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 […]
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 […]
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 you need childcare. Members often bring small people to the meeting, or we will provide funding if you need to make other arrangements. If you have […]
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 Adele Tulli : Rebel Menopause is the intimate portrait of Therese Clerc, a french 85 years old woman and a militant feminist whose passion for […]
""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" Friday, 18th December, 7pm – 11pm DJ sets from Girl Germs and Raymond Girl Germs is a feminist, not-for-profit club night which raises funds for […]
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 any accessibility requirements, including childcare. For more information: FB Group Have you *liked* our Facebook page? Why not join our FB group? Stay up-to-date by following […]
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 contribution to the contentious debates in the feminist movement on the possibilities and problems of heterosexual desire for women. Still relevant today, the book has […]
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, Sabrina Mahfouz, Demi Mseleku, Nyakaza (Move) African Dancers, Sajeela Kershi, and The London Klezmer Quartet, plus speakers including: Meltem Avcil (ex child detainee and Set […]
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 for Justice. Feminist Fightback have been involved in organising and supporting protests regarding Yarl’s Wood for many years – especially in light of repeated allegations of […]
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 the French feminist Christine Delphy. The film will be followed by a discussion. Snacks available and we will again have the cheapest bar in East […]
*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 day-today organising business. Please contact us in advance if you have any accessibility requirements, including childcare. Feminist Fightback are a trans friendly group, whose planning meetings […]
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 access to abortion threatened. This is an open invitation to all groups and individuals who want to take part and help plan and organise the […]
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 will discuss 'plan b' scenarios, firm up stuff and make banners so bring material (we will provide the paint). Thursday 7th April, 7pm at The […]
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 1966, the controversy generated by Cathy Come Home led to public outrage at the state of housing in Britain. In 2016, the situation is no […]
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 an action in Stratford on Saturday 16th April when one of these groups are planning a procession from a church to a local abortion clinic […]
*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 day-today organising business. Please contact us in advance if you have any accessibility requirements, including childcare. Feminist Fightback are a trans friendly group, whose planning meetings […]
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
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 us in advance if you have any accessibility requirements, including childcare. Feminist Fightback are a trans friendly group, whose planning meetings are open to all-self defining […]
4 PM-6 PM Sunday 16 October at The Field, 385 Queens Road, SE14 5HD (nearest station New Cross Gate). 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.
'A stage somewhere in Europe: naked women, fake blood, masturbation and screaming' Too Much Pussy! is the roving camera work of French director Emilie Jouvet as she follows a group of queer performance artists on their Queer X Show tour around Europe, portraying a slice of the queer/feminist/punk porn underground and at the same time […]
October London 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.
A different, better USA, to the one that Donald Trump represents. Harlan County USA is Barbara Kopple's powerful 1976 documentary of a coal-mining strike in Kentucky. Years in the making, the film documents the extreme hardship of a community – women and men – fighting for decent wages, safety, the right to organise and the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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; […]
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 […]
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, […]
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: […]
"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 […]
This month's Feminist Fightback film is a french coming of age drama that discusses and challenges conceptions of race, gender and class.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Copyright © 2026 | MH Purity lite WordPress Theme by MH Themes