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What do Russell Brand, the SWP and The Casa have in common?
[Screen grabs linked to in this article are also shown at the end of the text with description for reader assistive software]. The above leaflet is a cluster-fuck of disreputable revolutionary brands[1] all discrediting themselves further through association with the others. To be fair, the Brand brand probably doesn’t know or care about his image […]
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Activists Chain Themselves to Liverpool Town Hall Railings on International Women’s Day
March 8, 2014
by angrywomenguest
Activists have just chained themselves to the railings of Liverpool Town Hall to protest the impact of national and local government cuts on women, this International Women’s Day. They are borrowing a direct action tactic and dress style from suffragettes, to highlight their opinion that the interests of women are still not represented by those […]
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Statement on 2nd November at The Casa
November 16, 2013
by angrywomenguest
This statement is to clarify events surrounding the “Pack a Scrum of Solidarity” event at The Casa, Liverpool, held on 2nd November to raise funds for the family of Chelsea Manning. AWOL is amongst the many and varied organisations that have been falsely credited with organising this action. We were not involved as an organisation, though […]
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Hope University’s Response to AWOL
Please note: the post Martin Smith Given PhD Place at Liverpool Hope University, posted on the 21st October 2013, is a guest post, which we at AWOL are happy to host but did not write. Contrary to many assumptions, AWOL did not initiate, and does not control, the Delta Removals campaign, though again we are […]
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A Response to Liverpool Hope’s Victim Blaming Safety Advice
October 24, 2013
by angrywomenguest
*Trigger Warning – mentions of rape, sexual harassment and explanations of victim blaming & survivor shaming* The following quote is what the dean of students felt the need to tell all current Liverpool Hope students presumably in light of recent news that Martin Smith (aka ‘Comrade Delta’) has been given a funded PhD […]
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Martin Smith Given PhD Place at Liverpool Hope University
October 21, 2013
by angrywomenguest
*Trigger warning- rape and sexual harassment.* It has come to our attention that Martin Smith – who resigned from the Socialist Workers Party following rape and sexual harassment allegations – is now based in the Social Work department at Liverpool Hope University. The accusations against Smith were covered up by an internal investigation from the […]
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A feminist guide to celebrating Thatcher’s demise
I’ll start from the premise that anybody who’s got as far as reading this had no particular love for Margaret Thatcher. If this doesn’t apply to you, this article will not help. You’re on the wrong blog. Go away now. Bye bye. Yesterday, today and probably for the next week or so, people are sharing […]
Posted in: Capitalism, Feminist guides
Rant the I’ve-forgotten-how-many: Julian Assange and his apologists, again.
Trigger-warning: post deals with issues of rape apologism and paraphrases and links to examples. Yes, Assange is back in the news, and once again the lefty twitfacesphere is earnestly asking itself whether you should fight to prevent a rapist[0] from being extradited to face questioning for rape, if he thinks he might end up extradited […]
The ConDem War on Women
July 3, 2012
by angrywomenguest
This is a guest post is from Hannah Ryan. As the ConDem agenda pushes into overdrive, women are in the frontline of ‘austerity measures’. The Government tell us deficit reduction is essential to keep us afloat, achievable only through cutting spending and increasing taxes (though not for the rich or corporate sector). Labour would have […]
Posted in: Patriarchy, The Cuts
Sexism in Activism meeting, Sunday 8th July, 2-5pm, Next to Nowhere
A little while ago, AWOL held a meeting to discuss the difficulties women face in activist groups across the left, of being heard at meetings, child-friendly and safe meeting spaces, expectations on activist women and how we can support each other in calling out comrades on their sexism. Since then, these issues have been coming […]
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what is AWOL?
AWOL is a feminist group that meets in Liverpool on the first Monday of the month
7pm till 8pm - our organising meeting (women only), followed by:
Feminist Educational - 8pm till about 10pm - an informal discussion on a different topic each month. Feminist & feminist-friendly folk of any sex welcome.
AWOL 
November 4, 2014
by Laia Odo
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