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Feminist Fightback is a feminist anti-capitalist activist collective based in the UK which developed out of conferences in 2006 and 2007.[1][2]

Feminist Fightback are considered part of what some have called a "resurgence of feminist activism" in the UK.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

The group has camaigned on issues such as how women are disproportionately affected by austerity measures in the UK.[9]

Activism

In 2008, Feminist Fightback supported the London Underground cleaners who went on strike over a living wage, sick pay, 28 days holiday, final salary pension, free travel and an end to third party sackings.[10][11]

In 2009, Feminist Fightback was amongst a group of activists who dressed as bankers stage an occupation at the Department for Work and Pensions as a part of a week of action[12] against the Welfare Reform Act 2009.[13][14][15]

On 31 January 2015, Feminist Fightback, joined housing activists, unions and campaigners to march on Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London, in City Hall and to demand better housing for London. [16]

In 2017, Feminist Fightback supported the strike action by cleaners at the London School of Economics.[17]

Feminist Fightback is anti-austerity collective who argue that public sector cuts have a disproportionate effect on women.[18][19][20]

Feminist Fightback has supported the so-called Focus E15 Campaign in campaigning against the housing crisis[21][22] and lack of affordable housing available in the UK.

Feminist Fightback are amongst a number of groups, organisations and activists in the UK (including Calais Migrant Solidarity, No One Is Illegal, London No Borders) campaigning for migrants rights, freedom of movement for all and against draconian immigration controls.[23] They advocate the building of alliances among workers, migrant workers and refugees - arguing that "as feminists, we must fight against these dividing lines, against racism and against borders, for the independence and safety of all."[24]

Feminist Fightback have blockaded and disrupted pro-life demonstrations outside abortion clinichs[25]

Their article "Cuts Are a Feminist Issue"[26] featured in Issue 49 of the journal Soundings (published online by the New Left Project).[27]

References

  1. ^ "Campaigns - The F-Word". www.thefword.org.uk. 11 May 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Feminist Fightback". Feminist Fightback. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
  3. ^ Robinson, Victoria (2008). Introducing Gender And Women's Studies. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 46.
  4. ^ Wench Tactics? Openings in Conditions of Closure. Feminist Legal Studies. 2017.
  5. ^ Downes, Julia Downes (2008). Bound and Unbound: Interdisciplinary approaches to genders and sexualities. Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 181–200.
  6. ^ Thornham, Helen (2013). Renewing Feminisms: Radical Narratives, Fantasies and Futures in Media Studies.
  7. ^ Redfern, Catherine (2010). Reclaiming the F Word: The New Feminist Movement. Zed Books.
  8. ^ Dean, Jonathan (2010). Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 162.
  9. ^ "What mainstream politics can learn from the new wave of feminist activism". www.newstatesman.com. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  10. ^ Lossifidis, Alex (4 July 2008). "Feminism and the Tube". The News Statesman. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  11. ^ "Tube cleaners in 'fair wage' call". 16 July 2008. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  12. ^ "photo-report of protest against welfare reform bill". the commune. 9 March 2009. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  13. ^ "Bankers occupy the DWP". Feminist Fightback. 9 March 2009. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  14. ^ "Fat cats storm DWP | LabourList". LabourList | Labour's biggest independent grassroots e-network. 9 March 2009. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  15. ^ "Last Hours > Welfare Abolition Act – LCAP raid the DWP". www.archive.lasthours.org.uk. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  16. ^ Townsend, Mark; Kelly, Liam (31 January 2015). "Thousands gather in London to protest against lack of affordable housing". the Guardian. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  17. ^ "Supporting the LSE cleaner's strike from the picket lines - The F-Word". www.thefword.org.uk. 24 June 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  18. ^ Endnotes. "The Logic of Gender by Endnotes". endnotes.org.uk. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  19. ^ Davies, Helen (2016). Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture: Femininity, Masculinity and Recession in Film and Television.
  20. ^ "After Beyond the Fragments". www.redpepper.org.uk. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  21. ^ Pettifor, Ann (27 January 2018). "Why building more homes will not solve Britain's housing crisis | Ann Pettifor". the Guardian. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  22. ^ "March | 2017 | Focus E15 Campaign". focuse15.org. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  23. ^ English, Claire (2017). Safe Cracking: From Safe(r) Spaces to Collectivising Vulnerability in Migrant Solidarity Organising. Leicester: University of Leicester School of Business.
  24. ^ "Solidarity with Refugees and Migrants!". Feminist Fightback. 7 September 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  25. ^ "Defending the right of women to choose: abortion campaigners clash in London". Huck Magazine. 19 April 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  26. ^ "New Left Project | Cuts Are a Feminist Issue". www.newleftproject.org. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  27. ^ [1]
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