Women's Fightback 07, February-March 2011

Solidarity is our answer to the "Big Society"

“It’s a vulnerable time. We have been told not to speak to anyone”, said a woman picketing at Rawmarsh School in Rotherham on 12 January, on strike against threats of redundancies. Women preparing to fight cuts in Tower Hamlets said the same to Women’s Fightback . But the instruction from managers not to talk about what is happening to them is likely to make women at the forefront of the cuts even more angry. “We need to do the exact opposite”, said one woman at a mass meeting of all the trade unions organising council workers in Tower Hamlets. “We need to tell parents, community activists and...

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