RESIDENTIAL school with en-suite rooms, within 200 yards of LECTURES and WORKSHOPS, as well as the vital BAR, CRECHE, and FREE SPORTS facilities. £80 waged, £30 unwaged. £20/£7.50 deposit secures a place. Write to Socialist Outlook, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU. FIVE DAYS of study, discussion and fun. Plenary sessions will draw lessons from • ITALY: Mussolini's march from social democracy to fascism • Revolution and counter-revolution in SPAIN • Germany: the fight for the united front. • Fascism TODAY. • RACISM in Fortress Europe Plus workshops, and additional themes: • Marxism and the National Question. • Women's Liberation. racism is so ingrained that many democrats opposed to the FIS and the FLN would never consider voting for the FFS because it is seen as a Kabyle party.
At the moment the FIS hardly exist in Kabyle. They have a few individuals in some villages and one or two offices but they are very much a minority. But there's not a great difference in the position of women.
The Family Code is implemented everywhere: It doesn't just apply to Arab women. In some ways the situation of women is worse in Kabyle because it is mountains and small villages and macho traditions are even stronger.
Yet since the legalisation of parties a very important Women's Association has developed in Kabyle, which is the only one that continues to function openly since the freezing of politics in 1992.
They have begun to raise consciousness, more and more women are comnng to meetngs was an important national question. The first repression after the war of liberation was in Kabyle. Movements around the Berber question have continued: there is a certain level of political awareness. Rejection of the government was nothing new in Kabyle. That is why the FIS did not have anything new, anything attractive to offer in Kabyle.
Women in Algeria need international support.
In France we are working with an association of Mahgrebin women to resist attempts by the fundamentalists to impose their control over women in Hrance.
We have also got support from women in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. Whilst I was in Britain I met with Women Against Fundamentalism and Southall Black Sisters, who are discussing what can be done in Britain to raise the issue of the repression of women in Algeria.
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 63, 1 June 1994, Page 13