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A critical time for women’s rights and the left
On the eve of #Lab23 conference Labour Women’s Declaration Group reflects on how far their campaign has come – and encourages sisters to get involved
Leafletting outside 2018 conference. LWD considers what's changed over the past five years

FIVE years ago, 15 Labour Party women found their way to a secret meet-up in a Liverpool restaurant, on the eve of the 2018 conference.

Some were meeting for the first time, though we knew others’ names as veterans of campaigns, including against Section 28, for abortion rights, lesbian custody battles, anti-racist and anti-fascist activism, and women’s liberation. 

We — and others — had spent months secretly organising to distribute Fair Play for Women leaflets and talk to fellow delegates about the Tory government’s proposals to introduce self-ID in reform of the Gender Recognition Act (GRA).

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