Here we stand

Women changing the world

Helena Earnshaw and Angharad Penrhyn Jones (eds), Honno Welsh Women’s Press, 450 pages, £10.99

A fascinating anthology about contemporary women campaigners and how they were changed by the process of changing the world. 

Through a series of interviews and articles, 17 key British women campaigners talk about the difficult and exhilarating nature of their work. 

These women are dreaming of a better world. But they are not just dreamers. They have organised, marched on the streets, joined protest camps, opened refuges, blogged from war zones and smashed up military equipment.

They have been sacked, attacked, abused, jailed, shot at, sued, deceived by police spies and even disowned by their families.

But still they march on. And they are changing history. TUC general secretary Frances O’ Grady has referred to Here we stand as a “timely and important publication”.

And, she says: “In their different ways, the women featured have all made a great contribution to the struggle for justice, freedom and equality, both in Britain and across the globe.”

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