Following our reading group on Lynne Segal's book 'Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure', this workshop aims to use the group's reflections on the book to facilitate a consciousness raising group on the politics of sex, and how this relates to all of our every day lives. This event is part of Antiuniversity Now, and is open to all genders and none antiuniversity.org https://www.facebook.com/antiuniversityofeastlondon

Feminist Fightback invites you to a day of workshops, focussing on attacks on access to abortion around the world, and what we can do to resist together. 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the legalisation of abortion in Britain, but the upsurge in right-wing populism represents a serious threat to reproductive rights in the UK and internationally. The election of Trump bodes ill for women and people of other genders who require reproductive health services in the United States, right-wing…

Feminist Fightback will be hosting a stall and workshop at the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair on a theme around 'Feminism and Bodies under Capitalism'. Sheffield Anarchist Book Fair is an annual event organised to exhibit radical book publishers and sellers and provide space for the promotion of anarchist ideas and organisations. FB Group

Last year we held a debate on how to resist anti-abortion campaigners in the context of an escalation in the aggression and activity of these groups outside of clinics and differing opinions on how to confront them within the feminist community. We also felt that this rise was linked with the rise of fascists and the right, and so we located our activism within anti-fascist direct action and the reclaiming of space. We then used the content of that debate…

Last year, we held a debate at The Anarchist Bookfair on how to resist anti-abortion campaigners in the context of an escalation in the aggression and activity of these groups outside of clinics and differing opinions on how to confront them within the feminist community. We also felt that this rise was linked with the rise of fascists and the right, and so we located our activism within anti-fascist direct action and the reclaiming of space. We then used the…

Over the last few years, the space outside many abortion clinics in England has become contested. Right-wing religious groups have been making their presence felt outside clinics, both with prayer vigils complete with hymns and religious icons, and through the deployment of specially trained ‘pavement councillors’ who make great efforts to stop women going into clinics. Feminist Fightback has been one of the groups who have taken action against this growing anti-choice presence, countering in particular the group ‘Helpers’ of…

What is the connection between day-to-day workplace organising and wider anti-capitalist struggle? What is our role as ‘revolutionaries’ in our own workplaces? What kinds of workplace struggles open up possibilities for wider and more fundamental social and political change, and what kinds simply reproduce existing hierarchies and end up containing class struggle? This discussion event is for anyone involved in, or interested in having an open debate about, our varied experiences of workplace organising. There have been a number of…

If you require childcare for this meeting please email feminist.fightback@gmail.com. As the Coalition government forces more and more mothers to return to work while their children are still very young, a growing right wing lobby argues conversely that staying at home to look after the children should be valued and supported. The feminist movement has long grappled with the problem of how to argue for women's right to combine motherhood and a career, without devaluing the crucial work of raising children. In the 1970s the Wages…