IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Feminine

· Socialist Challenge No. 160, 14 August 1980 · p. 4 of the scan · 266 words

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page 4 of the scan

Bebel wrote in Women and Socialism:

It is truely not a lovely sight to sep womer even with child. with men in wheeling heavily-laden barrows railway sues. or ko ouserve inem lime and cement, or carrying heavy buds, os sises, or asea ber sorke or stones, labourers ing at washing coal or ironstone The women there are stripped of all that is feminine and their feminity astramoen macenooi. just as our men, in many different types of employment, are bereft of anything manly.

Nineteenth century capitalists did perpetrate a violent exploitanon or me acomae masse as a whole. Women and children were a symbol of the ruthlessness of that -WOMENS 'ASHBAs August issue now Features on the housing crisis and the job losses in. hosiery industry; a guide to the Employment Bill; articles on the closure of a women's hospital in Glasgow and on the treatened WUlliCIl deportation. Plus letters, local stories, campaign news, and a page one appeal for the lobby of the TUC for a woman's right to work, on September 1st. Womens Fightback costs just 5p, plus postage (up copieș for a 10p stamp). Send Women's Fightback, Ellington Street, London N7 paid jobs. The exploit female eas abon wolen want wilu cuculs fits of female labour ly down the mines hostile reacton.

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