is a social, not a biological product. Nor is it to deny CaDilallsill also uses and produces women's opPression.
The point about an women's autonius movement is that women understand their own oppression Class analysis will not always be satisfactory. demands on all locations ei power - the state, and groups. The left does not need to cling to its notion ai the class struggle as the only real one that explains all other points of opprespatriarchy is essential explaining the complexity experience A return to traditional aconomist Marxism that at condemning feminism as a bourgeois deviation would almost be preferable to all lovelicit the analysis it adopts.
Newcastle-U-Lyme THE gang of Almost exactly the day (1 cals March Oswald Mosley his break he had the disillusioned the tact reconstruconly actually Like Democrats, Mosley in class politics. wanted his both and lavoul.
He decided that his supporters should cut themselves adrift from the Labour Party and appeal as duch political force, to attract the disparate elements in British society.
At this stage his 'New Party' was not a fascist party. Its appeal, like that of the Social Democrats, as a counter to the 'sterile class politics' of the other parties.
by-election at Ashton-under-Lyne. Labour seat, gave the New Party its first chance to put its policies to the test. Its intervention resulted in a Tory victory.
John Strachey, who was at that time one of Mosley's main aids, describes the scene outside the town hall when the result was pounced: "The crowd was violently hostile to Mosley Party.
LIC roared at him, and, as he The said to stood tacing it. me: "That the crowd that has prevented anyone doing anything in England since tre war.
At that British fascism . was born. At that moment sion, and of some personal danger Mosley found himself symbolically aligned against the workers.
'He realised in action that his programme could only be carried out after the crushing the workers and their organisations.
One does not wish to carry the parallel too far; the Gang of Four are not of the stuff which produced fascist leaders. But their programme is fundamen tally an anti-socialist and therefore anti-working class programme.
Their intervention might well result in the defeat of Labour and another four years of lory misrule. The British working class will never forgive them for this!
CHARLIE VAN GELDEREN, London