our 'proper sphere' in the home.
the family.
assault.
Potential confident. identity, society.
media the Indeed, 'Al, but hold on comrades. our daily lives.
Natural the in continued oppression. countal! inevitable and even conmendable.
had sustaining competiion from Jewish people.
Garcia scape-goats.
controls, keeping protecting the British against 'foreigners' The real roots deprived living conditions confusion.
Over a hundred class for a wage to live by.
position in the family.
Sure, there will be so saccessful rolation 'THE DUTY of men and husbands is to bring about a condition of things when their wives should be in their proper sphere at home instead of being dragged into competition of livelihood with the great and strong men of the world.' Thankfully, much has changed since, the TUC made this statement in 1877. Across the globe women have asserted that we, too, want to be strong and independent people of the world. We have said No to the subservience dependence and discrimination bound up with In our millions we have thrown off a role of passive self-sacrifice to the needs of husbands and children in the Vallium-coated isolation of We have taken to the streets against the butchery of the back-street abortion, to assert our right to control our life and body as we choose, and to create the conditions where we can walk the streets without fear of sexual have taken strike action against discrimination. in the workplace and have images passivity and dependence foisted on us by churn out picture of revolutionary socialists as maniac disciples of destruction. In reality it is capitalism which destroys our potential of human creativity and liberation. As socialists we seek to create a society in which everyone can have a life free distortion, degradation, and deprivation forced on us by class society.
This socialist struggle for human liberation is not worthy of its name if it ignores or belittles our fight as women for our own liberation.
the society we are striving tor enriched by the relations which movements for women's liberation show to be possible.
We have to destroy capitalism before we can talk of a fight for women's liberation.' How many times have we heard this in the socialist movement?
Who are the 'we' who will destroy capitalist power? 'We' just happens to include millions of women who cannot afford to wait to remove the crushing weight of oppression we face in If this struggle is so secondary, why does the ruling class try every trick in the book to thrust us back behind the kitchen sink and on to sexis advertising hoardings? Dare we suggest that the ruling class nas somethine to can from ow By this means, our can be pushed aside as natural, Let's look more closely at what the TUC 1877. Men's difficulty livelihood is put down to workers. And of course the same can be argued about black and How pleased the ruling class must be when it sees the working class dividing in battle against when workers march down blind alleys to defend jobs and living conditions under the banner of immigration women in the home nation and products of unemployment and the capitalist - is shrouded in a mist of political years after the statement, these attitudes still prevail. We are told that equal pay brings down male wages, so • long live male differentials. Ignored is the fact that women's fight for a decent living wage strengthens the struggle of the whole working We are told that women's jobs, nurseries and sate fertility control are dispensible whe we have to tighten our belts. After all, everyone has to make sacrifices; the country can't afford women the luxury of escaping their 'naten!
So the battle against capitalist domination i diffused. How can we possibly tackle the rea enemy when it's not clear who this eseasy is!
Our response must be to disperse the without revolution — bat there's no cha rela