What are little girls made of, What are little boys made of their 222SL seed yet they only Sometimes would take Zamora lo pay the who ploitative system.
they won 60 per Red Flag ment at every level. ine crop under went on delegations to landlords. Only a aDIC of higher the landlords.
It was Have passed COll pigs for - ne Turkish women ten own women in forced for male sexual in these impossible to itself.
Palestine, -South for PARLE because the peasants could not neetings their debts. The operated b terrible famine of 1943-1944 was when the police enter a disaster for these peasants and the Kisan Sabhas, peasant fronts Is Was We Signa of the Communist Party of In- neighbouring vill face the police dia, organised the struggle to win two-thirds of the cultivated crop. readers esca *Land to the tiller' became one of Kni the key slogans of the movement, as upheld the exRural Bengal was in ferment. In some areas the peasants managed to take two-thirds of the crop; in others cent. Peasants bur two-thirds of ti Some landlords were forced completely and They elected I look after decisions into action and t guare the area as any alack to the Women were active in this move- died They harvested The struggle tne kea rlag, uney encouraged the took part in the demonstrations; they the "liberated zones' At night they guarded the villages Kisan Sabhas, armed with agricultural implements. cases of wife beating. ( In Kakdwip and Hajong they took up and molestation arms against me ponce, minary, and women who carried the messages from one district committee to another, and on their way ic WUId about 9L uco-India's largest-selling biscuit A warning system arried out Women conch shells, bells, bugle ams and strength ople from Kisan Sabha Men hid more ent arrest from police knives, axes, nill powaer. In ented the police he nattle with Irrested men by their battle.
And break his rie him without a Killed because cond blacc Kisan also pust their own treatment in the home.
courts. In Harpur, a party cadre we woman of : a meetin alone ane allelpice rape her. The people's court order him to leave the area within 24 hour And here's what Parle Gluco is made ofine goodness of mik, wheat. sugar, giucost Be Wond Stecton Anard winne had gained confidence were forced to give them the respect they were due. How did these poor gather and landless women who had little time for meetings become so active during the Tebhaga struggle?
• peasant movements. Ilke ovement aimed had been led by Party as they had produc Women " in The poor peas a worked in the fields. The c product of their labour as m men's.
Bds was intensity ruggle Wal brought women to the nt. The villages were in turn Fuld not make so many den women.
respon took seThe spor me actor the fore. If a men sad of it. When & nder attack defence rom every quarter. Womer often SHIESI ICSDORC defence work aoWs The militancy of en's aragallas WACIC LIC strongest Visi worl people's courts became : a -TOI wome achands omen in Kakdwip, who were forcdemanded payment. wher theil husbands tried to get them to con tinue working unpaid they raised the ssue m me villare court Urban activists helped with political classes backing women's attempts to raise their own cemanes womenis role mae crane ed. They were not playing a subor dinate role in the struggle, they wert helping to lead the fight against the landlords. the economic front they became aware of their sexual subjugation.
Crushed But after independence the move ment was crushed me communisi was banned and the activists were forced underground. Although women cemancer releasi those arrested and punishment fo the landlords and police who had murders their activity in politics began to decline The Communist Party, even when it organise women but only for the fr- arall, inges of political activity. Domestic responsibiities began to dominate womens' lives once more:
Villages It was only in the revolutionary atmosphere when landlords were being driven from villages that women had the opportunity to challenge all the structures or power and contro that dominated their lives, including the power of f men. Yet even at tha nan bolt or suuggie uncy were fart Kisan came when they used their collective strength as women to raise their own demanes ane make sure cur vorce was heard.
This article is an edited version of one written by Adrienne Cooper in the July 1979 issue of Manushi, Indian Feminist Journal This jour nal is avallable Jrom. Ine Manushi Editorial Collectiv A-5 Nizamud. din East, New Delhi 11013 Socialist Challenge 31 July 1980
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