Posts Tagged ‘Feminism’
Women’s Place UK : Whitewashing Zionism
Radical feminism gives cover to Israel’s brutal colonial oppression Guest post by Anita Patel Introduction This is a guest post by Anita Patel. It describes the inability of British and Western Feminism to come to terms with imperialist violence and Israeli settler colonialism. Western feminism has been co-opted into supporting imperialism and Islamaphobia in particular. Radical…
Read MoreAhed Tamimi Exposes the Refusal of Western Feminism to Come to Terms with Zionism and Imperialism
Aren’t Ahed and Nariman Tamimi women too? A few weeks ago I wrote an article Feminist silence over Ahed Tamimi exposes the racist consensus at the heart of western feminism. Little did I realise when I wrote it that it would be the most popular post in the decade since this blog began. It has…
Read MorePost on Ahed Tamimi and Feminist Silence is the first post to break the 100,000 barrier!
My recent post on Feminist silence over Ahed Tamimi exposes the racist consensus at the heart of western feminism – Show trial and gaol looms for 16 year old Palestinian girl for defending herself has become the first post in the 10 year history of this blog to achieve over 100,000 hits. I’m not sure why but……
Read MoreHattie Harman – The Useless‘Feminist’ & Acting Leader of the Labour Party
Hattie Harman Supports Tory Welfare & Benefit Cuts for the Poor Prime Opportunist – Bourgeois Feminist Hattie Jeremy Corbyn – the only Socialist in the Labour Leadership Campaign Harriet Harman represents all that is worst in New Labour feminism. Concern about a ‘glass ceiling’ preventing women from becoming company directors, exploiters and general parasites is…
Read MoreLEFT UNITY – Internal Strife and ‘Feminist’ Witchhunt
Personal Politics – the Divorce from Reality Left Unity – the group set up with such hope and optimism – has fallen foul to the same curse that has historically plagued the socialist and far-left of British politics – Sectarianism. The belief that one’s own petty concerns are of more importance than the wider movement…
Read MoreWhy I resigned from Left Unity
Feminists Brook no Debate on ‘Safe Spaces’ – Manchester Branch suspensions I resigned from Left Unity nearly a month ago. Set up in a blaze of publicity, it has fallen victim to identity politics and navel gazing. It reports that it has 2,000 members. If so they make next to no impact. There is no…
Read MoreLeft Unity Conference
A banner headline which didn’t match the strap lines Another Missed Opportunity as feminists and reformists link-up Left Unity is the brainchild and founding father, the distinguished socialist film maker Ken Loach who has produced more radical and socialist films that I can remember. Ken Loach – Left Unity’s guiding light According to its own…
Read MoreFeminists for Imperialism – Susan Nossel, PEN & Amnesty International USA
Truthdig Columnist Resigns from PEN over its appointment of a ‘Feminist’ Supporter of US Wars, Susan Nossel PEN International takes the toxic Nossel off the embarrassed hands of Amnesty International Emmeline Pankhurst – a predecessor of today’s feminist imperialist – handed the white feather to men who didn’t support the imperialist war in Europe (1914-18)…
Read MoreThe Self-Destruction of the Socialist Workers Party – Now is the Time for a New Left Party
Sexual Harassment & Alleged Rape Were the Symptoms Lack of Democracy was the Cause Martin Smith on the look-out for teenage SWP members? On Sunday March 10th an Emergency Meeting of the SWP voted to endorse the Central Committee’s [CC] handling of the allegations of rape and sexual harassment against Martin Smith ‘Comrade Delta’, as…
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