SOCIALIS I namenge should be ashamed of its front page story 'Now Tories go for the kids' (31 July).
Certainly you should - at long last — be commenting on the ories aracks on benents. ana so drawing attention to the obvious suffering these will cause.
But to link these cuts to child abuse is not only gratuitous, it is also entirely misleading •lauslically. and une arlicie claims to rely on 'statistics', there is no correlation between poverty ano comesic volence.
Domestic violence, as the Women's Aid Federation has bontec outor may vears. oc curs in families of every class and every level of income. Does socaust charence rearv beneve that poor parents batter their children more than The Tories' policy on benefits wii mean that more chiloren will suffer from malnutrition, rickets, and the cold. Ihey will not be treated more violently by their Children suffer violence from their parents because of an ideology that considers children (and women) to be the disposable property of their parents (and husbands); that considers childrer to be the sole responsibility ol their biological parents; and from 'alienation of capitalist soCiety all subjects SC would do well to tackle before they resort to using pictures of battered children to support an inadequate examinanon or ine pre sent government's attitude to benefits and the welfare of Chlorer.
JULIA UNWIN, Liverpool YOUR reference to wife beating in an article about children and child battering (31 July) was most Jill Tweedie the Sunday Times.
I don't wish to defend Tweedie (indeed I would question whether she is even will in ine bares or oocialisl Challenge), but my memory of the article is not that revolutions ser women Dack' oul rainer tioning whether they take them forward.
Valerie's wham. bam. hit them-on-the-head simplistic attacks do little to argue the case for the integral relationship be tween socialism ane teminism The report from the alterHalve currei cuce was Husi welcome, but the main article was a waste of space.
It consisted of little more than a list of the terrible effects of imerialism on Socialist Challenge readers really need to be told that legal equalitie sell-corollar worlu, or lila imperialism 'often reinforces religious hierarchies and backward traditions to stabilise its domination'?
Socialist Challenge is not an Oxfam broadsheet which Calalogues i the degradation the people of the neo-colonial world suffer; it is a fighting paper. It is пот енотепо wck a token we paragraphs on the end telling us that 'women's position...is intimately bound up with imperialist exploitation' without having argued that in the article.
women in the "Third World' to fight imperialism; why is the antificient to achieve women's liberation these are the questions the artice suould flave douressed itself to.
The article on the Bengali teresting, but it happened thirty years ago. Why did you not write about the many struggies woniel are involved in now? Why not write about women in Zimbabwe or raresune. wily nol transiate une interview with a Nicaraguan woman which appeared comoule Daber of the Spanish section of the Fourth International)?
Bridget Elton, London N19 worth arguing
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Violence against women is premeditated