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Iran is no exception in restricting women's freedom according to onialism in Algeria back into purdah; Portuguese colcumcision didn't; the oil profits of Saudi Arabia have placed women benna closca doors. riter, Lenin, and the IRA alike all sold out on ¡neocure is crystal clear. Patriarchy rules Women have no interest in socialist revolunon. vien will always sell them down the river.
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world entirely from her own Dosi. tion as a well-educated professional woman living in Britain. The only oppression she chooses to identify own separating sexual oppression from national domination and class exDOPTIOn anti-communist worldview is developed.
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Jill Tweedie Coll • Tennist the I ne the pillar of Vietnam •Women in Zimbabwe, The Bolsheviks did not simply They passed some of the most advanced reforms the seen.on this issue.
men and women to live 'unregistered' IcHaliscu homosexuality COLLICE Kolonel. 'cabinet to organise to fight fo imperialist as in 1925 to Con Aryan anmony luna to protect single German women forced falling Socialist ex1917: The 'MANY women have come to the conclusion that change, whether in the guise of modernisation, revolution, or a new nationalism, inevitably conspires against them or inWhatever heap there is, they say, we end up at the bottom of it. Whether the men in power are left-wing or dead 'THERE is nothing new about this and nothing peculiarly In the years before the Russian revolution, women were promised equal rights, even the sharing of child-care and love without marriage. Women fought and died in their thousands for Lenin and the communist But after the storming of the Winter Palace, childcare 'rejection of the family' and 'petit-bourgeois Alexandra Kollontai protested but it did her no good. The women of the new Soviet state were saddled with the familiar responsibilities, the familiar identity. Ten years Stalin, famine, it also ended the barbaric tradition of foot binding. No small achievement....
Tor women and men should draw up their own marriage contracts to : world has ever men to take more responsio tv to , Thev made mar. domestic labour.
LUC were Soviet democracy se the the ton of women's liberation but the party Pressive eaten Women in Action/Women Fightback Saturday 26 July, 11pm, Lucas Pub, Gray's Inn Rd, WC1.
All supporters of Women in Action and Women's Fightback invited to attend to discuss the details of the merger between the two journals decided on at the re cent Women's Fightback Conference held in Birmingham. For copies of Women in Action proposals please contact Judith Arkwright on 01-359 8371 centre, our needs are Kings.
Louise communard She also suggested that women linked to encourage economic ment dustrialisation.
who political by position because people hands.
For troube Tweedie to offer feminist Dach weal 'IN rebellion alone woman is at ease, trampling upon both prejudice and sufferMichel, writing after the Paris Commune of 1871 struggle struggle enemy is so hated the munity culal une posinon or women in society 1s the general leve of and political develop An economy liar is nerves dependent on agriculture cannot be Ine judged by western standards of infreedom not vel wiped out illiteracy completely but it has abolished famine and starva tion and given the vast bulk of its population work, which is far more than any semi-colonial country that Has nut cubarac on a planned economic development can do among the Iranian masses today!
No The greatest allies of women in Iran today are the Kur: dish freedom fighters and factory workers who refuse to be cowed by Khomeini. Only by seeing the link between sexual, national, and class oppression in Iran today i will it be possible to defeat the reactionary ther the cause of feminism. The Tweedie's will be cas but figh Jill 'patriarchy' worse than useless. It tells women nothing about where support can be found for a difficult struggle.
Jill Tweedie makes one point, and only one, that cuts any ice "Changing women's lives mean men losing their identity. says a young member or sinn rein interviewed in the article. He thinks not possible to ask IRA fighters to and defeat British imperialism at same time. Women the Republican WHO JIl didn't bother to interview, have a different idea however.
They are beginning to organist and discuss out feminist issues and at a recent conference discussed a wide range of feminist issues in cluding abortion, sexual harass. ment, contraception, nursery provision, and sexual stereotyoing.
It is true that traditional values and culture die hard. In Ireland Catholicism reinforces male pre judices in the Republican tradition. In Iran, Islamic ideology strong hold on the movement that over new use oran women can not wait for national liberation and socialism confront male preTudice. inal nas to be cone as lot battle goes on.
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