Events tagged with "Trade Union"
Political groups
Political activism in the seventies and eighties was not limited to women's, lesbian and gay rights. Many contributors got involved in other political movements of the times, including support for the miners' strikes, Troops out of Ireland, and vario...
Women's Liberation Movement
The Women's Liberation Movement, or Women's Movement, or feminism, is very closely linked with many lesbians' lives, particularly those coming to recognise or define themselves as lesbian during the 1970s and 1980s. There are so many contributions ...
Memories tagged with "Trade Union"
Communist Party lead on women’s rights
“The Communist Party was years ahead in acknowledging the fight for women and were all for abortion, there were always huge contingents of communists on the news talking about women's rights in one way or another. My first march was ‘Kill the Bill’, ...
Fighting at the Conference 1978
The Birmingham Women’s Liberation Conference 1978"The split happened in Birmingham at the Women's Liberation Conference between the radical revolutionary feminists, the dyke arm, and the socialist feminists, the political arm. One of the main beliefs...
Joining the Communist Party
"I finished college and went to night school to do a Sociology A level, where I met a woman who was in the Communist Partyand I just liked the things she was talking about politically. I obviously came from a Labour voting family, a Trade Union famil...
LGB Co-ordinator for Unison
Steve was an activist in the Trade Union movement in NALGO and UNISON, including being the national LGB co-ordinator for a number of years, then he changed job and location, and was back to square one – the Trade Union movement couldn’t cope with him...
Seeking Equality Through the WLM and the Unions
“It was 1972 and this was the year of my politicisation as a lesbian. After being involved in gay politics, through Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) I became part of the Women’s Liberation Movement. I had often fe...
Transformation from CHE to GLF 1971
Nick talks about the political and physical transition from CHE into the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in the early 70s. "Before we moved to the Peace Centre, our first place in Birmingham was the Quakers Meeting House, we met there for nearly two...
Women's discos in the 1990s came and went
“In the later 90s we used to hire the Union Club on Pershore Road for monthly women's discos, from around 1996/7. They were organised by a woman called Wash, who was in the Trade Union movement”. “There were two short-lived organisations, ‘Henrietta’...
Women’s Revolutions Per Minute (WRPM)
Women's Revolutions Per Minute (WRPM):“Music was my main occupation even though it didn’t make me any money. That happened because having been to the States I’d come back with some music, I’d been to the Michigan Music festival, and met the women who...
Working with men in the NUT
"My emphasis was on NUT (National Union of Teachers) politics as much as anything because by then I was well into the NUT which made me enemies in the Women's Liberation Movement because radical revolutionary feminists believe that you shouldn’t have...