WRITE US A LETTER - AND ENCLOSE A DONATION Sociulis Challenge 1 May 1979 Page 6 way The scale of aspects of OR W WE SHALL SATURIAY saw an enormous rally of anti-abortion forces in London. The doubtless helped by the press which had carried hysterical abortion stories throughout the preceding week.
The prospect of a Tory government will be cheering up the anti-abortion movement 100.
the way they are seen. law have begun organise together, thraugh the women's movement, to challenge how the family and class society have Forced us into centuries of submission, und to re-discover our history women have alwass borne children, bistori cally their social role has not compicies denned this. Nor undervalued because The development private property rapidly changed that because then some people accumulated wealth. while others had none. Class society threw up new forms of Patriarchal forms with men bead. guaranteeing patermity to ensure property could be handed on to the new Women themselves — like became valuable objects for exchange, because they could produce new human beings with potential labour to Gradually WETU deprived of any role in social more and more limited to their reproductive The advent of capicalism. with itsrigid division of labour, finally women's imprisonment in the family.
Through struggle, women bave won some changes in the l reactionaries" mobilisation But legal changes can't end women's oppression. This involves fundamental changes It calls for an independent self-organised women's move. men! lo fighr for women's needs. No can Win sheration on bebalf of women.
Al every level women need to organise - - in women's groups and campaigns, in caucuses in the unions, and in organisi tions like the national women's #guregate. recently won at the National Union of Students conference.
Women aren't the only appressed group in sociery.
Class society and cupitalism oppresses the working class as a whele.
In a society witbout classes the condicions for Inequality would not exist So in figbting for such a socialist society, women share a common goal with ei other forces fighting for the end ol capitalism.
The old slogan still stands. There will be no revolution without a struggle for women's Eberation, and women musE organise together to ensure this struggle takes place But there will be no women's liberation without a struscie to add their support to ensure that this strugele iberation af all l carried forward too.
Socialist Challenge OFFICIAL ROLL CARD HACKNEY CRAMMARSCHOUS HACKNEY STRFEI sp hroader.
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