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The Real Jessie Eden by Graham Stevenson
Inspirational biography of a fighter for the working class and women’s rights

FOR those engaged in the class struggle today for women’s emancipation, equal pay and the ending of discrimination in the workplace, for abortion rights and lives free of violence, accounts of brave women who joined the fight before us must never be forgotten.

Their political stories resonate with our struggles now and with our own family histories.

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