We need political feminism
ON 5 November, activists from Education Not for Sale Women attended FEM 05, the second “FEM” conference and pretty much the only large-scale event on feminist politics to have been organised in the last few years. Since the collapse of the women’s movement there has been a general lack of discussion and activity on the question of women's liberation. NUS Women’s Campaign has historically been a bastion of campaigning socialist feminist politics, but since its capture by Labour Students and “independent” right-wingers in the last two years, its activity has declined dramatically. FEM 05 was...