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Lynne Walsh
REMARKABLE: The Danish writer Karen Blixen as a recipient of
International Women's Day 2025 / 8 March 2025
8 March 2025
With most of recorded history dominated by the voices of men, LYNNE WALSH encourages sisters to read the memoirs of women – and to write their own too
© Laura Dodsworth
International Women's Day 2025 / 8 March 2025
8 March 2025
LYNNE WALSH attempts to unravel the latest advice from local authorities on tackling violence against women and girls
A unit of the Bulgarian International Brigade, 1937
Features / 25 January 2025
25 January 2025
Anti-fascists from around the world will soon be travelling to Spain to commemorate the International Brigades and walk in the footsteps of the bravest of their generation, writes LYNNE WALSH
Mannequins
Features / 17 November 2024
17 November 2024
From prostitution to surrogacy, access to women’s bodies can be bought for a fee. LYNNE WALSH reports from a conference exploring the mounting crisis in which women are increasingly seen as products to be consumed
A Chartist mosaic in Rogerstone, Newport
Features / 13 September 2024
13 September 2024
LYNNE WALSH reports from the recent ‘Chartism Day’ conference at Reading University, where sisters of the 19th century Chartist struggle emerged from the pages of history
Gunda Schumann
Features / 3 August 2024
3 August 2024
LYNNE WALSH reports from a recent conference in London organised by the Women’s Declaration International
Maya and co
Features / 17 July 2024
17 July 2024
LYNNE WALSH reports on discussions among feminist campaigners and a recent Swansea University event
PCS International Brigades
Features / 7 July 2024
7 July 2024
This year’s International Brigade Memorial Trust commemoration took on an urgent tone, with warnings of ‘terrifying wave of fascism’ in Europe drawing parallels between 1930s Spain and today, reports LYNNE WALSH
lives
Theatre Review / 13 June 2024
13 June 2024
LYNNE WALSH relishes a sweetly anarchic hour of dance and acrobatics, underscored by a big theme 
iceland
Photography / 26 April 2024
26 April 2024
LYNNE WALSH’S choice are photographers prepared to focus on the outcomes of the politics of exclusion
griffiths
Appreciation / 5 April 2024
5 April 2024
LYNNE WALSH celebrates the prescient political dramas of Trevor Griffiths, playwright, screenwriter and Marxist, born April 4 1935; died March 29 2024
clarion
Theatre review / 21 March 2024
21 March 2024
LYNNE WALSH recommends an outstanding production with the zeal to tell stories of our socialist past