Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
IT’S astonishing the things you can learn on a brief visit to a new city.
Most of us know that Portsmouth, nicknamed Pompey, is famous for its military and maritime connections. Some among you might win a pub quiz by recognising it as the birthplace of Charles Dickens, or knowing that the city crest includes a unicorn with a fish tail. How many realise it was also the country’s “corsetry capital”?
It seems more than 7,000 women were employed, post World War II, in making corsets. It’s hard to image any image less feminist than this restricting, painful garment designed to gratify a “male gaze.”
KAY GREEN explains how the Middle East and colonialism were explored at at last weekend’s FiLiA conference
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Women’s Declaration International conference on feminist struggles from Britain to the Far East
Sisters came together last weekend for the landmark launch of a new women’s group. ROS SITWELL reports
ROS SITWELL reports from the Morning Star conference on ‘Race, Sex and Class Liberation’ last weekend



