Issues and campaigns: Equalities

Challenging discrimination and fighting for liberation

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  • Anti-Racism
    • Fighting against racism and the structures and institutions that perpetuate it
  • Antisemitism
    • Prejudice against, hostility towards, stereotyping of Jews
  • Disability
    • Disabled people campaigning for rights - for access, benefits, services and equality; against discrimination, cuts, prejudice and pity!
  • Autism
    • Autistic people face discrimination and prejudice in a society which expects us to understand and fit in with social rules that are not of our making.
  • Autism in the workplace

    Writing, training, speaking, campaigning ...

  • Disability rights
    • Action against discrimination.
  • Disabled access to public transport
    • Removing the barriers that prevent disabled people from travelling
  • Neurodiversity
    • 'Neurodiversity' means that different people have different brain wiring. Those with a minority brain wiring - such as dyslexic, autistic and dyspraxic people - face discrimination at work and in wider society. 
  • LGBT+ liberation
    • Campaigning for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans* rights.
  • Women’s liberation
    • Socialist feminism! Everyday sexism! Women's struggles past and present!
  • Sexism
    • Misogyny, discrimination, prejudice, ...
  • Socialist feminism
    • No women's liberation without socialism, not socialism without women's liberation
  • Violence Against Women
    • On average, more than two women in England and Wales are killed by a male partner or ex. And then there is rape, sexual harassment, and more.

Nazis and Nailbombers: Fighting the Fascists

from the pamphlet Radical Chains: Sexuality and Class Politics, published in 1999. On 30 April 1999, a nail-bomb killed three people and injured dozens more. It exploded in the Admiral Duncan pub in Old Compton Street, the heart of gay … Read more

The Story of Section 28

This abridged version of an article published in Workers’ Liberty, December 1997, was included in the Workers’ Liberty pamphlet Radical Chains: Sexuality and Class Politics, published in 1999. In 1987, the anti-gay law Section 28 made its first appearance in … Read more

Mood Swings

An attempt to put the ups and downs of depression into verse … Bright skies, natural highs, Summer haze, happy days, Good things … mood swings Dark cloud, not proud Guilt, shame, down again Life’s shit, deep pit Break down, … Read more

Knives. Forks. Spoons. Obviously.

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Knives. Forks. Spoons. Obviously. What other arrangement could it possibly be? There’s a reason that cutlery drawers have three distinct spaces So we can place our utensils in their correct places It’s forks in the middle, knives and spoons to … Read more

Horseplay

This poem is about the murder of 18-year-old, gay, autistic student Steven Simpson – and the appalling miscarriage of justice when his killer was prosecuted. You can read a news report giving more information here; and the resolution adopted by … Read more

While Bishops Washed Their Frocks

Shortly before Christmas 2012, the Church of Engalnd voted not to allow women to become bishops. The decision to allow women bishops – with some qualification – was taken around two years later. To the tune of While Shepherd’s Watched … Read more