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Rebuttal
*Guest post by anon* Refutation of a False Allegation of Spitting at Filia Conference 2025 At Filia conference a false allegation of spitting was made during a filmed session. A woman claimed she had been spat at in the face in the queue to the venue, in retaliation for making a critical comment to another…
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A cascade of burning books
Three books, a short film and a talk This morning, I read somewhere that Israel has a huge mental health crisis to deal with after all the tormenting and killing of Palestinians the IDF have been doing in Gaza and across the West Bank. It made me think about what kind of trauma must be…
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How do you salve a guilty conscience?
Well, one way is to point attention away from yourself – spread the guilt around as far as you can. This weekend saw protests like these all over the UK – five of our own in Hastings were arrested. Our local activists have been on pretty friendly terms with Hastings police, especially those who have…
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Socially conservative views, anyone?
I’m feeling pretty sorry for the Independent Alliance MPs just now. They’re new MPs. They’re there because the people in their constituencies wanted something better than what the Westminster Parties were offering, and that tells me two things: one, it must have been really hard for them to find their feet and make a space…
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A litany on ten years of TRA activity
[TRA = trans activist. Please note, TRAs are not necessarily trans people, and most definitely not all trans people are trans activists — trans friends of mine have been hounded for being ‘off message’ every bit as badly as I have. Similarly, lefty feminists, Woman’s Place UK for example, are not anti-trans and have not…
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Artificial Ignorance
So, today it happened to me. I saw a Facebook ‘friend”s post, which was making a political point, based on a photo. I got the point, although I suspected her motivation was a bit odd (all that stuff about what’s feminism, what’s racism and how the heck did I get lost somewhere between the two).…
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Palestinian Liberation is a Feminist Issue
A group of women, feeling that trying to stop the genocide and end the illegal occupation of Palestine was too important a task to be sidelined at a feminist conference, ran their own Palestine fringe meeting. Here is Emily Garcia’s speech, which opened the event… *** Guest post*** There are many reasons why the issue…
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Genocide was stalking the corridors of conference
I’m just back from day one of FiLiA, the biggest (and I’d say the best) feminist conference in Europe. No time to say much yet, but there was one very, very urgent message: During the opening speeches, Rahila Gupta reminded everyone that what’s happening in Palestine is not something anyone can afford to ignore. I…
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Is this a different direction?
Question: is it possible to join Your Party and ‘take a different direction’? Answer:…? For the last couple of years, I’ve been learning about real democracy. I first came across the concept in a film about Venezuela in the Chavez era. The way Venezuelans at that time formed into local assemblies that discussed issues at…
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This may be a good thing
Blat blat blat Zara Sultana blat blat SWP blat blat blat blat Jeremy Corbyn blat blat blat blat Karie Murphy blat blat blat blat Information Commissioner blat blat Adnan Hussein blat blat blat blat blat blat … Bang! Why? Because when they did this… …she did this… … and they responded with this… … and…
Kay Green 