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JIM MORAN, Derry • Watch out, there's a red pencil about All the letters on this page have been edited...so, please try to keep letters to 300 words.
I FEEL angry Coultas's article on the socialist feminist conference (30 October). It is inaccurate ana misiedae I Is accounl over the past three years and, with the exeption of Women's Aid and the Nationa Campaign, wholly abouu aclvities Liberation Movement.
This is not the national conrarence 1978 conference in Manchester. was a large national conference in London in March 1979, out of which came the proposals for a conference on Women's Oppression and Imperialism.
The present conference was not 'continually postponed'.
I WAS rather concerned to Ical article the OO DISA synagogue (9 UcloDer)
Although there is an obfascist front. plain to the left e need to ex Glc leucosily lu cumlval ailli Demost wea uches millions of Europeans and, the left itself.
Challenge Pauli Abram Leon's and Nathan ul awIl:
Weinstock's work. exnlain. ing our ideas on Jewish self-organisation and liberation and its contribuLull LIC mickaliolldl Tiene ror sociasn. anis should include many parts regional meeunes ane voser doolt vaere other events ferences.
lapse wcan ico. negative Women's movement.
first socialist feminist since the January There rational Front.
WARF was On the contrary, a coverage of the fight for Jewish rights in the Dovier union ane masten autooe and the Arab for example Syria and Iraq - as a part of anti-bureaucratic and capilalist struggies We need to explain the alternatives to Zionism that have and will exist Bundism and revolutionary (vial Aisiul. and heip to win Jew. ITOI ConIsIl Lo a struggle for Jewish liberaour programme Arab East and our position on lic slach JCWISI llalu ane JewIsn natiollal ana olner minorites in ine Aran world, for example MorocThis should emphasise our programme for the joint long time was spent planning it to allow detailed discussion of the theme, da, dne suucture. A resource ust oT Ts books, and articles was produced, and in of the country there were senes of talks. ano to prepare for the conValerie refers in her article to the colwomen Adainst Hacism ano Fascism (WARF) as an indication present time the socaust temmist currenc orte women s But this is much more likely to reflect the problems in Britain of developina a broad anti-racist, anti-fascist movement, which effectively challenges state racism rather than simply the activities of the an extremely important development for the women's and antiracist movements. oorn mneorercaiv ano in terms of the numbers of women it struggle of Jewish and Arab WUIKCIS both Vulsiuc Isac lo overlaron ine Israel and Arab ruling classes so as to establish nited socialist states of th Arab east. At the same tim we defend the right of selfdetermason • mre non Arab national minorities Our weakness has alloweo une israel coverent to divide and weaken the anti fascist movement by playing eration Organisation lastisL muynculs These with some of the leaders of - Llc mobilised around strudgles such as Grun. wick and anti-racist, demonstrations Valerie also refers to the ditficu ties that Scarlet Women has been experiencing financially and in involvement from diner SocHsTON ASIS discuss its political importance.
It is vital to have a forum for debate among socialist feminists issue ferent political positions adopted by Irish teminists. socialist Challenge snould De encouraging and supporting Women rather than attacking socialist feminists for not doing so.
Rather than expressing her political disagreements organisation of the socialist feminist con Valerie's article devalue many of the achievements of the socialst vemimist current ESTHER SARAGA, London N4 did have ii for example, llave links NaVAS Weeni or une oran the attempts ruling put it terests before those of the mass of Jewish people bi vigorously combating ant Semitism, by demonstrating our support for the fullest possible ceve oomen and by our opposition forcibe armle oid understand the fear unac.
•LIIC WOROS Jews Wv f will ,only weaken zionismh best champions Jewish rights international MARK SOLOMONS, Manchester anti-fascist •ne oes nor LODCr) which ne gave Ire ano made dicating how works Scarlet interesting aims and appears have.
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