Silalec. Luu lump them together and suggest they have the same Surely the many articles in the feminist and left press including Socialist Challenge) on the reasons wav men rave ano baler women cannot have completely passed you by?
cunaren can drive vou to distraction, especially babies who cry and cry for no apparent reason. roverly, as you tiently point out, makes it worse. Every parent has experienced that awful urge to hit their child -sometimes it becomes uncontrollable.
That is not what wife beating is about. The causes of wife battering are very complex, but one lus Is lor suic. i usually Isil t all uncontrollable urge. Violence against women is generally •remedialea, it is about une man's possession of the woman, about power Parents who batter their children are taking out on them the unbearable frustrations of living in a capitalist society (this is not or course to concone cano battering); men who batter women are exerting control over men own Dobery I'm not saying it is worse to batter a woman than a child; of course not. bul piease don t jolr the bourgeois liberals and blame wife battering on 'tensions and economic worries what it's about at all.
KAREN FOSTER, London N16 I FOUND your coverage of the UN Decade or women Con ference (31 July) very disappoinIn issue 157 (25 Julv) Valerie Coultas tried to show the importance of socialist revolution for Ine Duolcallon 0i a Icilel 11ul he S Wales IMG on the arso ane bomb alacks in wales j July) was a great service to us in Wales.
It showed quite clearly that the IMG adopts the same contemptuous and arrogant attitude to the weisn as ll has adoptea to tause fighting imperialism the world That the IMG is proud to stand 'against the arson campaign' is revealing in itself.
What have all the ruling class papers said about the arson: 'this is not the way to raise the issue' Every soclanst sees through Lile lypocrisy of that respons Wales IMG say? ous is nol lne way lo raise le issue'. What is the way?
Out of the IMG's magic hat of formalistic solutions to haltincerstood propens comesd ed to leap trom nothing to a mass movement out ice Degaas are precisely one way in which movements are built This year saw the biggest ever turn-out in support of the ton, lor the two members or MAC who were killed when laying a vomo on the morning of the Investiture (of the Prince of Wales) in 1969. armed struggle against the British state is both possible and necessary.
The truth is that without the sures soclanst cnalenee would not be talking about second homes in Wales.
If thev are now 'emphasising these positions (against the arson campaign) in its political work', when ine role tual une • wale. IMG have taken upon themselves is to undermine the building revolutionary movement in Wale: directed against the British state.
For a Welsh Socialist Republic the liberation of -women She4ook ROD JONES, Caerdydd. I THINK you make a grave mistake in referring (25 July) to Martin Meehan, an Irish freedom fighter, as a 'dissident' Generally speaking, the whole oss den issue over le as rew years has been used as a stick with which to beat the Soviet Union.
stepping up the attacks on the Union, •aris have occu evidence of the Soviet Union's supposed inhumanity and as a cover venu wilch to muc lic continuing war crimes of Britain and the USA.
Therefore to describe Martin Meehan as a 'dissident' is to totally deny the nature of the struggle he is a part of.
The fight of the Irish people, led by the brave Republican movement. bears absolutely 10 compastoned hensort disaffected citizens of the We are suppos- socialist countries (a plight which has been deliberately magnified out of all proportion)
The Republican movement is fighting for freedom, rights. The Irish people are not dissidents, they are in the front line of the struggle to end British im ocllalisill.
JANE PETRIE, Edinburgh Charter 80 They showed that helping Brits?
IN THE article 'The Case for Charter 80' (31 July) you call Charter 80 'the campaigr established in Britain to promote the demands of the H Block and Even a brief read through the demands shows this is untrue as of a ine real acmand or lne orisoners is omitted from Charter 80.
This demand is for Stalls absence of this demand, Charter 80 denies the prisoners are prisoners of war, camprisoners of war. imoerialsil little less brutal and terrorising "political paign in Ireland. because i it
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