KLMNOPORSTU IJKLETTERSTU Child oppression | Socialist Action 1983

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I WOULD like to raise the issue of child oppression in your paper.

Other oppressed groups such as women, gays and black people byvee far left but child lave been well taken oppression seems only to begın at school leaving age where the left are cuntalica However, I believe that children, another large group in society, are Hul icsscu naa those mentioned above and yet receive no attention in the left press.

For example, the recent series or WCYS CI education on ITV which raised very important points with no mention in Socialist Action.

Not only do children have to contend.with hypocrisy, and contradictions, sychological, physica ınd even sexual abuse from both parents, but also the scorn and derision irom teacners al school. Then there is the general autude within adult sociery ha: a child's they rệ cic v oDlecor ar to the sterect sed mas= of a boy or a er - =.: deviation is tarel! e tolerated.

Marxists recognise

inar women and children are oppressed by the family unit and that women need to organise against male domination. Young children are unabic lo organise, so ll is about time socialists raised the issue of child oppression.

Correct They should raise it not only because it is morally correct but because politically it is essenlal unal cmarer -through a more free and open uporinging be more receptive to wanting a tree and open socialist sociery. It is time that we demanded tha: children be treated as human beings. It is important to raise women's issues within the workne Cass ane aso children's, and the readership of Socialist esden -3= ..2.::

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:erens on the subjeci of chiidren.

Kenilworth, Warks Colours T-E •23e = sucT blaill!. Ine pia! itself, whilst reducing long novel of 600 pages to less than three hours performance, loses little e ir ide chic-chat vàn on evnd che! all howl ith monkey-like shrieks :heir amused disbelief.

The play, as the blurb says, 'as Britain now fights its way through another depression ... strikes an all too familiar chord'. HALF MOOM THEATRE

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