Event
A one-day anti-capitalist feminist conference in London, including workshops, panels, films, and exhibitions. Called by Feminist Fightback, this conference will involve the collaboration of a host of different groups and individuals; including activists from the Anarcha-Fem Collective, Black Women's Rape Action Project, English Collective of Prostitutes, Feminist Activist Forum, Feminist Fightback, Left Women's Network, London Pro-Feminist Men's Group, London Third Wave Feminists, Permanent Revolution, Women Against Rape, and others.

The FAF feminist history group will participate with a project collecting the oral histories of women involved in Outwrite, the radical, anti-imperialist newspaper which ran from 1982 to 1988. We hope to have the first stage of a visual exhibition ready for the February conference.

How to get involved
There are many ways you can get involved: come to the monthly meetings; suggest or organise a workshop/panel/film; publicise the event; join the outwrite exhibition project; and volunteer for the day itself. Join the organising event e-list here.

Monthly Meetings
These are held at the Arbour Community Centre, 100 Shandy Street, Stepney Green, London. Free creche usually provided. Contact Rebecca on 07971719797 for directions, creche bookings, and further info. Meetings open to all.

Minutes from past meetings: May/June  July  August

Contact    anticapitalistfeministsATgmail.com

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Mission Statement
We are feminists who have come together from a number of groups to organise an event on 14th February 2009.  We are excited and energised by the current resurgence in feminist activism in the UK, but we think that the kind of feminist movement we build, and the kind of politics it has, matter.  

We are committed to an anti-capitalist feminism which sees the interconnections between all struggles against oppressions and against capitalism, and we want to build an event that creates an open space to discuss this and develop our ideas. But we don’t want to just talk about our politics – we want to fight to actually change the material conditions of women’s lives, to fight misogyny and our own exploitation, and to involve as many women and men as possible in the campaigns that will be at the centre of this event.

We want the joint event to provide us with a forum to come together, participate in open debate, develop strategies to work towards our common aims, network, make alliances and inspire each other to build a strong and  active  feminist movement. We need to unite to challenge women’s oppression and exploitation. We want to fight for the rights of all women - and that includes the rights of sex workers and 'illegal' migrants. 

We organise using non-hierarchical, consensus-based decision making. We recognise the power structures that exist among us, based on the inequalities of our society, which amplify some voices and marginalise others, and we will actively work to confront them. Decisions are taken at monthly meetings, which are open to feminists of all genders. There’s also the option to work autonomously in self-defined groups (e.g. women-only). We respect the fact that women have a diversity of experience and we see this as positive in that it enables us to learn from each other.

Key issues on which we want to organise:

* Defending and extending reproductive freedom

* Opposing rape and sexual abuse.

* Fighting racism and immigration controls

* Building solidarity between women workers.

* Challenging all forms of heterosexism and increasing our freedom of sexual expression.

* Struggles against capitalist exploitation.

We hope the event will provide us with a forum to come together, participate in open debate, learn from each other, develop strategies to work towards our common aims, make alliances and inspire each other to build a strong and active feminist movement from the bottom up.