Women’s Caucus
24 hour childcare – A ‘revolutionary’ idea that is an obtainable reform!
By Susan Pashkoff Read more »
Thoughts from My Belly is Mine demo
Jade Hope reports from the protest outside the Spanish Embassy in London on June 27 Read more »
Left Unity Women’s Caucus Pass the baton of freedom: On Reproductive Rights
By Susan Pashkoff Left Unity Women’s Caucus This talk was presented on Sunday as part of the event on the 11th of May, 2014 in solidarity with our sisters in the Spanish state facing an attack on their reproductive rights. Back in January, it was the 41st anniversary of Roe vs Wade and Doe vs […] Read more »
Left Unity Women’s Caucus: Pass the baton of freedom – demand safe, free and unrestricted access to abortion
A talk given by Kerry Abel on 11 May at an event co-sponsored by Left Unity Women's Caucus, "Abortion Rights" and "My Belly is Mine." Read more »
Pass the baton of freedom: demand safe, free and unrestricted access to abortion
A public meeting organised by Left Unity Women’s Caucus, Sunday 11 May, London. Read more »
Introducing the LU women’s caucus
The Left Unity Women’s caucus was created to facilitate the autonomous self-organisation of women in Left Unity. This caucus exists to provide women with a safe space to organise, debate and discuss issues that are specific to the oppression of women in the context of capitalism and to enable this discussion to be represented on […] Read more »
The Struggle Continues … 41 years after Roe and Doe
by Susan Pashkoff In January, we passed the 41st anniversary of Roe vs Wade and Doe vs Bolton in the United States. A few days before the anniversary, I received an email from the Center for Reproductive Rights entitled “Victory in North Carolina” saying that a federal judge (Catherine Eagles) struck down the North Carolina […] Read more »
News not boobs
For decades now, pictures of naked women have been slapped all over the third page in certain newspapers, and quite frankly, enough is enough. I believe that Left Unity should support the campaign to end page 3! Yes, I am aware that feminism has much more important and bigger tasks to take on. […] Read more »
The trouble with marriage
Kathy Lowe from Waltham Forest looks at the issues: Marriage is making a comeback. Although more people are bringing up children on their own, living alone or co-habiting than ever before, a huge ideological offensive is under way to persuade the younger generation to marry, conform and return to “traditional family values”. Despite the […] Read more »
Why we need quotas
In reply to – Quotas harm the cause – The left should not succumb to neoliberalism’s phoney version of equality, argues Yassamine Mather. http://www.cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/999/quotas-harm-the-cause#1 We do not believe that by having a 50% quota to ensure that women hold political positions with in our party will solve the oppression of women. We have never argued […] Read more »
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Just Stop Oil – Slow Marches
Slow marches are still legal (so LOW RISK of arrest), and are extremely effective. The plan is to keep up the pressure on this ecocidal government to stop all new fossil fuel licences.
Saturday 27th April: national march for Palestine
National demonstration.
Ceasefire NOW! Stop the Genocide in Gaza: Assemble 12 noon Central London
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