Provisional timetable
10.30-11.00am: Registration and Introduction
11.00-12.00:
The far right are organising internationally and building strength in our communities. Over the last year in the UK we’ve seen continued hostility outside hotels housing refugees; over 100,000 on the Unite the Kingdom rally, a relentless barrage of anti trans legal action, and Reform growing their electoral base.
In the US Trump has stripped women’s trans people and people of colour of rights and unleashed ICE, - displaying the murderous consequences of these forces in power.
All this exists in the context of a failure of governments to address social needs of working class people and a looming capitalist crisis.
There are many examples of communities organising to Fightback. Women, LGBTQ+ and migrants are on the front line of attack and resistance.
In this session a panel will discuss these issues and how we can best confront and counter far right ideas and actions
12.00-13.00: Lunch
13.00-14.30
Workshop
Workers Liberty host several monthly socialist feminist book clubs across the country, in Manchester, Sheffield, London and online. The groups provide an opportunity for discussion, debate and development of socialist feminist ideas based around books, book chapters and essays.
This session will be a facilitated, collective discussion of Tithi Bhattacharya’s essay, ‘How Not To Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working Class.’
In this essay Bhattacharya develops a dynamic understanding of the modern working class, based on fundamental Marxist insights and using a framework of social reproduction to help us consider the relationship between class struggle and oppression within capitalism.
The Sex Talk, with members of the Women’s Fightback editorial board
The strapline for Women’s Fightback, the socialist-feminist magazine published by Workers’ Liberty, says we stand for “sex positive, trans-inclusive, class-struggle feminism”. Should we still stand for “sex-positive” feminism, despite a growing move away from it among many “fourth-wave” feminists?14.30-14.45: Break
14.45-16.15:
Workshop: Red Rag and socialist feminist press
Amy Todd is currently studying a PhD at the University of Manchester and with the People's History Museum (which also holds the Labour History Archives and Study Centre). She researches the 1970s socialist feminist magazine Red Rag.
In this workshop Amy will bring a selection of 1970s socialist feminist magazine and print culture to explore and discuss; how different was socialist feminism 50 years ago? And what can we learn from this material today?
16.30-16.45: Closing plenary
17.00: Evening social (details TBC)