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Opposing the Labour right

Liberation Spring 1995 · 605 words

• George ings and erosion of workers' pay and conditions.

Thompson Ex-Tory ministers and Tee Yeren Labour Kuwaiti oil sheikhs rob Conference nrofits from companies like BT and BP, which Brighton on 4-5 Februshould be going to us. ary is the first chance The British Gas boss for youth in the Labour pays himself £500,000 Party to express their and it neglects safety opposition to the di- work. rection in which Blair All these companies is leading the party. chollie be renationalise• In the past 6 months he without compensation.

But Blair says now he's nas consistenty tarea to stand up for young peo- not even going to renationalise the railways ple's interests. He has refused to oppose the and mines.

We say, how can Laкатамотев то оаск- bour develop environslide on Labour's minimentally friendly and munn webe comminent and promoted the idea of cheap national transport and energy networks without taking industries Now the private schoolboy wants to ditch na- in these sectors into public hands? tionalisation (through rewriting Clause 4) and The nationalisation of the commanding heights argues the market can colve our croolems. Recent history shows of the chance c economy the market has produced constitution demands is needed today more than increasing homeless Never! Labour can never ness as it cannot provide realise its professed amattordable nousine Tor sale or rent. bition to achieve full emIlnemnlovment is a ployment, end the constant feature of it, motorway madness, sweep away cardboard and our livine standaros city, without such nation. are at the mercv of sharks who through a ascions.

Liberation! urges all dav's successtul gambling on the pound in the conference delegates to register their disgust at currency markets can make billions at our ex- Blair's recent pronouncements and to debense Opposition to Post Of- fend Clause 4. Only by *ce privatisation shows Young Labour rejecting tre sub a now has little the neo-capitalist poli-==-arre: Priva cies of the party's curer: eacers will it attract =5: heights of the lationalisotion of the commandina tive society and a system where women have a lower status than men.

It obvious that most pornography today isn't about sex - it's about sexism and men's power over women.

It's filled with repetitive images of weak women, ruled either by their sexual 'appetite' or by the men around them.

In a largely restricting society witn nga ana re pressive hierarchies pornography is a form of male dominance over wollen.

Pornography is used -just like all the other sexist products of our society - to make men think that women are objects male Inal gives birth should she be the one house bound?

Women's position is often dependent largely on meir economic dostion in society. It is nollne uo in cantalism.

A working woman .with ner own wage can de Independent of a male partner and a familv if she wants to be. But if that's her choice it's said to be wrong by the moral right and the Tones.

Major's "back to ba sics scheme" was alleg edly in order to crack crime, prevent delinquency and so on. In fact it was a hysterical campaign used as a means interests Sexist ideas and images reduce the value and no rance of women and the choices they try to make for themselves.

Sexism presents women as passive, not as powerful beings.

The capitalist class and all the teachers, writers and idea makers' they employ tell us that women should be subject to men's desires and are irrelevant. politically.

So sexism divides the sexes meaning that, for examnle the unequal di vision of labour in society is legitimised.

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