Women Against Fundamentalism came into being in the spring of 1989, contemporaneously with apogee of the Rushdie Affair, but not because of it. It started at the instigation of women who, working in refuges and women’s organizations in immigrant localities, could see every day the effects of rising fundamentalism on the women. Not only has it sought to combat the growing influence of the fundamentalists and counter the attacks of the New Right on the position of women, but also to make positive interventions around the many questions of social and educational policy that the Rushdie Affair opened up for public discussion.