Convention of the Left Debates Equality

Submitted by Anon on 26 September, 2008 - 10:35 Author: Laura Schwartz

The main hall at the Left Convention was full for the meeting on how to fight for women’s equality, with speakers from Abortion Rights, Feminist Fightback, the Labour Party and the Women’s Charter. Almost all speakers and contributors agreed on the need for a feminist politics that fought on class issues and Feminist Fightback stressed the need for socialist feminists to participate in the various feminist initatives that have been emerging in the last few years.

The meeting also discussed the need for socialist and labour movement men to look to sexism in their own movement and not to see women’s rights as a side issue.

Many men did attend this meeting and we hope that at future meetings of the Convention “women’s issues” such as childcare and housing will be incorporated more fully into the agenda. We also hope that all the different groups represented will take part in the “Gender-Race-Class: An Anti-Capitalist Feminist Event” in which Feminist Fightback and a number of other groups are organising in London on 14 February 2009.

Email anticapitalistfeminists@riseup.net for more information.

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