Mumsnet, LWS, FILIA and class based double standards.

[TinselAngel]

Does anyone here remember this thread, and other similar ones around the time, in which Aja and DJ Lippy were said to be tainted by association because they went on a march about two tier policing and took some LWS leaflets.

its interesting to remember this in the context of this weekend’s news that FILIA have attended an omnicause march, yet we’re supposed to take it as read that these women can pick and choose which of the positions held by other marchers, they align with.

https://x.com/filia_charity/status/2037881086898835560?s=46&t=PSGltfjrMyZmBtYq2-AVIQ

Its hard not to see this as being about how silly working class women can’t be trusted to be exposed to other view points without being beguiled into fascism, yet superior middle class left wing women are safe.

I thought there was an undertone on the Friday but not much overt until drink had been taken at the party. Although I’m told there was an incident in the queue. I really cannot believe that they let flags in. Any sort of sectional flags are inappropriate. I’m unhappy that FiLia didn’t expect & prepare for conflict.

I went to a lot more activist sessions but someone I spoke to at coffee found real anti-semetism/ pro-Palestinian in every session she attended. (Someone else denied October 7th ever happened)

Someone tweeted that Lisa Marie was previously heading for women’s officer at Labour. Is that correct? It might explain some things . I liked her, Cardiff was amazing. I’m not sorry I didn’t go to Brighton and I won’t be going to blackpool. I don’t like the antisemitism

I joined the Trade Union FiLiA in the hope it would be about supporting women against gender woo, whatever their position on the Middle East. Big mistake. I emailed my resignation due to their presence on the march. The reply I got from KT was hugely disappointing. Classic NHS Fife defense. ‘Everybody else went’ nonsense. Mentioned my union went. Yeah, and I’m very annoyed they went, too. Then the use of the Labour extremist Jewish groups attending somehow justifying it, completely ignoring the fact they are the minority view of British Jews. I used to have a lot of respect for KT.

Thing is, the Omnicause is just assumed to be correct so no justification is needed.

I know I can sound like a broken record on this subject, but since various Filia bods like to accuse others of being "aligned" with bad people, often on flimsy grounds, I'd love them to explain what they think they're doing attending an event organised by the Socialist Workers Party.

The SW party needs frequent explainers, imo. I think the rot is endemic and baked in.

They are capable of nuanced thinking but the rest of us gullible fools will be swept along if exposed to any non omnicause views.

There is a lot of very real antisemitism on the left at the moment. But unfortunately many of the people who speak up about it seem unable to acknowledge any failings of the current Israeli government no matter how murderous they might be.

The problem lots of people (all flavours) seem to be hard of thinking so can’t cope with 2 things both being correct. I.e. the Israeli government is carrying out atrocities AND Hamas are not “good guys”.
Nevermind not being able to see how the mass attack and rape of women at a music festival in Israel also intimidates Palestinian women.

It was unfortunate for them that TRA was pushed just before the omnicause, because i think if it started now, many would have ignored it completely, or taken a very 'nuanced' view from the off. I suspect they also assumed Labour wouldn't be so firmly TWAW and would want to destroy the tory self id policy. Maybe they believed there was going to be a table to be invited to.

But there's always been criticism of women doing GC wrong, then criticism of GC itself.

These are surely two separate things? If you can’t separate attacks on Jews for being Jewish from the actions of a foreign government, then that seems like anti-semitism. Would you insist that any defence of Palestinians was accompanied by an attack on Hamas?

Was it organised by the SWP? I just assumed it was their usual “march at the front & hand out signs” tactic. I’m in 2 minds on this. I believe that factionalism has been a disaster for the left, letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. OTOH, guilt by association seems to be becoming the guiding principle for so many that unity can backfire. I’m also a little scared by the set menu of ‘opinions you must hold or you are evil’ - that way authoritarianism lies.

FiLiA is definitely hypocritical. But then I have found since being in this movement that some women on the far left are politics first, women second so this is expected.

Apparently Labour Women's Declaration were on the march too. They are classed as far right because they know men can't be women so what were they doing on the march!

The term far right has become so meaningless just like transphobia. But scaring people that the far right is on every street corner brings in the money for a lot of organisations.

I'm deeply disappointed at my union, Prospect, that has until the last Unite the Kingdom march in September 2025, stayed out of politics - not anymore. They put a statement of support out for Hate not Hope. Misogynistic Hope not Hate that encourages deranged transactivists to go after women. Shameful.

I’m deeply disappointed at my union, Prospect, that has until the last Unite the Kingdom march in September 2025, stayed out of politics - not anymore. They put a statement of support out for Hate not Hope. Misogynistic Hope not Hate that encourages deranged transactivists to go after women. Shameful.

Oh hell, did they? They’re my union too 🙄

KRUTI WALSH, FiLiA Trustee

The Together Alliance Coalition, the organisers of the Together march last Saturday in London and chaired by Kevin Courtney, did a great job at keeping the aim of the march clear and simple and staying on message: the march was to be a show of unity against the far right and against racism – that's it. And that's why we went. ...

I am proud to have marched in the biggest anti-racist march in UK history with FiLiA, particularly alongside our sisters: Labour Women’s Declaration, Women’s Liberation Alliance, Project Resist, Feminist Dissent and others. It is important that sex-realist feminists are in anti-racist spaces – these are our spaces too. And we need to be in them to show our politics as an option for those on the left and to dissolve the binary thinking that suggests you can’t be on the left if you are sex-realist (or conversely that gender critical people must be right wing). ...

Continues at https://www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/2026/4/1/women-in-filia-reflect-on-the-past-week

We have a great atmosphere, they “swarm the streets”, yet at the same time, dividing people into “us and them” is wrong.