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

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

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

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

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 […]