meaningless to say that everyone has 'equal opportunity' capital, and acquire property, when some people in reality own and control the means of production, distribution and exchange, and others do not.
Within the labour movement it is also a purely formal, and bourgeois application of 'equal opportunity' stops a political current such as Militant understanding that women and blacks are socially oppressed groups that do HOW CHICH the the workforce, or the lobung to men and walles.
That is why positive action, and positive discrimination is necessary to give women and blacks real equality -not a false formal equality that ignores reality and the effects of centuries of discrimination and oppression. onus is not on blacks and women to 'fit in'. t's the other way round.
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that blems of women The mass the miners' 'equal' The fight for The The be won.
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Owen the struggles black such as all demands waged with not for place! insuperable qualifications can the ensure that elected Parliamentary WAC evidence constituency parties all-male sewn up the male canThe cynicism hypocrisy of this position is breathtaking. The collusion of the NEC and its officers this cynicism hypocrisy would not be tolerated by genuinely democratic socialist If our Annual Conference were undemocratic so unrepresentative of the women of our then moves would have been made years ago against the NEC'S the Party's discrimination As it is a Conference in which 90% of those who cast 90% of the votes (the trade union delegations) are
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