IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

TENDENCY A

Red Weekly No. 94, 27 March 1975 · p. 8 of the scan · 209 words

The scan: rw-no94-mar-27-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 8 of the scan

posed anti-discrimination legislation prosses "equality for women', yet contains no provision for social facilities such as nurseries. The Comm unist Party claims to support women's liberation, but calls for defence of the "working class" family. By developing struggles against sexism in a revolutionary direction we will intensify these contradictions and so deepen the crisis within these organisations.

WOMEN'S LIBERATION en's and gay oppressions and our strategy and tactics for the struggle against sexism has played a major part in the IMG pre-conference discussion This is largely due to the impact of an autonomous Wom en's Liberation Movement upon the revolutionary left In the past, the IMG has maintain. ed an ambiguous attitude towarda the WLM. we have recognised its importance in initiating and developing strugales agsinst sexism, but the majority of the outgoing IMG leadership (grouped in Tendency B) has failed to grasp its potential because of an empirical analysis of its origins and social composition. The WLM cannot be analysed simply in this The debate on the nature of wom-way because its theories, demands and Family. Our campaigns must comb campaigns have influenced much wider layers than that from which it originally sprung. The overwhelming vote at the TEC Women's Conference cartier this month for free

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