Marxist. Trade Unionist. Socialist-feminist. Author. Poet. Speaker. Tutor. RMT ex-Exec. Workers' Liberty. Autie. Bi. PUFC fan.
Changing the world for the better
Menopause at work hit the headlines on 22 February as the Equality and Human Rights Commission issued new guidance on the issue. However, the guidance only affirmed what the law has been for the last fourteen years, and the fact that news coverage trumpeted it as a breakthrough can only mean that employers have not been following the law.
Janine’s annual poetic performance at Ealing Trades Union Council’s International Women’s Day celebration. There will also be speakers and music, and a good time will be had by all. Venue: to be confirmed
(Ode to Lee Anderson) When I said I hated men dressed in pink And that women should be tied to the kitchen sink I wasn’t being a prat, a bigot or fink I was simply saying what most people think … Read More
Janine brings some poetic flavour ot this local Labour Party festive fling. Venue to be confirmed.
A three-hour training workshop for staff of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists to help make its work more neuro-inclsuive.
Join us for Soteria in the Pub, our open mic event to raise awareness for compassionate alternatives in mental health, at The Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon (London EC1R 3BL). Soteria Network is an international movement of service users, survivors, activists, carers and professionals fighting for more humane, … Read More
They’re marching off to war on woke, to fan the flames, to fuel and stoke a cooked-up culture conflagration, save the fabric of our nation and every thing we Brits hold dear from those who’d welcome migrants here They’ll soon … Read More
Online. GMB reps in the Southerbn region can register via the regional office.
Venue: RMT National Education Centre, Doncaster Registration for this course is now closed.
A three-day residential course in Eastbourne for Fire Brigades Union reps.
A panel of Janine, Robert Chapman and Sarah McCulloch discuss how Marxism can contribute to an understanding of neurodiversity and how we can achieve liberation. Part of Workers’ Liberty’s annual Ideas for Freedom festival.
New reps start here! This course is now full. Venue: RMT National Education Centre, Doncaster.
Janine will speak about neurodiversity and deliver a couple of poems at this meeting of lefty health campaigners.
A one-day training workshop to introduce neurodiversity, for FBU member sin Manchester.
Training for new RMT reps in the Midlands region, held at the union’s Birmingham office. Register via the union’s website or your branch.
If you are a PCS member and are interested in attending this two-day online course, please contact your branch organiser or regional training officer.
A workshop for delegates at the annual conference of the Bakers’ Food and Allied Workers’ Union.
Online. GMB reps in the Southern region can register for this course via the regional office.
Who knew that new need not actually mean new? It might mean refurbished or extended, repurposed or pretended? Who knew? Who’d have thought it, that forty need not actually mean forty? That’s rather naughty It ought to, surely? I’d have … Read More
I’d rather do a highland fling Or tie my nipples up with string Impale my buttock on a spring I’d rather do most anything Than pledge allegiance to a king I’d risk the wrath of Merciless Ming Or face what … Read More