weeks, there's been enough of it.
First, Judge are always guilty.
proceeded against for rape be held -and the rapists are free line then he ought to 'consenting'. laws with its ambiguous marriage is all against the woman.
go out they are almost automatically walking, making themselves any man to take.
years tor all rapists when it gets into the press.
police are no friends of women, women best defence is self defence chains and not to rely on bourgeois law.
ing women now tial we may be as to their effect.
law problem in the first place!
London IT MAKES you sick at heart to read about the brutality and cruelty with which women are treated in this society and the way the law itself even condones this. And in the last two Bertram Richards tells women in this country that if they go out late at night, if they choose to be independent, if they attempt to exercise basic rights afforded to men in this society then they must expect to be punished for it. Women, as the victims.
Then, in Scotland three young men are not because the woman involved is in such a bad state that she can't give evidence and the case cannot so again the woman is punished And these cases are not excentions. Loro Hailsham has now made a public statement condemning the decision of the judge in the first case. But if this judge has stepped out of be removed. Lord Hailsham would not approve of that, since it was he who two years ago upheld the verdict of special circumstance for a man who claimed that he believed the woman involved was The entire legal framework of the rape definition of consent, with its non-recognition of rape within Such laws reinforce attitudes that women are either whores or wives and mothers that they should either stay at home or, if they 'street available for A Tory MP following on from the Judge Richards verdict, is seeking to introduce a law for a minimum custodial sentence of two • Typical of the law and order brigade to jump in on an issue like this But socialists must explain their attitude to this. We know that the law courts and the and thai fight to change the society that keeps them in But we cannot abstain on the issues facshould support changes in the law including the ones mentioned for a minimum custodial sentence to protect and benetit women - however scep.
We should also demand the removal of judges like Richards, and for the laws allowing for rape between husband and wife, and for the word 'consent' to be changed in the I would be interested to know what other readers think about this. It is a burning issue for women and socialists must take it up we cannot leave it to the crocodile tears 01 the bourgeois media - who are part of the