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June Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »May Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »April Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: tbc
Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: tbc Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly film screening. Exhibiting anger/ joy during the film at oppressive behaviour/ high points of struggle very much encouraged. We always have a discussion after the film, and drinks and snacks are available. Doors open at 7pm. Suggested donation £2 unwaged/ £3 low waged/ £5 higher waged.
Find out more »March Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: A story of police violence in France and J’veux du soleil
This month, in view of the ongoing events in France, we will be showing two documentaries about the yellow vests in France. The first is the short "A story of police violence in France" by Ross Domoney which tells the story of three lives affected by police violence in France during the Gilets Jaunes protests. The so-called “sub-lethal” riot control weapons used by French police against protesters have caused dozens of mutilations and serious injuries since the beginning of the…
Find out more »February Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »January Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »December Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »Feminist Fightback & Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants Film Club Presents: PRIDE
Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: PRIDE PRIDE is inspired by an extraordinary true story. It's the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mine workers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers' families. The film will be introduced by a member of Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants. Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly film screening. Exhibiting anger/ joy during the film…
Find out more »November Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »October Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »Training on migrant healthcare charging
Training for people interested in getting involved with Feminist Fightback’s campaign against migrant healthcare charges. Please email feminist.fightback@gmail.com if you would like to come along.
Find out more »Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: Love and Revolution
Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: Love and Revolution Two months since the election of the conservative government in Greece, and repression of worker’s rights and autonomous initiatives has begun. Police have invaded the neighbourhood of Exarcheia in Athens and have started shutting down the migrant solidarity squats, sending migrants to detention centres and arresting squatters. In solidarity with comrades in Greece, for our September film club we'll be screening Yannis Youlountas' 2018 documentary Love and Revolution, a testimony of radical…
Find out more »September Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »Common Ground Festival
The Common House is co-hosting a street festival on Middleton Green, together with Teesdale & Hollybush TRA and Phytology in the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. We are going to bring what happens inside community spaces outside, with stalls so that community and activist groups can tell people about themselves, as well as food, music and games, so that we can meet each other and build community in the local area. The festival will take place on and around Middleton Green…
Find out more »Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: Persepolis
Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: Persepolis Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly film screening. Exhibiting anger/ joy during the film at oppressive behaviour/ high points of struggle very much encouraged. We always have a discussion after the film, and drinks and snacks are available. Based on Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel about her life in pre and post-revolutionary Iran and then in Europe, the film traces Satrapi's growth from child to rebellious, punk-loving teenager in Iran. In the background are the…
Find out more »July Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »June Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: Burning an Illusion (1981)
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly film screening. Exhibiting anger/ joy during the film at oppressive behaviour/ high points of struggle very much encouraged. We always have a discussion after the film, and drinks and snacks are available. We will be showing the pioneering first feature from Menelik Shabazz, one of the most significant artists and activists in contemporary British film. Burning an Illusion, a film about transformation and identity, marked a coming of age for black British cinema. It…
Find out more »May Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »April Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »Positive?
An event and resources that you might be interested in - message from Brook. Brook London and South East is excited to offer a free training on HIV and Positive? (a multi-media interactive learning resource) Date: 26th June 2013 Venue: 50 Featherstone Street London EC1Y 8RT Time: 12pm for Networking Lunch and Training 1-4pm Places are limited so to ensure your booking and enough lunch please follow this link: http://www.doodle.com/g62t5ubw8tga6i29 by 21st June at the latest. Positive? Was launched by…
Find out more »Feminist Fightback Film Club & London IWW Present: Year of the Beaver
In the month of International Women's Day, Feminist Fightback and London IWW are showing Year of the Beaver, a film about the Grunwick Strike of 1976. The strike at the Grunwick photographic processing plant, with a workforce predominated by Asian women, lasted for 2 years. Year of the Beaver is focused on the experiences of the workers who were involved in the dispute, and explores the roles played by the media, police and even union leadership in sabotaging and breaking…
Find out more »March Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »February Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: Divines
Join us for a screening of Houda Benyamina's brilliant debut feature, dubbed a ‘feminist Scarface’, following a teenage girl from a Paris banlieu’s devastating attempts to overcome poverty and her close friendship with her best friend. We will have a discussion after the film, and drinks and snacks are available. Doors open at 7pm. Suggested donation £2 unwaged/ £3 low waged/ £5 higher waged.
Find out more »January Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »December Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: One Sings, the Other Doesn’t
Join us for a special screening of Agnes Varda’s 1976 feminist musical that follows the lives of two women and the collective struggle to legalise contraception and abortion. A discussion will follow the screening. Suggested donations £2/3/5 un/low/higher waged. Drinks and snacks available.
Find out more »November Organising Meeting
Join Feminist Fightback for our monthly organising meeting. We’re an anti-capitalist feminist collective and we meet the third Sunday of every month at the Common House. For the first hour, we have a political discussion, with the second half of the meeting for organising actions and events. Meetings are open to all women, including trans women and people of diverse gender identities in need of feminist solidarity (our wider activities are open to people of all genders). If you would…
Find out more »October Organising Meeting
October Organising Meeting Open to all self defining women. New people are welcome to come along to find out more about us. We are very happy to support childcare needs – get in touch in advance.
Find out more »Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: 120 Beats Per Minute
Join us for a special screening of Robin Campillo's 120 Beats Per Minute (2017), which reimagines the lives of AIDS activists in Paris in the 1990s. The film centres on the direct action group ACT UP Paris, and on the love and struggle of its members. We are very excited that a speaker from ACT UP London will introduce the film. A discussion will follow the screening. Suggested donations £2/3/5 un/low/higher waged. Drinks and snacks available. Notes: Death and dying…
Find out more »Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: Girlhood
This month's Feminist Fightback film is a french coming of age drama that discusses and challenges conceptions of race, gender and class.
Find out more »Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: Criminal Queers
"Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls." Criminal Queers is a fictional film by Chris Vargas and Eric E. Stanley which explores how trans and queers struggles intersect with prisoner struggles and with joy and rage pictures "how to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined" See trailer here: https://vimeo.com/127429150 Feminist Fightback is screening this film in partnership with London Action For Trans Health, who…
Find out more »Feminist Fightback Filmclub Presents: Glasgow Girls
In solidarity with and support of the Stansted Defendants, Feminist Fightback will be screening Glasgow Girls for March film club. Glasgow Girls is the true story of young migrant women who, when their friend faced detention and deportation, mobilised their community to fight the Home Office and win. Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g94qPAwP84 Doors open 7.30pm Tickets: £5 waged, £2.50 low waged, £0 unwaged #EndDeportations
Find out more »Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: We Are the Best!
Join us for the first Feminist Fightback Film Club of 2018 where we'll be screening We Are The Best! (2013), a joyful story of three teenage girls in 1980s suburban Stockholm who form a punk bank against the odds. The film was made by Lukas Moodysson, based on Coco Moodysson's autobiographical graphic novel. As ever, there will be an informal post-screening discussion after the film, and snacks and drinks available. All welcome. Suggested donations £2/3/5 un/low/higher waged taken on the…
Find out more »Feminist Fightback is 10: Birthday Party
This year marks a decade since the Feminist Fightback collective was formed. We'd love you to come and celebrate our 10th birthday with us. Expect birthday cake, plenty of celebratory punch and music from the amazing Girl Germs. Bring revolutionary spirit and your dancing shoes. Sisters and comrades of all genders very welcome. (You need to register via EventBrite - but it is of course free). ********************************************************************************* Safe space statement: There will be zero tolerance of harassment, unwanted touching, stalking…
Find out more »Feminist Fightback Film Club presents: Turup
Turup (Checkmate) takes as its backdrop the roadside chess matches of working-class communities in Chakki Chouraha, a neighbourhood in the central Indian city of Bhopal. Whilst it’s men who dominate the chess games, the film tells the intertwined stories of three women: a domestic worker named Monika; Neelima, a former journalist struggling with married life; and Lata, young and in love. Turup was made by the Bhopal-based Ektara collective: an autonomous grassroots cinema group composed primarily of women. The process…
Find out more »Feminist Fightback Halloween Film Screening: Teeth
Feminist Fightback present our Halloween screening of Teeth! Dawn, a teenager who has vowed to remain a virgin until marriage, discovers that her body hides a secret weapon which allows her to exact bloody revenge on men who sexually assault her. Please note, the film contains multiple scenes of sexual assault/rape. You are welcome to come and go from the screening if you need.
Find out more »Feminist Fightback film screening: I Flew, You Stayed
For this month's film club, we will be screening the documentary 'I Flew, You Stayed', a personal documentary by a Turkish Kurdish film maker who will be introducing the film. For those who would like to, we will also be hosting our usual political discussion on the films afterwards on Rojava, the oppression of the Kurdish people in Turkey, and also the situation in Syria and Iraq. Doors open 7.30pm Tickets: £5.00 waged, £2.50 unwaged Drinks & Snacks
Find out more »Antiuniversity Now: Reflections on Straight Sex
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
Find out more »Feminist FIghtback Film Club Presents: Waging a Living in London
Join Feminist Fightback and United Voices of the World union, whose members have been on strike at LSE. We're screening Waging a Living in London, a film about when UVW members won wage increases for cleaners at the Barbican. We'll also have one of the current LSE strikers talking about the current action, and some short films from the LSE strike, followed by discussion.
Find out more »March to defend reproductive rights, Birmingham 20 May
On Saturday 20 May there will be a big anti-abortion jamboree in Birmingham. Feminist Fightback along with other feminist activist groups in London are mobilising as many people as possible to travel there to join the a counter demonstration - with creative actions and slogans we will be arguing for reproductive rights! Come and join us - we have cheap train tickets from London (meeting at Euston before 9am). Tickets are £20 waged and £10 low-waged/concessions. For more details about…
Find out more »Feminist Fightback Presents: Ovarian Psycos Film Screening
Ovarian Psycos is about a new generation of fierce, unapologetic and feminist women of color from the Eastside of Los Angeles who confront injustice, build community, and redefine identity through a raucous, irreverently named bicycle crew: The Ovarian Psycos Cycle Brigade. Through the personal stories of the crew’s rabble-rousing founder, Xela de la X, activist, poet M.C., and single mother; street artist and original Ovarian Psyco, Andi Xoch, and a bright-eyed young woman from the neighborhood, Evelyn (Evie), the film…
Find out more »Feminist Fightback Film Screening: Yo Decido: El Tren De La Lib
Feminist Fightback present 'Yo Decido: El Tren De La Liberta' (I Decide: The Train of Freedom). In 2013. the Spanish government proposed a radically restrictive change to abortion legislation. Huge protests were held around Spain, with solidarity demos across Europe. This film tells the story of the movement that came together to oppose this threat to reproductive freedom, and ultimately defeated it. Join us for the film, a discussion and plenty of wine, beer and snacks. People of all genders…
Find out more »Reproductive justice for all: organising meeting
What do we need to make a real decision about whether or not to have a child? Join Feminist Fightback and friends as we take forward our plans for action on access to abortion, but also extend our activity to include campaigning for access to maternity care for all, at a time when some migrant women are facing prohibitive charges for crucial antenatal services. We will be discussing: – Setting up a network of activists countering anti-choice picketers outside abortion…
Find out more »Norma Rae screening & discussion for International Women’s Day
Join London IWW GMB and Feminist Fightback to celebrate International Women's Day with a film sceeening, discussion and some food and drink. We'll be talking about the past, present and future of women in the labour movement - on strike at work and in the home. Talk - Laura Schwartz from Feminist Fightback on the history of International Women's Day and the role of migrant womens' struggles. Screening of 'Norma Rae' - A 1979 American drama about a factory worker…
Find out more »Abortion – What’s going on?
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…
Find out more »Feminist Fightback Presents: The Punk Singer
Join Feminist Fightback for a festive screening of The Punk Singer, a film about Bikini Kill/Le Tigre frontwoman Kathleen Hanna. As it's the last screening before Christmas, we'll be doing some dancing afterwards to some riot grrl classics and pop bangers. Say a not very fond farewell to 2016 with us! Entry is a suggested donation of 3-5 pounds. There will be drinks and snacks available for a donation. The Common House is located at Unit 5E (press the buzzer)…
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