Manchester Socialist Feminist Book Club: Bodies Under Siege

Join our Manchester Socialist Feminist Book Club, hosted by Workers' Liberty.

In our December meeting we'll be reading Sian Norris's Bodies Under Siege: How the Far Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global, with a paarticular focus on Chapter 4.

Please write to [email protected] for a PDF of the book.
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FROM THE BLURB: An exposé of how far-right extremists across Europe use attacks on abortion to introduce broader fascist politics--and their connections to the American far right, from a leading investigative journalist.

Think today's anti-abortion ideas are rooted in religious prohibitions or arguments about where life begins? Wrong: today's anti-abortion movements is largely financed and planned by far-right extremists. Many of them are avowedly fascist and white supremacist, afraid of a "great replacement" of the world's white population by other races, who are working hard to reshape governments and policies across Europe, North America and around the world. Much of this far-right organizing and funding network, however, has been overlooked by today's feminist and left movements.
As investigative journalist Sian Norris uncovers here, it is through attacking abortion rights that fascist ideas from the dark web, incel chat boards, and fringe organizations comes to enter mainstream debate -- and to then shape governmental policy across Europe, from authoritarian regimes like Hungary's to liberal democracies like Britain. As Norris goes undercover at anti-abortion activist meetings, and pieces together the money trail linking American think tanks to far-right fascist groups, she maps out the pipeline by which fascism has become respectable across the Global North by taking away women's reproductive rights and autonomy.

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ALL THE RAGE 2024

We are hosting a socialist feminist day school in Sheffield on 23 November. A full day of workshops and talks on the topic of class struggle feminism, followed by an after-party. Tickets are £5-10. For more information click here.

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