ON Tuesday 9 February, six members of the 'infamous' West Yorkshire Police -plainclothes — arrived on our doorstep for the third time in three weeks.
The first call was about arson attacks on sex/video shops in a suburb of Leeds and the other two calls were in connection with the attempted bombing of the Conservative Party headouarters. On the last visit they came with a warrant and searched our home including the children's rooms.
The papers taken were correspondence from well known women academics and publishers in Britain regarding a French theoretical journal, vowveres restions Feministes, whose editor in chief is Simone de Beauvoir, one copy of a British feminist women-only paper, and a graduate student essay on mensu dalon The police do not intertere in any serious way with violence from men to women and do not welcome comments on this point.
we volence lo women either from men in the home, street or in the police force is incontestable, our 'crime' is to contest LIS ISSUC The result is not greater protection for women but further violence - this time from the police.
As feminists we have organised our lives to afford ourselves the most protection • WC live together without However what we now face is the collective system of male nower — the polici When we push aside our husbands and our boyfriends we stand face to face with agents of the state We have been subjected to questions about being political, belng reminists, being lesbians, being Jewish, We have being women. had our only safe place violated, our home is now open house to the Yorkshire police force The new Police and Criminal Evidence Bill will give the police even more power than they have now. Already they harass members of we sack are une so communities in Britain now they are moving in on women.
Rather than giving
the police more power we should be demanding less power and more accountability to the people — we are the people.
JALNA HANMER, and DIANE HUDSON, Leeds control over workers' organisations and state.
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