This weeks meeting: Do we need a new women's movement?

This weeks branch meeting will be:

Do We Need a New Women's Movement?

with Judith Orr

7.30pm, Kitap Evi Bookshop, Tottenham High Street
Nearest Tube Seven Sisters

Many mainstream commentators believe that women have acheived formal equality with men, and that now the corridors of power are open to an elite, there is no longer a need for a movement of the kind which grew throughout the 60s and 70s.

These days calls for women's equality are more likely to be directed against the enemies of Western society. George Bush, that great feminist liberator who came to power promising to take away the right of women across America to control their own fertility, used the treatment of women as one of the foundations for his disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Come to the meeting to discuss whether the women's movement is still relevant in our times, and how feminists can respond to the hijacking of the idea of liberation by warmongers.