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Be inspired by over 100 years of east London women fighting for change (and winning!) Join the East End Women’s Museum and East End Sisters Uncut for an afternoon of short talks and conversations about the different ways east London … Read More
A guided tour round Minnie Lansbury’s Bow, east London. If you would like to arrange for me to take you on this guided walk, please email me. Thanks to Andrew Gellert and Jen Blane for the photos.
walkingwithminnieguide Attached is the leaflet for walkers taking Janine’s guided tour of Minnie Lansbury’s Bow, east London. If you would like to arrange a walking tour, please contact Janine.
Janine leads a guided walking tour of east London, tracing the life and struggles of Minnie Lansbury, Jewish socialist, suffragette, campaigner for war orphans, communist and rebel councillor. Meet at Bow Road London Underground station at 6pm … and finishing … Read More
Reclaim its real name It is International Working Women’s Day Let’s celebrate with Words of wit and wisdom from Inspiring women “Freedom is always The freedom of dissenters” Rosa Luxemburg “I had crossed the line I was free but a … Read More
Reclaim its real name It is International Working Women’s Day
Sylvia Pankhurst Organised and believed in Working-class women
Notes from the introduction to a workshop on ‘What do we mean by socialist feminism?’ at Workers’ Liberty Women’s ‘All The Rage’ event on 28 February 2015. 1. Key ideas: Gender roles, sexism, oppression are not biological or inevitable, … Read More
“I had crossed the line I was free but a stranger” Harriet Tubman
Emmeline Pankhurst Started as a suffragette Became a Tory
Sylvia Pankhurst: “Love and freedom are vital To kids’ upbringing”
Janine will be giving a presentation about Minnie Lansbury at the Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives (277 Bancroft Road, London E1 4DQ) as part of Women’s History Month. Also speaking (provisionally) will be Sarah Jackson about the East London Suffragettes. Around the same time, … Read More
Join us at The Kitchen @the Bridge, 73-81 Southwark Bridge Road, SE1 0NQ This event is free of charge: please email [email protected] to confirm your attendance so we can ensure that there is enough food and drink! You are invited to an evening … Read More
“Freedom is always The freedom of dissenters” Rosa Luxemburg
In 1848, in response to the 300-strong Convention for Woman’s Rights in Seneca Falls (USA) and its Declaration of Sentiments, a Philadelphia newspaper urged the city’s ladies not to join the new movement and become women but to stay as … Read More
The WSF was the organisation led by Sylvia Pankhurst, which had previously been the Workers’ Suffrage Federation, and before that, the East London Federation of the Suffragettes. It had previously fought militantly, first for votes for women, and then more … Read More
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
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
The last in a series of five articles written in 2005 – originally published here: Divided loyalties Socialist feminists are continually accused of ‘divided loyalties’, challenged to declare which is our priority: class or sex. It makes a lot more … Read More
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