Any info on who is calling for this Posi? Sounds interesting, but I went to a socialist feminist conference about a year ago that was a rubbish trot fest. Is it the same people? Can't remember who put it on, but it was in UEL.
Planning meeting for anti-capitalist feminist event - Stepney, London, UK - Sunday 31 August, 3-5.30pm
It's a nucleus of similar people, but with, I understand, more broad support. i.e. Feminist Fightback (which apparently, according to the non-AWL person who sent me this, isn't just an AWL operation), also with support from people from the brilliantly acronymed FAF and the anarcha-feminist collective. As I understand it, this post and similar emails being sent around are part of a real effort to build an even broader "anti-capitalist" organising base for the event - such that it isn't seen as 'trot' or 'AWL' or even just as 'socialist feminist' (as opposed to anarcha-feminist, etc). But I'm not talking officially here, I'm not involved in making it happen.
I also went last year, and thought it was very mixed in quality.
Monthly meeting of feminists from a range of groups who have come together to organise an event in London on 14 February which will focus on the intersections of sex, race and class oppressions.
Sunday 31 August, 3-5.30pm
The Arbour, 100, Shandy Street, London, E1 4ST
Feminists of all genders welcome
We hope the event will provide us with a forum to come together, participate in open debate, learn from each other, develop strategies to work towards our common aims, make alliances and inspire each other to build a strong and active feminist movement from the bottom up.
We are excited and energised by the current resurgence in feminist activism in the UK, but we think that the kind of feminist movement we build and the kind of politics it has, matter. We are committed to an anti-capitalist feminism which sees the interconnections between all struggles against oppressions and against capitalism, and we want to build an event that creates an open space to discuss and develop our ideas. But we don’t want to just talk about our politics – we want to fight to change the material conditions of women’s lives, to fight our exploitation and to fight for the rights of all women – and that includes sex workers and ‘illegal’ migrants. We hope to involve as many women and men as possible in the campaigns that will be at the centre of this event.
Get involved – for more information email alice_robson@hotmail.com