Feminists Responses to Attacks on the Welfare State!

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

Feminist Fightback has been thinking about the gendered effects of the benefit cuts, holding ‘Women at the Cutting Edge’ in 2010, authoring ‘Cuts are a feminist issue’ and being involved […]

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 […]

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 […]

Feminist Fightback Film Club: Valentines Day Edition

Its Valentines Day! Come to Feminist Fightback's film screening of She's a Punk Rocker UK by Zillah Minx and celebrate your love of mohawks, badass women, the 80's, swearing, neon, […]

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 […]

Feminist Fightback Film Club presents: 12th & Delaware

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

For November's Feminist Fightback Film Club, we'll be screening 12th and Delaware: a documentary revolving around a 'pregnancy care centre' set up across the road from an abortion clinic in […]

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 […]

Feminist Fightback Film Club: Paris is Burning

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

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. […]

Feminist Fightback Organising Meeting

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

We'll be discussing feminist responses to the HPV vaccine in the UK and India. All self-defining women welcome to organising meetings, this includes trans women and intersex women. Please contact […]

Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: United In Anger

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

For January's Film Club we will be screening United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, jointly and in solidarity with the group, who will be leading a discussion afterwards. […]

Feminist Fightback Film Club Presents: Eyes of the Rainbow

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

This month, Feminist Fightback Film Club will be screening Eyes of the Rainbow, Gloria Rolanda's 1997 documentary about the Black Panther and Black Liberation Army activist Assata Shakur. There will […]

Feminist Fightback North Organising Meeting

Costa Coffee Pinstone Street, Sheffield

All self-defining women welcome to organising meetings, this includes trans women and intersex women. Please contact us if you need childcare. We can either fund it or arrange for you […]

Abortion Rights Action Planning Meeting

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

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 […]

Feminist Fightback Film Club: Made in India

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

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  

Feminist Fightback National Gathering

TBC TBC, Sheffield

All self-defining women welcome to organising meetings, this includes trans women and intersex women. Please contact us if you need childcare. We can either fund it or arrange for you […]

Pro-Choice Direct Action

Stratford

A religious anti-abortion group are planning a procession from their church to a nearby abortion clinic. We can't let this go unchallenged - they might have a right to express […]

Feminist Fightback North Organising Meeting

TBC TBC, Sheffield

All self-defining women welcome to organising meetings, this includes trans women and intersex women. Please contact us if you need childcare. We can either fund it or arrange for you […]

Feminist Fightback North Organising Meeting

TBC TBC, Sheffield

All self-defining women welcome to organising meetings, this includes trans women and intersex women. Please contact us if you need childcare. We can either fund it or arrange for you […]

Feminist Fightback Film Club: Mutantes

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

Virginie Despentes' 2009 documentary, Mutantes (Punk Porn Feminism), provides a context for the Post Porn movement (Punk Porn Feminism) which seeks to re-frame pornography as a creative activity that constructs […]

Feminist Fightback Film Club: Les Stances à Sophie

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

Join Feminist Fightback for our screening of the playful French new wave film Les Stances à Sophie (1971, 97 minutes). Based on the feminist novel by Christiane Rochefort, the film […]

Next London Organising Meeting

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

The next Feminist Fightback London organising meeting will take place on Sunday 19th July, 4-6pm at The Common House. All self-defining women welcome, this includes trans* women. Let us know […]

FF London August Organising Meeting

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

Join us on Sunday for the London meeting of Feminist Fightback. We'll start with a political discussion about the Indignados movement in Spain and the move towards electoral politics. The […]

March Against Evictions: 19th September, Newham, London

Stratford Park West Ham Lane, London

Organised by the Focus E15 Campaign, supported by Feminist Fightback You can visit the facebook event page here or see them on twitter @FocusE15 To mark the 2nd anniversary of Focus […]

Feminist Fightback Organising Meeting

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

All self-defining women welcome to organising meetings, this includes trans women and intersex women. Please contact us if you need childcare. We can either fund it or arrange for you […]

Feminist Fightback North Film Club: Migration (Short Films)

The Red Deer 8 Pitt Street, Sheffield

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

FILM SCREENING Tactics to Counteract the Anti-Choice

The May Day Rooms 88 Fleet Street, London

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). […]

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). […]

Feminist Fightback Organising Meeting

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

Our political discussion this month will be on electoral politics, in the light of recent successes for ‘citizen’s platforms’ in mayoral elections in Spain, and Jeremy Corbyn’s success in the […]

Workshop and Stall at the London Anarchist Bookfair

Central St Martin’s College 1 Granary Square, London

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 […]

FF North Organising Meeting

Costa Coffee Pinstone Street, Sheffield

We meet monthly to discuss political issues through an intersectional lens and some of the ways we resist sexist, racist capitalism. New members are always welcome. Please contact us if […]

Feminist Fightback Film Club : Rebel Menopause & Island of Dreams

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

Feminist Fightback film club is delighted to have the opportunity to screen 2 amazing short documentaries on the Friday 13th November from 7:30pm at the Common House Rebel Menopause by […]

Common House Xmas FUNdraiser

The Old Firehouse

""All I want for Christmas is world revolution." "All I want for Christmas is full communism." "All I want for Christmas is the abolition of imperialist white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy" […]

Feminist Fightback London Organising Meeting

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

As usual, we will have a political discussion followed by some plotting and planning of actions and events. *All self-defining women welcome.* Please contact us in advance if you have […]

FF Reading Group: ‘Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure’ (Segal)

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

We are kicking off a new Feminist Fightback reading group for the new year, reading Lynne Segal's Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure. The book was originally published in 1994, Segal's […]

Set Her Free!

The Home Office 2 Marsham Street, London

Women for Refugee Women will gather outside the Home Office to send a message of "Set Her Free" and "Refugees Welcome" - with performances by Lips Choir, Gaggle, Sula Mae, […]

Shut Down Yarl’s Wood!

Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre Twinwoods Business Park, Thurleigh Road, Milton Ernest, Bedford

Shut Down Yarl's Wood! Saturday 12th March Feminist Fightback North and Feminist Fightback London members will be joining the demonstration at the Yarl's Wood Detention Centre in Bedfordshire, organised by Movement […]

Feminist Fightback Film Club: Je ne suis pas féministe mais

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

Feminist Fightback Film Club presents... Je ne suis pas féministe mais Friday 18th March, 7.30-10pm. We'll be screening Sylvie Tissot and Florence Tissot's 2015 documentary about the political life of […]

Feminist Fightback London Organising Meeting

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

*Al self-defining women welcome.* Our next organising meeting will be on Sunday 20th March from 4-6pm at the Common House. As usual we will have a political discussion, followed by […]

Reproductive Justice – Action planning meeting

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

Feminist Fightback are planning a big counter action against the religious anti-choice brigade in April. Autonomy over our bodies is not negotiable, and we won't stand by and see our […]

Reproductive justice: action planning meeting

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

After a great first meeting last week, join us for our second organising meeting as we plot and plan for an action in east London on Saturday 16th April. We […]

Feminist Fightback Film Club: Cathy Come Home

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

Feminist Fightback Film Club is excited to be screening Ken Loach’s powerful docudrama Cathy Come Home next Friday April 15th at 7.30pm at the Common House. 50 years ago in […]

Direct Action for Reproductive Rights

Stratford

Calling on all activists! One of Feminist Fightback's longstanding campaigns has been fighting for reproductive justice. We want to make sure people can access clinics safely. Therefore we have organised […]

Feminist Fightback London Organising Meeting

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

*Al self-defining women welcome.* Our next organising meeting will be on Sunday April 17th from 4-6pm at the Common House. As usual we will have a political discussion, followed by […]

Feminist Fightback Stall and Workshop @ Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair

Showroom Workstation 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffiled, Yorkshire

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 […]

FF North Organising Meeting

Showroom Cinema Cafe 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield, Sheffield

Our next FF organising meeting will be on May 3rd, 8 -10pm @ The Showroom Cinema. As usual we will have a political discussion, followed by day-today organising business. Please contact […]