As socialists we should welcome wholeheartedly this re-emergence of a radical women’s liberation movement with its broad base of support, and leadership rooted in socialist feminism that has the practical aims of defending women and girls’ limited and hard-won rights, spaces and social provision, and entrenching and extending those gains where possible.
*** Guest post by Ian McNee***
Women’s Liberation, Identity Politics & Socialism
On Saturday 4th February the feminist campaigning organisation Woman’s Place UK are co-hosting their second national conference on women’s liberation with the UCL Women’s Liberation SIG at the Institute for Education, UCL and on the theme: “Education for Women’s Liberation.”
This follows their first hugely successful conference “Women’s Liberation 2020” held at the same venue a few weeks before the first COVID lockdowns – an event for which all tickets sold out weeks in advance with over 900 attendees from across the UK, across the political spectrum and from a wide variety of organisations and disciplines.
As socialists we should welcome wholeheartedly this re-emergence of a radical women’s liberation movement with its broad base of support, and leadership rooted in socialist feminism that has the practical aims of defending women and girls’ limited and hard-won rights, spaces and…
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