent on the Million Women Rise March, alongside x-talk, the International
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The aim of the workshop was three-fold: i) an introduction to socialist feminism ii) exploring the
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Today, we march alongside women on the Million Women Rise March with solidarity and respect. We are energised
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Join the Feminist Fightback picket of the Christian Medical Foundation to defend the time limit on abortion
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Feminist Fightback Founding Conference 21st October 2006, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
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Feminist Fightback 2007, 20th October 2007, University of East London Back for a second year, the Feminist
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Feminist Fightback 2006, 21st October, School of Oriental and African Studies Founding Statement and Agenda
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Statement in support of Feminist Fightback Conference, 21st October 2006 Discrimination and exploitation at
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