Women

WASPI women’s pensions were in surplus but RAIDED: restore our pensions

I love it when we women work together. A fellow WASPI has sent me the following illuminating submission to the Work and Pensions Committee from Rita Abrahams, which is crying out to be read far and wide. Ms Abrahams has done a sterling bit of detective work and calculated that not only are we NOT

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Osborne clobbers low paid freelancers and deals fresh blow to women born in the 1950s in Budget 2016

So you wanna be a writer?  Budget 2016: Low paid freelancers are likely to see their NICs INCREASE five-fold from Class 2 £2.80 pw to Class 3 £14.10 pw Women born in the 1950s have been truly gang-banged by George Osborne and his Tory cohort. While the rich saw their income triple since the 2008

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The left’s invisibility bomb: how’s that liberation thing working out for you?

Perhaps it’s unconscious and far from deliberate but there’s a set of prejudices in the Left that they just won’t confront. You can be a woman, non-white or working class but not all three at once or you get the INVISIBILITY BOMB exploded all over you. Feminist Camilla Power wrote to me earlier this month

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More SWP rape crisis accusations: “a dangerous environment to be in”

Read Anna Chen’s collection of poetry, Reaching for My Gnu, now an eBook. It’s International Women’s weekend, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) are having their special crisis conference tomorrow and more allegations of the crummy way the SWP treats their women members are coming to light. I’m reposting an updated version of my SWP Sex

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