International Women’s Day meetings & other events

Just some of the events fighting for women’s liberation, and an end to domestic violence service cuts, austerity and capitalism, with the Socialist Party and the Women’s Lives Matter campaign

Striking for women's rights in the Spanish state , photo Libres y Combativas

Striking for women’s rights in the Spanish state , photo Libres y Combativas   (Click to enlarge: opens in new window)

London

Date and time: Friday 8th March, 12 noon

International women’s day protest as part of the Women’s Lives Matter day of action
Protest: Stop cuts to domestic violence services

Venue: assemble at Parliament Square

East London

Date and time: Friday 8th March, 6:30pm

Protest: Newham against cuts to domestic violence services

Venue: outside Stratford town hall, London


Date and time: Thursday 7th March, 7.30 to 9pm

Event: Socialist Party public meeting. International Women’s Day and the struggle for women’s liberation

Venue: Sylvia’s Corner, 97 Aldworth Road, Stratford, London E15 4DN

Hackney:

Date and time: 7.30pm, Wednesday 13 March

Event: Socialist Party public meeting on Women’s Lives Matter

Speaker: Julia Leonard, activist with Campaign Against Domestic Violence

Venue: Cafe Z Bar, 58 Stoke Newington High Street, London N16

Haringey

Date and time: 5:30pm, Friday 8th March

Event: Protest as part of WLM day of action

Place: Haringey civic centre

Waltham Forest

Date and time: 6:30pm, Friday 8th March

Event: Protest as part of WLM day of action

Place: Walthamstow town square


Date and time: 7.30pm, Thursday 7 March

Event: Socialist Party public meeting on Women’s Lives Matter

Venue: William Morris Community Centre, Greenleaf Road, London E17

East Midlands

Leicester

Date and time: Saturday 16 March, 2.30pm

Event: Public meeting – Women’s Lives Matter – fighting for a no-cuts budget

Venue: The Phoenix

Speakers: Amy Cousens, WLM, and Leicester mayoral candidate Steve Score

North West

Liverpool

Date and time: Tuesday 5 March, 7.30pm

Event: Socialist Party public meeting – International women’s day – Women’s Lives Matter

Venue: Casa pub (downstairs), 29 Hope Street, Liverpool L1 9BQ

Manchester

Date and time: 8 March, 5.30pm

Event: protest

Venue: Outside Central Library, St Peters Square, Manchester M2 5PD

Warrington

Date and time: Wednesday 6 March, 7.30pm

Event: Socialist Party public meeting

Venue: Lounge Room, Bold Street Methodist Mission, Palmyra Square North, Warrington

Wirral

Date and time: Thursday 7 March, 7.30pm

Event: Socialist Party public meeting

Venue: Stork Hotel, 41 Price Street, Birkenhead CH41 6JN

South West

Bristol North

Date and time: Tuesday 12 March 2019, 7.30pm

Event: Socialist Party public meeting – Fighting women’s oppression today

Venue: Malcolm X Centre (small building), 141 City Road, Bristol BS2 8YH

Call/text 07986 951527 for more info

Bristol South

Date and time: Thursday 14 March 2019, 7.45pm

Event: Socialist Party public meeting – Fighting women’s oppression today

Venue: Steam Crane, 4-6 North Street, BS3 1HT

Call/text 07986 951527 for more info

Southern

Southampton

Date and time: Thursday 7 March, 7.30pm

Event: Socialist Party public meeting

Venue: University of Southampton, Avenue Campus Room 1011

Wales

Cardiff

Date and time: Thursday 7 March, 7.00 pm

Event: Socialist Party public meeting -“Celebrating International Women’s Day by organising the fightback”

Venue: Rummer Tavern, (opposite Cardiff Castle)

Speakers: Julia Leonard (Women’s Lives Matter) and Beth Webster (reporting from the general strike in Spain for women’s rights)


Cardiff East Socialist Party: The origins of women’s oppression

Thursday 14th March 2019, 7.30pm

Roath Park pub, 170 City Road, Cardiff CF24 3JE

West Midlands

Birmingham

Date and time: Wednesday 6 March at 6.30-8.30pm

Event: Socialist Party public meeting

Speakers include: Birmingham Homecare striker and Birmingham bins striker

Venue: The Victoria, 48 John Bright Street, Birmingham B1 1BN

Yorkshire

Barnsley

Date and time: 8 March, 5.30-6.30pm

Event: Women’s Lives Matter vigil

Venue: Barnsley Town Hall

Huddersfield

Date and time: Thursday 7th March, 6pm

Event: Launch of Huddersfield Women’s Lives Matter

Venue: Huddersfield University, Oastler building, Floor 7, Room 27. Creche facilities available

Leeds

Date and time: Friday 8 March, 12 noon

Event: Protest – walk out and join us!

Venue: Briggate

Wear red and make lots of noise!

Join the Women’s Strike Assembly public meeting at 4.30pm

Sheffield

Date and time: Friday 8 March, 12 noon

Event: Protest

Venue: Outside Owen Building, Sheffield Hallam University


Date and time: Tuesday 12 March, 7pm

Event: Women’s Lives Matter public meeting

Venue: Central United Reform Church, Chapel Row, Norfolk Street, Sheffield

Speaker: Amy Cousens, Women’s Lives Matter


This version of this article was first posted on the Socialist Party website on 26 February 2019 and may vary slightly from the version subsequently printed in The Socialist.