• The S Word: A Conversation on Feminist Sex and Relationship Education

    We are a group from a diversity of backgrounds with an interest in the attitudes surrounding Sex and Relationships Education. We feel that a key reason why much SRE for young people is unsatisfactory is that as a society we have problems discussing, and having, sex and relationships in empowering ways. We therefore believe that […]

  • Public Meeting on Feminism, Childcare and Reproductive Labour

    The Common House The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • Feminist Fightback Film Club: Born In Flames

    The Common House The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom

    Made in 1983, ‘Born in Flames’ (dir. Lizzie Borden) is an incredible docu-drama/ sci fi film set in the future, ten years after a social democratic revolution which has established American Socialism. However, Black and working-class women are not happy with this form of reformism and start arming themselves and forming the women’s army to bring about […]

  • Feminist Fightback Film Club: Mothers’ Strike

    The Common House The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom

    Inspired by the current Focus E15 Mothers struggle for social housing in Newham, London, and past and present housing struggles in the UK and abroad, this month's Feminist Fightback Film Club takes housing as its theme. Mothers' Strike (22', Szum TV/ Feminist Think Tank Poland, 2010) - introduced by Magda who made the film Behind the Rent Strike […]

  • What is working?

    The Common House The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • Feminist Fightback Film Club: Paris is Burning

    The Common House The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom

    A Christmas/Hanukkah/solstice/communist social Including film showing of Paris is Burning, followed by a 1980s themed queer dance disco. Come and join us. All welcome. Suggested donations £3 low/unwaged; £5 waged. Join the Facebook event here.  www.feministfightback.org.uk – feminist.fightback@gmail.com – @femfight www.facebook.com/feministfightback – www.facebook.com/feministfightback  

  • Abortion Rights Action Planning Meeting

    The Common House The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • ‘Fighting for Reproductive Justice – a Review on Feminist Strategies and Right-Wing Attacks’

    Feminist Fightback are delighted to be attending Connecting European Struggles; Feminism in the Crisis Conference in Malmö, Sweden 18-20 September 2015. In particular, we are honored to be co-hosting a session on 'Fighting for Reproductive Justice - a Review on Feminist Strategies and Right-Wing Attacks' with  E*Vibes (Germany) 14:00-15:30, 20th Sept 2015 More information  

  • FILM SCREENING Tactics to Counteract the Anti-Choice

    The May Day Rooms 88 Fleet Street, London, United Kingdom

    Feminist Fightback are delighted to be hosting pro choice screening + discussion at the Festival of Choice, Wednesday 23rd September, 7pm (The May Day Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DH). For more information Join the Facebook event

  • Festival of Choice: Tactics to counteract anti-choice

    Feminist Fightback are delighted to be hosting pro choice screening + discussion at the Festival of Choice, Wednesday 23rd September, 7pm (The May Day Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DH). We’ll be screening Twelfth and Delaware, Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing’s 2010 documentary, following a group of anti-abortion protestors in Florida as they set up […]

  • FEMINISM PAST AND PRESENT: SCREENING OF SUFFRAGETTE FOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH HISTORIANS AND ACTIVISTS

    Genesis Cinema 93-95 Mile End Road, London, United Kingdom

    Join Feminist Fightback for an evening of 'Feminism Past and Present' 6pm, 15th October 2015, Genesis Cinema, London The special screening of 'Suffragette' will be followed by a Q&A with Laura Schwartz (author of Infidel Feminism and historian of the women's suffrage movement at the University of Warwick) and Alice Robson (a member of the […]

  • Workshop and Stall at the London Anarchist Bookfair

    Central St Martin’s College 1 Granary Square, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • Still fighting for reproductive justice: a feminist discussion on tactics

    Central St Martin’s College 1 Granary Square, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • Feminist Fightback Stall and Workshop @ Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair

    Showroom Workstation 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffiled, Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    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

  • Abortion – What’s going on?

    The Common House The Common House Unit 5E (press the buzzer) 5 Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, London, United Kingdom

    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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Antiuniversity Now: Reflections on Straight Sex

    New River Studios Ground Floor Unit E, 199 Eade Road, London, United Kingdom

    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, […]

  • Reading group – Full Surrogacy Now by Sophie Lewis

    Reading group - Full Surrogacy Now by Sophie Lewis First Tuesday of the month, 8-9pm, on Zoom We are really pleased to be starting a new Feminist Fightback reading group in the new year, where we will read Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (Verso Press) by our comrade Sophie Lewis. All genders welcome. https://youtu.be/XQtalfvD0Yo […]

  • Reading group – Full Surrogacy Now by Sophie Lewis

    Reading group - Full Surrogacy Now by Sophie Lewis First Tuesday of the month, 8-9pm, on Zoom We are really pleased to be starting a new Feminist Fightback reading group in the new year, where we will read Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (Verso Press) by our comrade Sophie Lewis. All genders welcome. https://youtu.be/XQtalfvD0Yo […]

  • Reading group – Full Surrogacy Now by Sophie Lewis

    Reading group - Full Surrogacy Now by Sophie Lewis First Tuesday of the month, 8-9pm, on Zoom We are really pleased to be starting a new Feminist Fightback reading group in the new year, where we will read Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (Verso Press) by our comrade Sophie Lewis. All genders welcome. https://youtu.be/XQtalfvD0Yo […]

  • Reading group – Full Surrogacy Now by Sophie Lewis

    Reading group - Full Surrogacy Now by Sophie Lewis First Tuesday of the month, 8-9pm, on Zoom We are really pleased to be starting a new Feminist Fightback reading group in the new year, where we will read Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (Verso Press) by our comrade Sophie Lewis. All genders welcome. https://youtu.be/XQtalfvD0Yo […]