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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…
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For the many
What I’d do is draw up a list of the main policy pledges from the 2019 manifesto — you know, the one that drew on the then Labour Party’s then policy forums — the one with all the really popular policy options in it, like British Rail, the People’s Post Office, and really saving the…
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The most evil people in the world?
“Why did they kill the children? Even the most savage beast in the jungle isn’t that brutal.” Go on, guess the country, guess the year. It’s not Palestine and it’s not 2025. (Five book recommendations and a musing — well, it’s been raining out there!) I read The Kite Runner a few years ago, and…
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A marriage made in…?
Today I saw the announcement that Skwawkbox (which I use a lot, to read all the bits that get left out of mainstream media stories) and The Canary (which I dropped because they appeared to be way too sold on gender ideology) are uniting in order to unite the left. I really want to know…
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The big row in Hastings (round two)
So, let me see if I can get this right. Hastings Women’s Voice, who wouldn’t let the Women’s Rights Network have a stall at their last do because WRN stand up for women’s rights (Women’s Voice think people who stand up for women’s rights are anti-abortion) are standing up for Queers for Palestine because Hastings…
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Which women’s Voices?
We heard the voices of a group called Women’s Voice in Hastings soon after the Judicial Review came out. I am writing this to anyone in Women’s Voice Hastings who still listens to ‘all women’, and to reassure the many women Women’s Voice do not speak for that people who support women’s rights are not…
Kay Green 