Women's Fightback #34, Summer 2025.

Women's Fightback is a socialist feminist magazine by Workers' Liberty. We stand for trans-inclusive, sex-positive, class struggle feminism. We organise in our workplaces and trade unions, and in the student movement and Labour Party for socialist feminist politics. Get your copy now! 

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The blunt truth is that things aren't getting better. Austerity continues in the UK and women are at the sharp end of it. The Supreme Court ruling on the definition of sex, and more substantively its interpretation in the hands of state and corporate institutions, is a major setback for the ability of trans people to live with dignity. The police have been instructed to seize the phones and search the homes of women who have late-term miscarriages, so that they might be prosecuted under a law from 1861. The manosphere is turning young men into activist misogynists.

But the future is yet to be written. In this issue, we bring you news of these developments but we also set out what must be done – and what feminists, socialists, trade unionists, and trans rights activists are already doing – to push back. The battle lines run through our culture as well as our politics. So we also bring you reviews of a new stage play looking at Section 28, recipes from an incarcerated Iranian feminist, and much more.

Articles:
Pathways to poverty, women and the welfare state
Death by a thousand cuts. A short history of getting less and needing more
On the slogan 'Welfare not Warfare'
Saving our domestic violence services
After the Supreme Court: the fight for trans rights
Trans rights: the fight in the unions
We fight again: a brief history of trans rights in Britain
After the Act and the new Section 28
Why we marched
Lost Boys
Pink-pilled
Sex wars: why we stand for sex positive feminism
Workers for decrim
The weight of words
Miscarriage? Still birth? Now the police will search your phone
The Evin Prison Bakers' Club
Sudanese women and the crisis of indifference
The cult of patriarchy (and how to resist it)
Women without kids
Ella Keidar released from prison

Women's Fightback #34, Summer 2025 — austerity, trans and reproductive rights, the fightback, more

Solidarity 531/Workers' Liberty 70 — Automation and the working class. Lead article, Automation and the working class, by Martin Thomas.
Article at: https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-01-14/automation-and-working-class

See also:
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-2-the-future-and-robots-hipster-reformism-and-the-technological-fix
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-4-marxs-telescope
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-5-the-great-foundation-stone-of-wealth

Full pamphlet at: https://workersliberty.org/WL70
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Automation

Automation 1 — Automation and the working class — lead article

How did the Corbyn surge of the last few years end up with Sir Kier Starmer as Labour Leader? And what should socialists be doing within Labour now? Duncan, an education worker from South London introduces the situation at a discussion group in April 2020. 

Upcoming meetings and more at https://workersliberty.org/c19-online

Video: https://youtu.be/gDV92V1NpHs

Starmer and the Labour Left — intro

At the end of May 2020, a group of casualised workers at Goldsmiths College, London announced they would be withdrawing their labour by taking part in a marking boycott, in response to a wave of redundancies, nonpayment for hours worked during lockdown and the management’s decision not to furlough staff. 

This conversation, recorded over Zoom, brings together five organisers of the wildcat strike to reflect on what made the action necessary, what its implications are for labour struggles in academia and beyond, and what its potential fallout- and future- will be.

Edited by Ash Reid.
Follow Justice for Workers [Goldsmiths] @ CleanersFor on Twitter
https://precariousatgold.wordpress.com/2020/09/23/goldsmiths-dispute-autumn-update/

The fee for this event was donated to Sistah Space.

Goldsmiths Wildcats in conversation

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Women's Fightback #34, Summer 2025 — austerity, trans and reproductive rights, the fightback, more

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