Home Economics: A new interview with Sheila Rowbotham

The Third Estate is very pleased to publish this new and very illuminating interview with Sheila Rowbotham – by writer and critic Kate Webb. Sheila Rowbotham’s most recent book, Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century looks at that period bridging the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which saw such a bust [...]

The EDL and anti-fascist obfuscation

Question: When far left groups talk about “confronting” the EDL, as the AWL do in their analysis of the protests in East London on Saturday, what exactly do they mean? I ask this because I’m increasingly getting the unpleasant impression that far too much discussion of how to deal with the EDL and their ilk [...]