I think it is really great that they are putting this on, but ........
It is in no way a "Women's Liberation Conference". I never understand why women who have a particular strand of feminism, eg WPUK socialist feminist, FiLia liberal feminist, all think they can appropriate and some how validate their politics by calling Women's Liberationist.
If it was a women's liberation conference there would be invited "speakers" with women sitting dutifully in rows to someone, somebody else has decided is appropriate to "educate" the attendees.
If it was a women's liberation conference they would have offered to do the organising and then invited women's activists and groups to suggest topics for workshops. then a list of these would be circulated to potential attendees, who would indicate the ones they are interested in, and from that the actual workshops agreed.
Its fine if the conference is a campaign meeting to further the aims of WPUK that they pick speakers, or presume the agenda. But that is a conference about their campaign, not a women's liberation conference.
All these women trying to water down the radical essence of women's liberation, which was / is grassroots organising by groups who network with others.
Because the fundamental need is to ensure that women feel they are equally empowered or entitled to be part of creating the agenda, creating the tactics.
Reverting to the top down, hierarchic structure which depends on a passive consumer audience is directly in contravention of the women's liberation. I appreciate that for many of them being Labour / TU that they think this is how things are organised, but before attempting to appropriate the label of women's liberation they should at least have the decency to find out what that actually is.
Or is it they are so ashamed of being socialist feminists that they dont feel able to publicly say this.
Feminism as a consumer event is not women's liberation.