Something cooking in European Kitchen?
IRENE BRUEGEL reports on the fifth European Socialist Feminist Conference Socialist feminists across Europe have been meeting over the last five years in an effort to build an • internationalist socialist feminism, to develop theoretical understanding and practical, supportive links.
One common starting point for West European socialist feminists has been that state ownership of the means of production does not ensure liberation; that the statist economics of the Soviet bloc rest full square on the super-exploitation of women; and that a totally different model of socialism is needed.
It is puzzling then that neither perestroika nor the turmoil in Eastern Europe appears to have generated any such feminist opposition: the voices of women have been absent. Indeed 'leftists" like Boris Kagarlitsky assert that women's oppression is not an issue, and that feminism is a bourgeois deviation.
Fortunately a different picture SOCIALIST OUTLOOK no 22, March 1990
WOMEN'S DAY AN ME. Women demonstrate outside Armargh prison,