personal The Battle Of Ideas supplement is a welcome development, and so far very interesting. We suggest that one of the Important topics it should take up is the politics of personal life and sexuality, in oppression, oppression, and the division in capitalist society between private and public life.
This is important for three reasons in particular: to discuss ways to genuinely ntegrate the struggle against women's oppression into politics as a wnoie, THNO ways o reaching important sections of the working class, such as housewives, who can The 'politics these questions are often Marxists who are concerned to fight for vestabisnmentora common front aoalnsi consider the fight for workers control of their own bodies as a peripheral issue.' gay It is true that most of the revolutionary left have been made importance of abortion campaign, but even here the real issues this struggle raises are 'ducked.
No paper on the left, has discussed what 20,000 women summer really marched for, which was the right to sexual freedom.
Ine SIXE Loeinanu EQUALN aspect of which is the corruption of SexUdIlly The IMG takes a principled position in of an movement. However, socialist feminists and gays are _ПОТ believe that our struggle must be integrated with the rest of the class struggle We would not pretend that we have a fully worked out strategy to do this. instead of leaving Contl ary DO ILICs (O ШЕПЕ the women's and gay revolutionary left needs to enter into the debate and draw it into the rest of its oDened UD DY material basis of women's oppression, to GIYC private/ public division and the function Jane ducked o1 capitalist social relations. The positions of the CP and the IS for instance should be taken up here. discussed, ism, the Family and Personal Life, and a new pamphlet on consciousness-raising aware Or une by Sue Bruley which raises a number of interesting political questions struggle of women and gays, but for the as far as we know. struggle of the whole CELIA HOLT, JAMIE GOUGH (London).
of the women's ine strueeie growth as Reich tried to ground for one bureaucratic broad support unttee Cambalens.
these antics do and superior form of democracy.
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autonomous We sebaralists Ontne 'personal' sphere exCIUDIVe nour movement. During these derisory We suggest that the debate could be La discussion a theoretical grounding to of Club scay oporessiol capable reTusec Heicn s worK Coud DE TGWU also Eli Zaretsky's CapitalNABNE IS This debate is vital not only for the are oavine al gresent -La decent living wage! working class. - Club One Bingo opened in November 1974. At that time the average pay of the several employees was less than 50p per hour. In clubs. In October 1976 the average pay girls employed at the club is 56½p per these two years the gir Rolls have made constant representations to the management, attempting to improve rates management reply was not simply to dismiss these requests, but not even to negotiate them In an ettort to obtain justice, the giris One joined the transoor d Gapatal or hers uring tor mle gide For necollaling Predictably, management categorically accept NATTKE [National Association of Thea- InsistIng tnal une giris join une tre, Television and Kine Employees].
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The rates it-usually negotiates for its members are below what management and that's below Club One Bingo is not a small club or a one-man show. It is part of Orr Entermet clubs cinema Midland group as well as several seaside addition they own numerous shops in Coventry and elsewhere. owner of Club One has not one but twc It's BIG takings, FBIL profits but smal wages for the sinco workers The strike committee ask you to hel by NOT GOING TO ORR ENTERPRISES for entertainment at Club One, the Rialto Theatre One Cinema or ine Spa Leamington.
We ask you to make a collection for the women, many of whom depend on thei wages as a sole source of income. It's not pin money for them. Support the giris in their demand fer recognition of union they want (the TGWU] and a Despite promises cecent ving ware and suchlike from the top, prices, rents, fares, etc. are still going ug All monies and offers of support to b sent to the Strike Committee: 42 Hamilton Road. Stoke, Coventry.
- CLUB ONE STRIKE COMMITTEE Red Weekly fully endorses this appeal. Support so far has been encouraging.
refuse collections and deliveries to Clut One have been stopped, new films for screening at the Theatre One Cinema have been returned to the distributors and pickets at the Rialto bingo hall have with a good response The local students unions, the Unemployed Workers Centre and other labour movemen bodies have also provided meeting rooms and printing facilities, and arranged a nursery for the strikers' children.
But faced with the management's retusal to negotiate and attempts to workers contro in ine raciones, bur wnu TGWU uses its power to escalate the dispute. A drive to organise and improve conditions in otner cruos ano emtertam ment facilities in the area — particularly those owned by Orr - would allow the the bosses and show all unorganised and poorly paid workers that it is possible to TIont DacK agamnst Government's attacks on living standards.