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Venue: Killisick Community Centre, Nottingham NG5 Gedling Labour’s Women’s Forum are proud to announce Labour Women’s History expert and author Nan Sloane will be speaking about her new book The Women in the Room at an evening reception. We are very … Read more
You must register for this event by booking a free ticket here. Capacity is limited. Venue: Unity House, 39 Chalton Street, Kings Cross, London NW1 1DU Speakers: Janine Booth, author Clive Lewis MP Host: Michelle Rodgers, RMT National President A launch … Read more
On the day before Minnie Lansbury’s 130th birthday, Janine Booth speaks about her life at Workers’ Liberty’s London Forum. Venue: UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL More details and (free) ticket booking here. All welcome. This is a … Read more
Janine will give a talk and lead a discussion about Minnie Lansbury, with her new book – Minnie Lansbury: suffragette, socialist, rebel councillor – on sale. Hosted by Labour Political Education Workshop. Venue: New Cross Learning, 283 – 285 New Cross Rd, London SE14 … Read more
When Rosa gazed through prison bars to street She saw the water buffalo which drove The heavy coated cart on cloven feet And when they could not pull their weighty load Their master turned his whip and beat and strapped Until they bled and flinched … Read more
Published by The Clarion, 27 November 2018: The 1918 general election was the first to be held on a single day (14 December), the first in which nearly all adult men were entitled to vote, and the first in which … Read more
Venue: Finsbury Library As part of Islington Council Libraries’ ‘Echoes of Hollowy Prison’ series of events, Janine speaks about Minnie Lansbury, who spend six weeks in the prison as part of the successful fight against unfair rates, and who died … Read more
Janine speaks at a fringe meeting at the National Education Union (NEU) conference. All welcome, whether you are attending the conference or not. Venue: The Victory, 6 Duke Street, Brighton, BN1 1AH Details and map here.
North London supporters of The Clarion magazine are hosting a meeting with RMT and Hackney Labour activist Janine Booth, author of Guilty and Proud of it! Poplar’s Rebel Councillors and Guardians 1919-1925 (Merlin Press, 2009) Janine’s book, with a foreword … Read more
A public meeting/discussion, organised by Lewisham Workers’ Liberty Minnie Lansbury was only 32 when she died in 1922, but she had a full and inspiring life. The daughter of Jewish immigrants, she was one of the Poplar Labour councillors who … Read more
Venue: Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archive, 277 Bancroft Rd, London E1 4DQ. Free entry. All welcome. With speakers, refreshments, and copies of the pamphlet available for just £2.50 per copy. Speakers include: Janine Booth, pamphlet author Selina Gellert, … Read more
When history tells of mighty kings Who’s working wonders in the wings? Fighting battles, changing things? Disaffected Middle-Aged Women! In 1848 they came To Seneca Falls to stake their claim Mature and bolshy, never tame – Disaffected Middle-aged Women! Harriet Tubman, Sojourner … Read more
Janine gave this talk at ‘East End Women Take Action’, an event held on 24 September 2016, organised by the East End Women’s Museum.
Janine’s speech proposing this motion on the 50th Anniversary of the Abortion Act at RMT Women’s Conference 2017. It’s worth remembering what life was like for working-class women before abortion was legalised. While rich women were always able to find a … Read more
This resolution was passed unanimously by RMT Women’s Conference 2017. THIS CONFERENCE NOTES THAT: 1. this year is the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act 2. before this Act, women who did not want to continue an unwanted pregnancy … Read more
Janine proposing a motion at RMT Women’s Conference calling on the union to reaffirm its commitment to women’s right to choose and access abortion, and to mark the 50th anniversary of the Abortion Act by ensuring that there is no … Read more
Published in The Clarion, issue 4, January/February 2017. Minnie Lansbury was a school teacher, suffragette, champion of the victims of war, rebel councillor and socialist martyr. Born Minnie Glassman in 1889, she was the daughter of Jewish immigrants to the … Read more
Following last year’s tour de force, Janine returns to Ealing with some socialist feminist ranting poetry.
Text of the George Lansbury Memorial Lecture, given on 16 November 2016 at Queen Mary University, London. I’m working on the assumption that most of you know a fair bit about George Lansbury but rather less about his daughter-in-law … Read more