France's ban on the burqa is aimed at winning over Front National voters and creating a specifically French Islam, without ties to fundamentalist strains in the Middle East and North Africa.
Established in 1911, International Women’s Day was first proposed by Clara Zetkin and other socialists as a way of making solidarity with the trade union and other class struggles of working-class women. For many years now the “working-class” has gone out of International Women’s Day which at best is a “celebration” of feminist (and not so) feminist women in history, the arts, politics and sport.
Ada Nield Chew was a member of Independent Labour Party who in 1905 challenged the policy of the Women’s Social and Political Union, led by the suffragette “nobility” Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, that "wealthy women be enfranchised, while the great body of working women, married or single, would be voteless still".
The “Big Society” means working class women stand to experience attacks on their jobs, cuts to housing benefits, child maintenance, lone-parent benefits, income support and services for childcare, domestic violence support or sexual and reproductive health.
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