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NORTH EAST DURMAM Socialist Challange Nonnem Hock on High How, SAMSUEUSO players, trainers, managers as well as the socctators are overwnelmingly trom there is a direct progression from kids kicking a tin can in a hackstreet to For the spectators who pack the terraces, football is a manifestation of culture, based on solidarity, collectivism and a 'team' This is in stark contrast to more bourgeois sports individual the Football provides an escape from the dehumanisation and alienation of the workplace, dole queue and home. This forms a displaced militancy: a real, though unproductive, response to an oppressive and thoroughly drudgery On the other hand, today's soccer is The fan/consumer target for activity. advertising magazines, sports equip week, CVCD recording industry has a product to The media are able to divide the local chauvinismi historica in origin, The backstreet kid to international star real life fairy 19th tales add weight to the laissez faire ideology that we can all make it to the Similariy, the pools give hope to there individuais the knowledge that they stand a slim chance of becoming rich enough to oppression. The frustration burned out on the terraces is a bonas to the working class as a containment of militancy outside of does get out-of-hand through attacks on shop private property, State is piven the excuse to stress the law and order theme and step up Mike Hitchcock and John Evans tbe Black Dwarf, May 1970: "Football belongs to the working class as precious little eise does. It is more than just a game. It is a part of genuine working class "However inarticulately, it expreses a kind of class solidarity and a kind of opposition to bourgeons But like every other equality aspect of our society and our lives, it faces the penetration of capitalist values and capitalist control. That is (newsagent) in Linthorpe Street.
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SOUTH WEST Apal SOUTHAMPTON Socialist Challeng aaka every Salurday from 10am 1P 001185 SOUTH EAST COLCHESTER Socialist com Futher Socialist fantasies YOUR Battle of Ideas supplenient of vomen's liberation made a highh dubious incursion into prehistory in order to discover the existence of sexually unrepressive societies before emergence of classes. Women need no spurious historical precedents (nor biological justifications) to give credence to their struggle.
Sixty to cighty per cent of food supplies in hunter-gatherer societies were provided by repetetive female Whereas hunting responsible for only proportion of food intake it was both a more pretigious and a less consistent A man might bunt for a and then rest and entertain himself for the next three Your statement that only with the emergence of property, "New Family forms grew up: patriarchal family formes with men at the head, so that the paternity of children could b guatantced. is hased on absurd century mythology around These societies were patriarchal with complex kinship systems. However are still societies which are matribiocal and matrilocal, and in some of these a child's paternity is almost completely irrelevant. But in these cases it is simply the mother's brother rather than hushand who is the patriarch. Paradoxically wornen ute ofen more represseu l these systems with the whole weight of their immediate family permanently with them.
It is another popular misconception that there was less leisure before Lhe agricultural revolution quite the reverse is true. The search for food took under four hours a day, far less than a peasant's labour. So it is not a question of men being suddenly released from the ardours of survival to enjoy a position of exploiting others with tbese new techniques of food production.
It is clear that your analysis is weak and class-reductionist. It suggests that look hazy prehistorical fantasies are feminists for whow "the strugele for socia lism has no place. The left has placed sexual politics as Melens Int, Vinon SCOTLAND 25 April, and horinighliy For internal on Milie Galunday aboroon!
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Challenge GLASGOW WHILE RECOGNISING the autonomous' arisen from the consciousness of, for instance, women, gays, and blacks, it would appear that the IMG is not going to "ballle" because il sees them separate from itselt, and indeed trom Marxism!
Debates (on the liberation and MOCAS Te o Tow Deman to infiltrate the left wing of the workers. movement.
have all the answers'. Quite so. Bur it woeld be idiocy to pretend that many teminists and cass are not 815c Marxists, as others, implies. The IMO preaches while continues lo patronise women, and so on, by assuming chat "workers" are only white, male, heterosexual. While correctly repudiating econo mism and "rank and filism', the IMG has ignored This has reached, Importantly involved, thousands of people in campaigns ahout redevelop ment, homelessness, government accountability.
Squatters fights Criminal Trespass potentially occupations, work-ins, etc received scant coverame In sociais Challenge — when massive pitched battles surround solars in salv. the IMG's much-flaunted "internationalism" breaks down!
Moreover, "community politics" an dominated hy political work in factories" that they politics at work and at home that they necuse British social democracy off Sadly, there is no recognition of the changing terrain of leh politics by the IMG it's the same before. It proposes the formation o rank and fie organisations that tre 'politically independent' of the Trade TOr Union burcaucracy. But they do not suggest bow that bureaucracy crealed and is maintained: why won't these rank and "degenerate" in the same way!
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