A painful process | IMGpapers 1980

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the first issue and sold practically all of them. We have not looked newsagents as the basic outlets, have rened trom . the start on shoc stewards selling LICE meetings Nor do we look for commercial adverts, and we won't use Trades Council funds give work commercial printers. Some members of the NGA may object to this, but the fact is that if one tries to professional and commercial it just can't be done. We don't have the money or the resources and we get ripped off.

We encourage our printworkers to lend their skills to the movement. This is what counts. In our opinion Hull Trades Council were a little too fast and too ambitious.

Copies of Preston Worker are available Council, John Parkinson (Secretary), Hammond Street, Preston (tel. 54616).

but branch sexuality and relationships.

to be too cannot be reduced to class division.

oppressive forms of masculinity.

Trades ourselves with other men. This has been for me not a pampering and preserving of male ego but has been at times a painful process, facing assumptions built into my Achilles Heel magazine for me is an attempt to make public and sharę experiences and understandings gained from men's groups. I don't see this as a diversion from my activity as a revolutionary socialist. To echo Beyond The Fragments, socialism is not just anti-capitalist combat, it is the struggle for an alternative, creative and genuinely caring society.

The autonomous movements have shown that all oppression in our society present Tory administration, which reaches out to the greed, envy and hatred that capitalist society generates in individuals, depending heavily on sustaining As a socialist I feel I cannot be passive in relation to my socialisation as a man, leaving it to the struggle of women and gays to redefine my role in society I believe that men's groups and the exploration of masculinity in Achilles Heel indicate the part which men can play in fighting sexism, not just by giving a measure of support for feminist campaigns, but also by actively changing Achilles Heel costs 65p [incl p&p] from 7 St Mark's Rise, London E8 2NJ. Please make cheques/POs out to Men's Free Press.

Socialist Challenge

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Socialist Challenge