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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
machine
Theatre review / 8 March 2024
8 March 2024
LYNNE WALSH swoons over a remarkable musical that charts the changing occupiers of a brutalist block in Sheffield
Protesters during a Million Women Rise march from Oxford Str
International Women's Day 2024 / 8 March 2024
8 March 2024
LYNNE WALSH gets the view from the ground about the relentless tide of misogyny affecting women, young or old – and asks when we’re going to get angry enough to do something about it
cable st
Theatre review / 27 February 2024
27 February 2024
LYNNE WALSH applauds an exceptional piece of theatre that pits the BUF against the heroes of Cable Street
cable street
Interview / 13 February 2024
13 February 2024
LYNNE WALSH interviews writer Alex Kanefsky and designer Yoav Segal about their new musical, Cable Street
dave
Features / 10 February 2024
10 February 2024
LYNNE WALSH pays tribute to a brilliant organiser and fearless campaigner, who died last month aged 64
Mannequins
Features / 20 November 2023
20 November 2023
LYNNE WALSH reports from a conference exposing the reality for women caught up in the porn industry, where rape, torture, degradation and fear are the norm – and where victims are told this is ‘liberating’
INVITING A RESPONSE: The Buying Her film screening in centra
Features / 2 June 2023
2 June 2023
LYNNE WALSH reports from the launch of a new film on the sex industry, but warns of discomfort over a focus on the stories of male ‘sex buyers’, rather than female victims
Foodbank
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2023 / 6 March 2023
6 March 2023
With the cost-of-living crisis showing no signs of abating, LYNNE WALSH talks to women about their experiences with foodbanks and ‘managing finances’ – and discovers some pathbreaking work on poverty being carried out by the Smallwood Trust
Actor and disability rights activist Liz Carr campaigning ag
Features / 17 January 2023
17 January 2023
With Parliament currently consulting the public on assisted suicide policy, LYNNE WALSH explores the issues and talks to a disability rights activist who warns of troubling stereotypes of disabled people distorting the debate
John McHale, First Contact, 1958 Collection Albright-Knox Ar
Exhibition / 11 April 2022
11 April 2022
LYNNE WALSH is thrilled by an exhibition of post-war British art
Uncontrollable women
Book Review / 9 April 2022
9 April 2022
LYNNE WALSH says a powerful book by Nan Sloane is a keeper that will reward reading and rereading
UCS
Theatre Review / 20 March 2022
20 March 2022
LYNNE WALSH recommends an uplifting musical narrative of Glasgow shipyards’ struggles past that is perfectly fit for the challenges of today
Enough campaign video
Features / 7 March 2022
7 March 2022
LYNNE WALSH is unimpressed by the latest wazzackry from the government
yes ucs
Culture / 17 February 2022
17 February 2022
No means no
Features / 15 January 2022
15 January 2022
The Home Office has been trumpeting new phone software that allows a ‘guardian’ to track women’s movements in an attempt to protect them while out and about. LYNNE WALSH chats to the experts for their views
cover PS
Culture / 6 December 2021
6 December 2021
From a legendary folk singer to a visceral new play and a stunning sculptor
sappho+
Exhibition / 22 November 2021
22 November 2021
LYNNE WALSH faces the ‘brilliant or bonkers’ conundrum of a simultaneous exhibition of work by Jeff Koons and Cy Twombly
shehe
Theatre Review / 10 November 2021
10 November 2021
FiLiA
Features / 20 October 2021
20 October 2021
LYNNE WALSH reports from two action-packed and emotional days at FiLiA conference in Portsmouth
FiLiA
Features / 13 September 2021
13 September 2021
LYNNE WALSH looks ahead to the biggest radical feminist conference in Europe, FiLiA, which takes place over two days in October
Greenham
Features / 27 August 2021
27 August 2021
Lynne Walsh chats to ‘Greenham woman’ SUE LENT about the 40th anniversary of the groundbreaking anti-nuclear action, and women’s recreation today of the legendary march from Cardiff to the Berkshire missile base
Welsh banner Spanish Civil War
Features / 4 July 2021
4 July 2021
LYNNE WALSH tells the story of the Welsh international brigaders featured on a new banner that had its first outing last weekend
Trauma woman
Features / 14 June 2021
14 June 2021
LYNNE WALSH reports from a recent webinar organised by Nordic Model Now! where contributors explored the best ways to support the vulnerable and traumatised women coerced into prostitution
churchyard
Features / 19 May 2021
19 May 2021
LYNNE WALSH reports on this year's Levellers’ Day