IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Women and war

Socialist Challenge No. 248, 4 June 1982 · p. 9 of the scan · 343 words

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Why we oppose votes for men Because man's place is in the army. 1.

Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise than by fighting Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no longer look up to 4.

Because men will lose their charm if they step out of their natural sphere and interest themselves in other matters than feats of Because men are too emotional to vote. 5.

Their conduct at baseball games and political tendency to appeal to force renders them while their innate particularly unfit for the task of government.

Alice Duer Miller, 1915 Alice Duer Miller, the American novelist and Nations of in Workers are unions to up demanding rights and war effort instead.

the war, not because we're this war gentle, peaceful women but because it's against our inyears ago a section of the terests of all working peo- terests — and against the inple young, white, male and female.

jobs.

islands — solution but, you do nothing you take violent nature of Trident missiles to its knees, for more difficult.

to British policy situations it's not preach pacifism. think violent I was fifteen became a TROOP SOU far it can go OF IRELAN to a nuciear wcapons Force. all weapons are should name Thatcher. women's supported the But we should oppose old, black, missile site. TRADITIONAL images of women present them as weak, submissive - and 'peaceloving'. The left has not been immune to this. In particular many in the Labour Party have fallen into this easy trap of saying that women should oppose the war because of their peaceloving natures.

Socialist Challenge asked three women about their attitude to war. paigner and pacifist. Terry Marsland is secretary of the Tobacco Workers' Union: Barbara Pulford is a sup porter of Revolution Youth, a sister newspaper of Socialist Challenge I REGARD the Falklands as a colony snatched by the Pat Arrowsmith is a veteran cam-

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