Marxist. Trade Unionist. Socialist-feminist. Author. Poet. Speaker. Tutor. RMT ex-Exec. Workers' Liberty. Autie. Bi. PUFC fan.
Socialist feminism! Everyday sexism! Women's struggles past and present!
Venue: St James Clubhouse, 11 Blatchington Road Seaford, East Sussex, BN25 2AB
Janine begins each half of this event with some appropriately-themed poetry. There will also be speakers and other activities. The theme is women in sport.
Venue: RMT National Education Centre, Doncaster
RMT women members can register for this course via their branch or the members' section of the union's website.
Janine will tell the story of one of Holloway prison's former residents at this event to mark the seventh anniversary of the prison's closure and promote proposals for a progressive Women's Building in its place.
Venue: entrance to HMP Holloway, Parkhurst Road, London N7 0NU.
She doesn't cringe and cower,
she's not a fragile flower
She picked on him and tricked him
She's not a perfect victim
She tells of his coercion,
he tells a different version
How dare she contradict him?
She's not a perfect victim
She unstable, she's a venter,
she's known to lose her temper
She pushed him and she kicked him
She's not a perfect victim
She provoked him.
She said she was leaving him.
She’s been looking at other guys.
He had to show her.
She had to know
She isn’t a person in her own right,
She’s part of him.
She is the buffer between him and a hostile world.
Janine's contribution to the debate on shiftwork at TUC Women's Conference 2022.
Read the text here.
At this year's TUC Women's Conference, one of the motions we debated was about working shifts, particularly women's safety on late shifts. This was my contribution to the debate.
You can watch the video of this speech here.
I'm Janine Booth, RMT, and I've worked on London Underground for over 25 years.
Published in Solidarity 610, 20 October 2021.
The Night Tube in London will resume on two lines from 27 November, in a move promoted as ensuring safety for women. However, the reality is more complex, and women’s safety requires increased Night Tube staffing.
Be streetwise, girls, be streetwise
and you won't get false-arrested
Look out for cuffs and meat knives
Be streetwise, girls, be streetwise
and memorise our treatise
on what to do when pestered
Be streetwise, girls, be streetwise
and you won't be false-arrested
Published in Women's Fightback 26, Autumn/Winter 2021