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FiLiA’s view on the planned cuts to disability benefits
FiLiA’s view on the planned cuts to disability benefits

Then once they've grown into women, the medical model dismisses women as exaggerating pain ‒ simply walking hysterical hormone sacks fainting at the slightest breeze. 

Maybe they grow up and find someone to love and support them? But abuse and exploitation of disabled women figures show they are more vulnerable and have fewer services available for them. There are less shelters; they are less able to just quickly jump on a free train and escape and risk losing the services and medication they need. 

BlogMICHELLE KERWINClass Politics, Disability, EcoFeminism
Marching for Our Sisters - Million Women Rise
Marching for Our Sisters - Million Women Rise

As FiLiA volunteers, our group consisted of women from different parts of the world. Some of us grew up believing that sex-based violence was mainly an African issue, shaped by the struggles in our home countries. The UK, after all, prides itself on human rights and women’s rights. But as we stood among thousands of women, each carrying their own stories of pain and survival, we realised a harsh truth: violence against women knows no borders.

BlogMICHELLE KERWINSex-Based Rights, Class Politics, Anti-racism, Global
Sex and Gender in Trump’s America
Sex and Gender in Trump’s America

We all know how we got here. The failure of the left to address the gender identity activism gave this extraordinary open goal to the right. It was all predictable; we predicted it. Now we’re here.

This does not absolve us from thinking critically about the harmful consequences of working with Christian Right groups, including the ADF and the Heritage Foundation, which are coalition partners in Project 2025.

BlogMICHELLE KERWINGlobal, Sex-Based Rights, Reproductive Rights, Class Politics, Violence Against Women
FiLiA Trade Union Women’s Network - Join us!
FiLiA Trade Union Women’s Network - Join us!

Women have been key to the success of the trade union, and they have reaped huge benefits from the collective successes of the wider labour movement. However, too often, the movement has let women down.

We want to change that.

Join the FiLiA Trade Union Women's Network and help us make unions work for women.

BlogMICHELLE KERWINClass Politics
Unions and the Labour Party for Women - Kiri Tunks
Unions and the Labour Party for Women - Kiri Tunks

Kiri Tunks is a veteran trade union and women's rights activist @‌kiritunks

This blog is based on a speech made by Kiri Tunks on behalf of the FiLiA Trade Union Project at a Labour Women’s Declaration fringe at the 2024 Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. In it, Kiri argues that women need to be at the head and the heart of the labour and trade union movement.

BlogMICHELLE KERWINSexual Exploitation Industries, Violence Against Women, Class Politics, Reproductive Rights
Unions for Women by Kiri Tunks
Unions for Women by Kiri Tunks

Women are rightly critical of trade unions. Sexism and misogyny abounds and Women raising concerns about their sex-based rights have been, at best, ignored and at worst vilified and attacked. Many Women now feel that unions are working in opposition to our rights. But trade unions remain a powerful force within UK society and Women make up the majority of the membership. Can we make the union movement work for us?

MICHELLE KERWINSex-Based Rights, Class Politics
Reflections on the 4th World Congress for the Abolition of Prostitution
Reflections on the 4th World Congress for the Abolition of Prostitution

This piece combines the reflections of FiLiA’s Anti-Prostitution Lead Luba Fein and FiLiA’s Spokeswoman Raquel Rosario Sánchez after participating in the 4 th World Congress to Abolish Prostitution. The Congress was organised by CAP International, Canadian-based organisation La Cles, Breaking Free, the Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter and the EVA Centre. At the end of the Congress, the organisations launched the Montreal’s Call for the Abolition of Prostitution, which is signed by more than 60 organisations.

BlogDittany RoseClass Politics, Global, Sexual Exploitation Industries, Violence Against Women
The first female president of Mexico
The first female president of Mexico

Mexican women and men went to their polling stations, the overwhelming majority to vote for a woman to be the next President of Mexico. A woman in charge of a State, which has miserably failed, so far, to guarantee a dignified life for women. Despite national laws, and international treaties, in Mexico women are not free from violence. Every day, the lives of over 64.5 million women in this country are plagued by femicide, and all kinds of violence: sexual, political, economic, reproductive, institutional, symbolic and structural.

 

BlogDittany RoseGlobal, Class Politics
Interview with Yasmin Morais, founder of project Vulva Negra
Interview with Yasmin Morais, founder of project Vulva Negra

Yasmin Morais is the founder of Vulva Negra, the first materialist feminist project ‘born from the desire to unite the materialist perspective of radical feminism with the narratives of black theorists and the lived experience of black Brazilian and Afro-Latin women.’ Yasmin travels around Brazil and the world with her itinerant lectures at the ‘Encontro Feminista Vulva Negra’ (Vulva Negra Feminist Meeting).

In this interview, Andreia Nobre talks to Yasmin Morais about the many pressing issues currently affecting Brazilian women, including femicide, domestic violence and the plight of black and brown women in a Latin American country, despite the country having been under a leftist government since Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was elected for office in 2022 for the third time.

BlogDittany RoseSex-Based Rights, Class Politics, Violence Against Women
Women Learning Manual Skills
Women Learning Manual Skills

On UN International Day of Education, Rose Rickford shares what she has learnt from researching women's skills sharing projects of 1970s-90s Britain. Across the world, women are still systematically excluded from learning and using a whole range of manual skills. Even in countries with relatively high levels of educational equity, vocational training is still almost entirely sex-segregated. While young women learn care and beauty skills, young men learn construction and manufacturing skills. When it comes to getting work, jobs in skills that men learn are much better paid, so this is an important issue for women's equality. Part of the solution is of course to pay higher wages for the skills that women train in. But another part is to increase women’s participation in skills they are currently excluded from. In the 1970s-90s, women set up their own courses and projects to teach one another these skills. For those who took part, it was a doorway to a world they were previously locked out from.

BlogDittany RoseClass Politics
Working women in struggle
Working women in struggle

This article highlights the importance of trade unions to Women throughout history up to the present day. The right to strike is being repressed by regressive legislation called the Minimum Service Levels bill and women need to organise within their unions to fight back

BlogDittany RoseClass Politics, Global
How the ISS Workers Won
How the ISS Workers Won

Our ISS striking women are showing every worker how real trade unionism is done. Their inspiring struggle has set an example for the entire labour and trade union movement to follow. It’s working-class women like this who have the most to lose from the attacks on pay, conditions and public services and who have the most to gain from getting organized in the unions and fighting back. Women who are prepared to to get properly organized in their workplaces are the ones who will genuinely shape working conditions for future generations and stop society from slipping into barbarism.

BlogSara DahlenClass Politics, Representation
The disproportionate impact of hunger on women
The disproportionate impact of hunger on women

It is often said that women are the ‘shock absorbers’ of poverty. More likely to live in poverty, managing tight budgets and going without to protect others from hardship. New research from the Trussell Trust has laid bare the scale of hunger across the country, the disproportionate impact it has on women and how we can change it.

BlogJ SteinClass Politics
A Women’s Strike Wave
A Women’s Strike Wave

Lindsey German writes about the socialist origins of International Women's Day and its links to current trade unionism. She discusses the many reasons for women to join unions and argues that one result of this present strike wave will be more union membership across the board.

BlogSara DahlenClass Politics
Statement of solidarity with Mexican feminists
Statement of solidarity with Mexican feminists

This piece highlights the institutional violence and contempt with which Mexican authorities treat women and feminist activists all over the country, while femicides, rapes, and trafficking are on the rise. With this piece, we are building solidarity across borders with other feminists to send the message that they are not alone and that the world is watching how Mexican women are being punished for standing up against male violence.

StatementsJ SteinGlobal, Class Politics, Violence Against Women
#169 Making Feminist History Visible: Women’s Archives and Records
#169 Making Feminist History Visible: Women’s Archives and Records

In this pilot episode of FiLiA’s new women’s history podcast series, we bring together four feminists from around the world to have an international and intergenerational conversation about the importance of women’s archives. We speak to American historian Max Dashu, Indian artist and activist Aqui Thami, and Algerian archivists Lydia Saïdi and Awel Haouati. Facilitated by Bec Wonders and translated by Natalya Vince.

PodcastJ SteinGlobal, Anti-racism, Class Politics
The Rich Go to Rehab, The Poor Go to Prison
The Rich Go to Rehab, The Poor Go to Prison

In this article, Rona Epstein argues that current anti-social legislation is unjust and should be repealed. It is a prime example of the criminal justice system being misused to punish the poor, the disadvantaged, the most damaged and despised, and the least supported people in our society. Instead, imprisonment should be restricted to only those who have broken criminal law.

BlogJ SteinClass Politics