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Villanelle: Terminal 420

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When I visited the Port of Antwerp in October 2014 with the ETF Women’s Committee, we were due to go to a particular terminal – but it was closed, after a seafarer was killed while a ship was being loaded … Read more

Working-class Women and Bourgeois Feminists

The third in a series of articles about the German socialist women’s movement 1890-1914 written in 2005 – originally published here. What is often seen as one issue – referred to at the time as the ‘woman question’ – actually … Read more

Women in the Irish nationalist movement 1900-1916

Written back in around 1993: Constance Markievicz and the other women who fought in the Easter Rising struggled to be accepted on equal terms by the Irish labour movement and among nationalists. Their experience holds many lessons for today’s socialists … Read more

Should the Workers’ Movement Have Special Structures for Women?

The fourth in a series of articles about the German socialist women’s movement 1890-1914, written in 2005, originally published here: Laws against women’s organisation After Bismarck’s Anti-Socialist Law lapsed in 1890, laws remained which restricted women’s political activity. The 1851 … Read more

Organising working-class women

The second in a series of articles about the German socialist women’s movement 1890-1914, written in 2005, originally published here. Education German socialist women placed strong emphasis on education. They set up education clubs for women and girls (Frauen- and … Read more

Introducing the German socialist women’s movement 1890-1914

Introducing a series of articles on the German socialist women’s movement 1890-1914, written in 2005, originally published here. During the nineteenth century, the emerging workers’ movement began to develop its policy on the ‘woman question’. The early, ‘utopian’ socialists argued … Read more

Constance Markievicz: a life

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These are biographical notes on the ‘Red Countess’, Constance Markievicz, prepared for the London Socialist Feminist Discussion Group on 10 October 2008. Also attached are two one-page files giving a timeline of her life. Constance Georgine Gore-Booth was born on … Read more

Message of Support to French Rail Strikers

In October 2010, French rail workers were on strike. I sent this message of support to them. I am writing on behalf of the London Transport Region of the National Union of Rail Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) here in … Read more

Women (and men) workers in Finland’s transport industry

September 2013: On the first day of the ETF Women’s Committee meeting, several Finnish transport trade unionists attended as guests, including women from the logistics, shipping, rail and salaried sectors. We also had a presentation from Tapio Bergholm, who has … Read more

Driverless Trains: a Warning from Helsinki

September 2013 The underground railway (Metro) in Finland’s capital city Helsinki is due to go ‘driverless’ in 2016. I discussed this with Finnish trade unionists Jussi and Satu, and heard a story that has important lessons for London Underground workers … Read more