My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa. So for me the emergence…

- Rachel Holmes

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a…

- Rachel Holmes

The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are affected by …

- Rachel Holmes

One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask f…

- Rachel Holmes

Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer.

- Rachel Holmes

Eleanor [Marx] was involved in the 1889 Paris congress resolution that established May Day as an annual demonstration of the international solidarity…

- Rachel Holmes

Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary source…

- Rachel Holmes

Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her father." Absolute bollocks. …

- Rachel Holmes

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

- Rachel Holmes