IN A SECTION entitled "the immense work of our party the Central Committee report of April 1978 refers. last of all to the question of women. The activity et our party is estimated there as a m_it greater contribution thousand speeches from those who mAto cIve us lessons on this subject.
We are told that 'our activity must certainly be enhanced and improved': as Communist women we have searched in the report for the rudiments of analysis which could enhancing.
What does the party propose in this: phere? Speeches, petitions, Central are not unimportant but which are insufficient to challenge and cradicate backward consciousness.
DRAFT LAW Wearscaferred in the draftlaw for family" forward by the party in the National Assembly, as the decisive clement of a campaign in favour of WORL BELLEISEN AROATO ET aud women, Communists or not? In MOST CUSS ME HES TEAL BOLSHIVEL tucked away in the drawers of our sections?
at been discussed the the 220,000 CommunWHITETT Out comrades? Who was it presented by? HURICE WORCE ASCECCE that is, by the Communist group in Recently, to be sure, we have read rape.. But has the party encouraged motsalon acase sexual vance in all its forms, the daily hazards and anguish of women?
OPENING The report discrectly refers to what theory What was here? on the eve of the gatherings at the Mutualite. publicity had ooce again been very Limited. There were Communist women there.
However, at the meeting in which Christine Buci-Glucksmann and Jean Elleinstein (prominent PCF dissidents eds.) look part, discussions between and Communist women developed which showed a new way or orgag pouss to life. It was an opening from which But there was ta word of this in l'Humanite the daily - eds.J. Hardly any of us knew whar had happened there.
Why should all those who first spoke out for, made a commitment to, publicised fought contraception and abortion, against link up women's struggle with thi lessoosand reduced to COBOLES teounists: (Jaoques Frémontier in Humanite Dimanche, 8 June 1975)7... "NATIONAL INTEREST One should recall here the firm opposition so birth control' projected law put forward by the PCE in 1956. The demographic argument SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 22 Jane 1978 paga 10 DU from the Cannes Festival [below!. put invoked in this project was taken up again in 1973 in the proposed law on Two abortion and the interruntion The pregnancy in terms of the "national herest -few If it's a matter of 'lessons', the party has recognised that they wer well-founded without saying so, b changing its position after a delay int trying to adapt пов- demands raised by the bberation movement and tennists while at the same time continuing to DELAYS Has the party made progress? Yes But how? By increasing the number of speeches whose content testifies to a For example, there are vey few tests 115Y1 in which lie wore woman is noi Immediately associated with the word Equally based on this association 'mocagre In other festosis. we do not ber the necessity of laws and above all of such a law. Bur what is a law by issell? What does its field of applicacion become it it object of an ideological battle!
Wis are there delays, or these advances so restricted that they themselves become delays? What has become of the PCFS practice of taking IMAGES of Franch women. Anti-rape demonstrators protest at pornography [above], and scene 1925, when they were eligible neither difficult for our party today to be in the vanguard of women's struggles?
SEESHIE are not opposing, as is women to men, women workers te male workers.
reduced lo an she underpoes at the hands of men.
"specific inequalities'
struggle and collocted is completely ignored...
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which led the Communists to present women in the municipal elections in Malakoff and Villejail as carly as to vote nor to stand? Why is it so ideology?.
How, in fact, It finds its origin in a presumption expressed in these terms by Gearges Marchais in December 1977: No, we if that means sometimes done, and of themselves, Whether Georges Marchais likes it undergo! attempt by cerrain sees it daily in the oppression which To be sure. the party taiks anaut to merge them immediately into the general struggle against "big capital" and sa crase this specitic character which the class Pary?... women's struggle are woten we will be The area of women's exploitation prioritised by the PCF is at work. In prioritising this area, the other areas couple and the family — are wlusked collective social facilities will not by isclf do pbenomena which develop in the part bastle police.
Tamily and the couple. These facilities are supposed to relieve women. Isn't that catber a strange idea of women, which thus firs in with reformist can we fight for equality without fighting against the way in which male ideology uses women in all areas of its application: in coucation, the family, work, sexual relations? How can we fight against rape without fighting sexual imuge that men have of women against the vilence which men make them NUMBERS ARGUMENT Finally, what about the position of Communist women inside the party? Is being in the Communist Party enough to declare oneself a Teminist? Is the Communie Party as it stands Tenninist because il is the Communist We are told that with our 220,000 the "parly of eds.]. women's bbcration: But the numbers prisone 'hackward consciousness.
Women's commissicas have bee set up in the party Iwe should note that our leadership, so nitricking in what concerns the statutes, is here toleratue unconsumona bodiest But the women in these contrassions Tibit of indifference on the meet Humerous of the leading bodies indifference or hostility from the men, That s why these commissions, which could have been the starting point fora new practice, are restricted in their activity.
RESPONSIBILITY It's also a question, of course, of for DOt yet having cinderstood whar is involved in such a Notling Is more crucial that the absenior Cof information, which reinforces the lack of mobilisation Women are in this way isolated from the struggles of other women curside the party:
A recent example: no information carriedn the party press announcing the protest demonstra Lion against the violence, actually the torture, inflicted on young Heide Kempe at the time of her arrest by the IDEOLOGY So, what can be done to make up here for what the Centril Committer of April 1978 calls the delay fol the partv) — particulariy alter 1956 — in clarifying its pobey and in theory?
It's necessary first to look reality in thetace, man's oppression of woman is very real, to lakest into account and recognise that the struggle against this oppression, help I 10 advance. We should also remember our door-to-door canvassing and the responses of women: My husband isn't in!"
Sexist ideology divides. including in the working class; what is more, il turns a good nubber of women away from the strugele. Women, but also men, have every interest in struggling BRainst this Idcolom which aims ta make one a superior being over the take this in.
NEW FORMS How can a party which, in the nie of rejecting contradictions, doesn't encourage struggle inside its very owi structures call Itself revolutionary through and through? The women's commissions must take up all aspects of women's struggles.
We must discuss out together the and take part in the struggles led by longer in an individual and isolated JUAALIUL BECUESS SEMES Along with Mireille Bertrand la member of the Political Bureau think that specific dernands, that is, the struggle for women's equalice, do nor end up ui a search for a stalic equality, but create on the contrary the conditions toi gemeral progress MICHELE GUENON ANNIE MEJEAN, JELIETTE NICOLAS PEGGY-INES SULTAN, NICOLF EDITH THEYENIN
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