Socialist Challenge will next week be printing a reply to the correspondence on Cuba.
develop, as best we can, a male usa argument them. For •Phil, only achanciaon is in oract.
The Cubans al c in agreement and indeed inspired the Nicaraguan FSLN and the Salvadorean These people, unfortunate as it may be, take similar positions to the Cubans on the Polish crackdown.
Phil is prepared these are revolutionaries. Why not the Cubans?
The Cubans are the only other current the which bases orientation _Central I AM SICK of reading Socialist Challenge that rape has been eliminated for 'virtually eliminated' as Dave Smith told us in issue 239) in Cuba. It is clear that huge gains have been made by women in Cuba and this must have had a huge effect on the general conEditor reserves the right to cut any letter over 400 words. Write to SC letters, c/o PO Box 50, London N7 sciousness about women's position society But (and assumption it must be as we are never given any facts) that sexual relation ships have been so radicalchanged that sexual and oppression nave been eradicated Huschise. It would take 2XP years and years for that to happen in any society.
KaDe is not oni something, that happens late at night dark street. Women all round the have been challenging that myth fol years. Rape, in its broadest attention. • Most rapes take Dlace in the home bv male. known to the woman, cluding Most Halt also reported Maybe it is the case that women are safe to walk the streets at night in Cuba. That in itself is fantastic. But the logic that flows from a uselessly nardefinition of rape glorification of the series unnecessary gains of the Cuban revolution, which we wholeheartedly support.
LAURA MITCHELL Oldham