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Features / 11 August 2025
Inspiring women who won’t shut up
11 August 2025

LYNNE WALSH reports from the Women’s Declaration International conference on feminist struggles from Britain to the Far East

Caroline Darian / Pic: Olivier Roller
Features / 6 June 2025
‘Faced with the unthinkable, the unbearable, we must fight back’
6 June 2025

Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisele Pelicot, took part in a conversation with Afua Hirsch at London’s Royal Geographical Society. LYNNE WALSH reports 

Demonstrators during an anti-racism protest organised by Sta
Antifascism / 7 May 2025
Resistance never sleeps: confronting fascism’s long shadow over history
7 May 2025

This year’s Bristol Radical History Festival focused on the persistent threats of racism, xenophobia and, of course, our radical collective resistance to it across Ireland and Britain, reports LYNNE WALSH 

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Features / 22 April 2025
History that teaches resistance not conformity
22 April 2025

LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend

REMARKABLE: The Danish writer Karen Blixen as a recipient of
International Women's Day 2025 / 8 March 2025
Women’s words speak volumes
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
International Women's Day 2025 / 8 March 2025
Being an ‘active bystander’ – what does it mean?
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
The spirit of Jarama will never die
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
Features / 17 November 2024
Women for sale – but at what cost?
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
Life as a ‘Lady Insurrectionist’
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 gives a perspective from Germany, where lesbi
Features / 3 August 2024
Women’s rights – tackling the difficult issues
3 August 2024
LYNNE WALSH reports from a recent conference in London organised by the Women’s Declaration International
Caroline Ffiske of Women Uniting, Heather Binning from the W
Features / 17 July 2024
Outspoken Women: how campaigners for sex-based rights see their priorities under a new government
17 July 2024
LYNNE WALSH reports on discussions among feminist campaigners and a recent Swansea University event
LESSONS OF THE PAST: PCS general secretary Fran Heathcote ad
Features / 7 July 2024
Anti-fascists remember the International Brigades as the far right stalks Europe once more
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
DANCE ME: Jo Fong and George Orange in The Rest of Our Lives
Theatre Review / 13 June 2024
Clown jewels
13 June 2024
LYNNE WALSH relishes a sweetly anarchic hour of dance and acrobatics, underscored by a big theme 
(L to R) Juliette Pavy: Spiralkampagnen, 2024. An X-ray show
Photography / 26 April 2024
Instead of a thousand words
26 April 2024
LYNNE WALSH’S choice are photographers prepared to focus on the outcomes of the politics of exclusion
Appreciation / 5 April 2024
‘The traditions of the labour movement were inadequate to take the struggle further’
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
MASTERY: Neil Gore in Behold Ye Ramblers
Theatre review / 21 March 2024
Read all about it!
21 March 2024
LYNNE WALSH recommends an outstanding production with the zeal to tell stories of our socialist past
SHEFFIELD HIGH-RISE: The cast of Standing at the Sky's Edge
Theatre review / 8 March 2024
Machine for living
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
Sexism – ‘it’s suffocating and exhausting’
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
The cast of Cable Street, the musical
Theatre review / 27 February 2024
Exuberant anti-fascist musical
27 February 2024
LYNNE WALSH applauds an exceptional piece of theatre that pits the BUF against the heroes of Cable Street
VETERAN ANTI-FASCIST: (Left) Ubby Cowan, veteran of the batt
Interview / 13 February 2024
Celebrating Cable Street
13 February 2024
LYNNE WALSH interviews writer Alex Kanefsky and designer Yoav Segal about their new musical, Cable Street
LGSM ‘ORIGINALS’: (L to R) Dave Lewis and Martin Goodsel
Features / 10 February 2024
Remembering Dave Lewis: core member of Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners
10 February 2024
LYNNE WALSH pays tribute to a brilliant organiser and fearless campaigner, who died last month aged 64
Features / 20 November 2023
Neoliberal hell for women
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
A window on prostitution
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
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2023 / 6 March 2023
Poverty, wonder-working and turnips
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
Help to die? Or help to live?
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
Postwar Modern: a lovingly created show with touches of the sublime
11 April 2022
LYNNE WALSH is thrilled by an exhibition of post-war British art
Book Review / 9 April 2022
Uncontrollable Women
9 April 2022
LYNNE WALSH says a powerful book by Nan Sloane is a keeper that will reward reading and rereading
TERRIFIC: Heather Gourdie as Eddy and Janie Thomson as Aggy
Theatre Review / 20 March 2022
‘Come with us, run with us, we’re gonna change the world’
20 March 2022
LYNNE WALSH recommends an uplifting musical narrative of Glasgow shipyards’ struggles past that is perfectly fit for the challenges of today
Features / 7 March 2022
Gesture politics doesn’t save women’s lives
7 March 2022
LYNNE WALSH is unimpressed by the latest wazzackry from the government
Two women workers, in an industry facing closure, are drawn
Culture / 17 February 2022
Upper Clyde Shipbuilders’ Work-In reflected in a musical drama
17 February 2022
Features / 15 January 2022
Harassment of women: an app is no substitute for real safety
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
Culture / 6 December 2021
2021 arts round-up with LYNNE WALSH
6 December 2021
From a legendary folk singer to a visceral new play and a stunning sculptor
POLES APART: (L to R) Cy Twombly’s Five Greek Poets and a
Exhibition / 22 November 2021
Never the twain shall meet?
22 November 2021
LYNNE WALSH faces the ‘brilliant or bonkers’ conundrum of a simultaneous exhibition of work by Jeff Koons and Cy Twombly
SPELLBINDING: Rachael Rooney
Theatre Review / 10 November 2021
A beguiling Northern Irish Scheherazade
10 November 2021
Features / 20 October 2021
A weekend of tears, laughter – and feminism
20 October 2021
LYNNE WALSH reports from two action-packed and emotional days at FiLiA conference in Portsmouth
Features / 13 September 2021
Get set for ‘radfem Glastonbury’
13 September 2021
LYNNE WALSH looks ahead to the biggest radical feminist conference in Europe, FiLiA, which takes place over two days in October
Sue Lent with the late Mary Crofton at the end of the 1983 S
Features / 27 August 2021
The spirit of Greenham rises again
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
A new banner honouring the Welsh volunteers who fought in th
Features / 4 July 2021
A new tribute to the volunteers for liberty in Spain
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
Features / 14 June 2021
‘The sex trade teaches you that you’re not even human’
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
PRINCIPLED: (L to R) Commemorative plaque at Burford churchy
Features / 19 May 2021
The legacy of the Levellers as pertinent as ever
19 May 2021
LYNNE WALSH reports on this year's Levellers’ Day
Jimmy Jump standing (second from right) with other British v
BOOKS / 24 March 2021
The Fighter Fell in Love: A Spanish Civil War Memoir
24 March 2021
Engaging personal account of international brigader sheds new light on seminal conflict
Peggy Seeger and (right) with Paul Robeson in Trafalgar Squa
INTERVIEW / 18 March 2021
‘Do anything to make the whole word listen’
18 March 2021
The great folk artist and activist PEGGY SEEGER is about to release a new album and here she talks to Lynne Walsh about its themes and the importance of speaking out about women's oppression, the environment and the survival of the arts post-Covid
BOOKS / 5 March 2021
Robins takes the biscuit
5 March 2021
LYNNE WALSH recommends an engaging graphic novel about sisterhood and the city
Feminist academic Selina Todd (left) and Labour's John McDon
Features / 13 February 2021
Escaping poverty and inequality is an ‘aspiration’ that can unite us
13 February 2021
Earlier this week John McDonnell chatted with feminist academic Selina Todd via Zoom about her new book on social mobility, and its themes of class, education and the struggle for a more egalitarian world. LYNNE WALSH reports
PRONE TO MALFUNCTION: Prime Minister Boris Johnson plays wit
Features / 6 December 2020
‘Capitalists tend to adopt technologies only as and when they suit their purposes’
6 December 2020
LYNNE WALSH reports on the Future of Work event at the weekend, which saw a panel of expert speakers discuss automation, deskilling and the effects of Covid-19 on the workplace
Pic: YCL
Features / 2 December 2020
Claudia Jones made a way out of no way
2 December 2020
LYNNE WALSH reports on a meeting celebrating the huge contribution black communist Claudia Jones made to the struggle for socialism and racial equality in the US and in Britain
Vivienne Hayes, CEO of Women’s Resource Centre
Features / 23 November 2020
One of the ‘world’s best-kept secrets’ on women’s rights
23 November 2020
Lynne Walsh talks to VIVIENNE HAYES of renowned charity the Women’s Resource Centre about the UN convention known as Cedaw – and why it deserves a higher profile
Features / 5 October 2020
A powerful message from Cable Street for today
5 October 2020
LYNNE WALSH reports on the Communist Party of Britain and Young Communist League’s special events to mark the 84th anniversary of the famous East End routing of Oswald Mosley’s fascists
FIERCE ON POLITICS: Jeremy Hardy
BOOKS / 6 September 2020
Jeremy Hardy Speaks Volumes
6 September 2020
Brilliant comic cuts from a true national treasure
Features / 2 August 2020
Communists celebrate 100 years of fighting for socialism
2 August 2020
The Communist Party of Britain’s centenary celebrations were a huge success under the extraorinary circumtances of the coronavirus lockdown, writes LYNNE WALSH
ON A JOURNEY: Wonder Fools
ONLINE THEATRE / 2 July 2020
549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War
2 July 2020
Dynamic young theatre company commemorates the International Brigades
TIME HAS COME: Detail from Ralph Griffin’s Eagle (1988), p
PREVIEWS / 18 June 2020
Arts ahead
18 June 2020
The courage to resist, from WWI pacifists to civil rights activists in America's Deep South
UNMISSABLE: Yuli
PREVIEWS / 1 June 2020
Arts Ahead
1 June 2020
Online essentials, from Cardiff to Cuba
SUPERB: Greek artists perform in Athens in support of Turki
PREVIEWS / 22 May 2020
Arts ahead
22 May 2020
Inspirational acts of solidarity in France and Greece
UPLIFTING: Janis Ian's song gives hope for the future
PREVIEWS / 15 May 2020
Arts Ahead
15 May 2020
Licking the lockdown: better times to come with music, talks, photography, drama and opera
LOVELY SPACE: Cells of Life by Charles Jencks at Jupiter Art
PREVIEWS / 8 May 2020
Arts Ahead
8 May 2020
Virtual sculpture tours in Scotland, groovy geezers and the 'female gaze' online
METAPHOR: Nest by Karin Mear, online at Cynon Valley Museum
PREVIEWS / 1 May 2020
Arts Ahead
1 May 2020
Online pleasures, from the opening bars of 2001 to a theatre show, a music festival and a soap-opera rolled into one
Deborah Lavin
Features / 24 April 2020
Deborah Lavin: socialist historian and actor who will be much missed
24 April 2020
THEATRE / 18 March 2020
Love, Love, Love Lyric Hammersmith London
18 March 2020
Caustic comedy on fraught divisions between baby-boomers and Generation X
MODERNIST MOMENT: Maggie Steed (left) in rehearsal for The C
Interview / 10 February 2020
On the cutting edge
10 February 2020
JACK SHEPHERD tells Lynne Walsh why he's written a play about what's happened to the modernist movement in art
Features / 7 February 2020
Standing up for women and girls
7 February 2020
At last weekend’s Woman’s Place UK event, grassroots feminist activism was flourishing, writes LYNNE WALSH
Researcher Maya Forstater on stage at the event, Pragna Pat
Features / 2 February 2020
Women’s liberation bursts back onto the scene
2 February 2020
Almost 1,000 women packed out University College London at the weekend to discuss their sex-based rights as part of a rejuvenated and growing movement. LYNNE WALSH reports
FUNNY AND FERAL: Mandy (Eve Steel) and Neil (Neil Bell) in T
Interview / 24 January 2020
‘Heroin came in and swallowed whole cities’
24 January 2020
ED EDWARDS has first-hand experience of the hard-drug epidemic ravaging communities and he's written an outstanding play about it. Lynne Walsh reports
Understated menace: Roshana Roberts as Iago
Theatre / 15 November 2019
No-holds Bard
15 November 2019
LYNNE WALSH sees a spot-on adaptation of Shakespeare's works which confronts the thorny issue of exclusion in schools
School desk weaponised: Trojan Horse
Theatre / 8 November 2019
Acute lesson on Islamophobia
8 November 2019
This inside story of 'The Trojan Horse' controversy in a Birmingham school is a must-see, says LYNNE WALSH
Mesmerising: Siobhan Redmond with Cyril Nri in Vassa
Theatre Review / 1 November 2019
Vassa, Almeida Theatre London
1 November 2019
Russian Revolution conspicuous by its absence in production of Maxim Gorky's 1910 family drama
Features / 3 October 2019
Fighting for the substance of feminism
3 October 2019
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Radfem Collective’s annual conference
Deadly duo: Rob Goll and Louise Faulkner in rehearsal
Theatre Review / 30 September 2019
A class act
30 September 2019
In an era of cuts to drama education, the Dickens Theatre Company is providing a vital service with its schools tour of Macbeth, says LYNNE WALSH
Slave relations: Tom (Elliot Cowan) and Anjana Vasan (Nora)
Theatre Review / 15 September 2019
A Doll’s House, Lyric Hammersmith
15 September 2019
Acute adaptation of Ibsen's exploration of a woman trapped by her biology
Homeless World Cup Santiago 2014
Features / 26 July 2019
‘We need to stop “othering” homeless people’
26 July 2019
With the Homeless World Cup heading to Cardiff today, Lynne Walsh chats to the head of Shelter Cymru JOHN PUZEY
Football / 26 July 2019
The Homeless World Cup — Mwy na gem
26 July 2019
Lynne Walsh previews the football tournament that is “more than a game” and speaks to the people involved, from players to founders, about forcing a change
Rooted in Wac: Che Walker
Interview / 16 July 2019
‘People are catching up to what Wac Arts has been doing’
16 July 2019
CHE WALKER talks to Lynne Walsh about a unique training project in performance and media which is a beacon of diversity and innovation
Interview / 27 June 2019
‘We want to challenge the people who have influence’
27 June 2019
Theatre director JOLLEY GOSNOLD tells Lynne Walsh why he's bringing an Ibsen classic bang up to date
Sparkling: Lesley Ewen as Amanda with Michael Abubakar as To
Theatre Review / 26 June 2019
Fragile Glass
26 June 2019
Tennessee Williams’s play is a reminder of the precarious existence of many in the US of the inter-war years, says LYNNE WALSH
KNOW THY ENEMY: National women’s demonstration against pit
Features / 11 June 2019
Women and the miners' strike – a fresh look at our history
11 June 2019
Recent research projects seek to re-examine the role of women during the 1984-5 miners’ strike by focusing on fact rather than prevailing formulaic imagery created by the media at the time. LYNNE WALSH reports
Spot on: Leah Harvey and Shiloh Coke 
Theatre Review / 5 May 2019
Issues with Island race relations
5 May 2019
There are troubling flaws in the stage adaptation of Andrea Levy's nuanced account of the Windrush generation experience, says LYNNE WALSH
Doomed lovers: Beru Tessema (Gaveston) and Tom Stuart (Edwar
Theatre Review / 3 April 2019
Edward II, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London
3 April 2019
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown in Christopher Marlowe’s uneven tragedy Edward II
Mesmerising: Aoife Lennon
Theatre Review / 29 March 2019
Killymuck, The Bunker, London
29 March 2019
The voice of the underclass rings out loud and clear in a challenging denunciation of the poverty trap
International Women's Day / 4 March 2019
Barriers still remain for women in the media
4 March 2019
From sexual harassment, to ageism, to having your ideas discounted by men, it’s tough being a female journalist today, says LYNNE WALSH
Surviving abuse: Lydia Higginson
Culture / 3 March 2019
Theatre Review: dressed
3 March 2019
Rousing: Bryony Purdue and Rowan Godel
Culture / 25 February 2019
Theatre review: Nothing to lose but their chains
25 February 2019
LYNNE WALSH sees an inspirational production celebrating a landmark women's strike
Stereotypes on stage: Welcome to the UK
Theatre Review / 30 January 2019
Refugee drama unwelcome in its ineptness
30 January 2019
Karen Ingala Smith, of nia, speaks at the meeting
Features / 25 January 2019
Feminists call for a rational debate on gender and the law
25 January 2019
At a packed meeting of A Woman’s Place UK, feminists made clear the importance of sex-specific laws and research and the danger posed by muddled reforms, report LYNNE WALSH and ROS SITWELL
Features / 23 January 2019
The Domestic Abuse Bill fails women
23 January 2019
Charities working with the victims of domestic abuse have criticised the government’s draft domestic abuse Bill this week, and say children will still be at risk, writes LYNNE WALSH
Rowan Godel (left) with (right) Bryony Purdue
Interview / 7 January 2019
Unchained melodies
7 January 2019
NEIL GORE talks to Lynne Walsh about a rousing new musical show on a groundbreaking women's strike
Learning curve: Dermot Crowley and Judith Roddy in Translati
Culture / 3 December 2018
Best of 2018: Theatre
3 December 2018
by LYNNE WALSH
Nawal Slemiah, from Palestine, speaks at FiLiA
Features / 26 October 2018
From prostitution, to grooming, to the Palestine question, women confront the power of patriarchy
26 October 2018
LYNNE WALSH reports from the international feminist FiLiA conference, which took place in Salford last weekend
Misanthrope: Keith Allen as William Hogarth
Theatre Review / 9 October 2018
Lusty strokes
9 October 2018
Nick Dark paints a full-blooded portrait of 18th-century artist William Hogarth in a double bill of plays, says LYNNE WALSH
Misanthrope: Keith Allen as William Hogarth
Theatre Review / 2 October 2018
Lust for life
2 October 2018
Nick Dark paints a vigorous portrait of 18th century artist William Hogarth in a double bill of plays, says LYNNE WALSH
Features / 17 September 2018
Decriminalisation now or ‘the unionisation of rape’?
17 September 2018
LYNNE WALSH casts a critical eye on a series of lectures and the launch of a campaign to convince the Labour Party to legalise prostitution
Elizabeth Mansfield as Edith Piaf
Theatre Review / 31 July 2018
It’s Piaf alright, but...
31 July 2018
LYNNE WALSH leaves the theatre rueing the many imperfections of a production that should have promised so much more
Mariela Castro and Mike Jackson at Havana Pride
Features / 12 July 2018
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners: Pride in a legacy
12 July 2018
Rather than rotting away in an archive, the achievements of LGSM are still inspiring people today, writes LYNNE WALSH
Theatre Review / 12 July 2018
Crunch time
12 July 2018
LYNNE WALSH sees the working class fight back in a spot-on production from Flesh and Bone
Translations
Theatre Review / 14 June 2018
Nothing lost in Translations
14 June 2018
LYNNE WALSH sees a production of Brian Friel's great play on the fraught relationship between the English and the Irish which is telling in every detail
I Am Of Ireland
Theatre Review / 11 June 2018
Threads unravel in ill-woven Irish tapestry
11 June 2018
Romola Garai in The Writer
Theatre Review / 25 April 2018
Write on
25 April 2018
Ella Hickson's acute play about a woman playwright confronting everyday sexism in life as much as in theatre is brilliantly scripted, says LYNNE WALSH