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Feminists are failing Muslim women by supporting racist French laws

By Christine Delphy Is mainstream French feminism racist? I co-founded Nouvelles Questions Feministes (New Feminist Issues) with Simone de Beauvoir in 1977 and have long been involved with Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (MLF) but increasingly, it’s clear to me that French attitudes towards the hijab and Muslim women are not just incomprehensible, but reprehensible. The …

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Burn Frontex! Freedom for everyone!

This Tuesday June 30th, in the wake of a summit in Brussels during which European leaders debated the fates of thousands of migrants attempting to reach European soil, six activists from the feminist anti-capitalist collective LilithS travelled to the Warsaw headquarters of Frontex– the powerful meta-organization responsible for coordinating the defense of Fortress Europe– whereupon …

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Συνέντευξη με Σύριες Γυναίκες λίγο πριν την βίαιη μεταφορά τους στην Πέτρου Ράλλη.

interview on 0151 magazine 0151: How long is it since you’ve been here? Fatime: 4 months How did you get here? I came to Greece with an inflatable boat and nearly died. Which island did you first reach? Rhodes Did all your fellow travellers on the inflatable boat live? They damaged the inflatable so that …

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War, social crisis and Greek women

There has been a large participation of feminists in European Left’s Summer University, that took place in July 23-27 ner Berlin. EL-Fem, the party’s section about Feminist policy, hosted 4 workshops, in cooperation with women’s organizations and activists from all over Europe: Genderday: Feminizing of class-struggles – feminist resistance Women from Greece, Poland, Ukraine, Denmark, …

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