Tag: Nina Brown

Socialist Women, Womens Rights

150 join International Women’s Day rally in Leeds

The Leeds Women’s Strike Assembly organised a lunchtime walkout and an evening meeting. Socialist Party members and campaigners for Women’s Lives Matter participated, linking women’s struggle to ending austerity and fighting for socialism. We also helped to organise the day’s events. By Nina Brown, Leeds Socialist Party & Women’s Lives Matter Socialist Party member Amy Cousens spoke at the lunchtime rally from Women’s Lives Matter. … Continue reading 150 join International Women’s Day rally in Leeds

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Why I Joined

Joining the Socialist Party has helped me understand the world and how we can change it

Having been raised by lefty parents I felt strongly that I was ‘political’. I voted for the Greens in every election since I was 18. I even put a Green Party poster in my bedroom window. Nina Brown, Leeds Socialist Party Overhearing how my parents talked about Margaret Thatcher made me certain that Tories were bad, war was bad and the environment needed saving. I … Continue reading Joining the Socialist Party has helped me understand the world and how we can change it

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Anti-Cuts, Socialist Women, Womens Rights

They Cut Back & Privatise, We Fight Back & Organise – Women’s Lives Matter launched in Leeds

After it was reported by Labour MP, Harriet Harman, that services protecting women against domestic violence in Leeds have been cut by 59%, a public meeting was called to launch Women’s Lives Matter in Leeds. Members of Leeds Socialist Party have been actively supporting Women’s Live Matter campaign in Doncaster against the cuts to funding of the South Yorkshire Women’s Aid service (see recent article … Continue reading They Cut Back & Privatise, We Fight Back & Organise – Women’s Lives Matter launched in Leeds

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