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Mexico - women's committees back revolutionary Presidential candidate

Socialist Challenge No. 250, 18 June 1982 · p. 10 of the scan · 574 words

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Socialist Challenge 18 June 1982 SPARE BOOKS! Any books you want taking up valuable hursdays, 27 May ar He Law Centre e of im Centre Federation nd booking forms please write to 146 Kentish Town London NW 1 or ring 01-485 6672. Socialist Challenge Events Lone in mangal traction: Sun 27 as women in an independent part arena.

nevowconar Revolutionary Workers Party), Fourth International is not just the first woman for the presidency of the republic. Her campaign is the firs campaion which openly identities with and supoorts and popularises the activities and demands of the women's iberation movement.

On 14 March , hundreds of women packed the Cine Regis in front of Women's Come the Front of mittees in support of Rosario Ibarra.

Present in the presidium were, among others, representatives of te conone automoble workers; women's campaign support cities peasant counliy. representalive. of the Committee of Relatives of Political Prisoners, 'Miss ing Person: and Political Exwomen are organisin ticipation in the electora Trabajadores , Mexican section of the addition, were received from wonnell. rrenle can Desino neenenolenie (Independent Peasants Front)

an important and peasant organisation; yalivus women's Commullee. SUDOUTI KOsarIO Ibarra; and TrON committees telephone operators in support of the campaign.

Susana Vidales, representing the Provisional Commit of Women's Front pointed out that:

Rosario some sor peste ine represents a was the view tha women should stav at home or in the best of cases stick to "women's beared because of what is canaranc nusurio, wrue represens Rosario Ibarr: the final speaker. Companeras and compareros sale today ine code or ine inree loyalties still exists: obedience to the father, husband obedience the • brother son.

companeras and com wuneros, nas revorvee aroune ine existence of inree men — i was the daughter of Ibarra later the nand later, I was Piedra, the mount! "disappeared' by Jesus ¡Jesus wes Mexican paramilitaries)

'None of these three af filiations bothers me none or then ensoroces me companeros did / stari Rosario in Rosario When I began Dy Rosario Ibarra de Piedra when I began transform myself through the struggle.. ster Started Rosario the woman 'The capitalists' she said later 'the exploiters, ou enemite encourage some in correct miness corpenieni orinem inor women suoero • want people understand tha women conunue to be subor dinated and men continue to have their feet on our necks as they The are interested su vin tha womer seen uneration order everything that men do in an unjust political system 4I C lico terested ins. wanto petiny ake ine me of the capitalist class, like the men of the bourgeoisie of the want actión. that support equal rights for women. but we don't want to be ecuat to une corruot men or this country or of this world.' The plan of action cludes women's committees the course of th campalzi. col Terences on the situation working women rallies public market places in the provinces, a central rally in Mexico City and a wind-up press conterence o. women candidates and women's committees on

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