allegations made al C exist majority vote.
BUIL LAZL where the problem has lain for SONG He scis WILl will of the majority. They claim that the meeting of LCND was rigged because las (The same allegation made of YCND, Dy le way, for the opposite because it was small!)
This year's AGM was big for one simple reason. in the vear ot an election. many constituency acLIVIDLO WELC moved organise around the issue. About 250 people attended the meeting, at least 200 of which were registered through their constituencies in advance. And they elected an executive they thought would fight best to defend CND's policies inside the Labour One of the AGM decisions - by a two to one Was comply with the Labour Partv's request to registe the campaign. This decision prompted a section ot LCND's executive, at its first meeting, to query the consequences will be painfully clear to the instigators.
The bosses press 'exdirty doings inside paign. Just as they exposed the so-called rotskvist Cowley democratic rights of all trade union activists. Allowed Those prepared to resort to the conspiratorial and witchnunting melnoas the right wing play straight inponents. Any healthy organisation Ilas i tactica and strategic differences.
Such differences exist inside CND at the present time: around the basis for discussion ot nuclear defence policy and around how to organise to defend Labour's unilaterpolicy (indeed, whether to defend it all!) and around what position CND should take on the freeze demand.
It is in the interest of all campaigners that such differences resolved oper. debate and democratic vote. any section of the move. ment attempts to resolve them campaign as a whole will -be the loser. THE Express (which is subtitled "I'he Voice of Britain'!) had a 42110 headline last Saturday 20 August.
Under the flyer "Revealed: The Sov the Camp' the front pag 'RED SHOCK AT GREENHAM'. The revealed that the women have had info from a red mole buried deep inside the base' on a delivery According to the Express: 'The Greenham women are strongly linkeu to une Left through their ties with Workers Revolutionary Party and other similar groups. Russian TV crew demonstrators outside Berkshire Copies of the Communist paper the Morning Star circulate at the women's camp.
Needless to say, the Express couldn't manage to camp who Weathes the camp was. did reveal establishment and their press will stop at nothing to discredit the left and those campaigning for unilateral disarmament.
Unfortunate v. leadership of CND seem way to help them out.
turn round, come into the liberation movement's concern and anger.
dreading another beating.
ing or giving pleasure to exceptions, the arms of their regular partner. Inner London Women Against Violence Against H'omen were asked to answer the following five questions for Socialist Action.
What is your definition ography?
Pornography is material, pictures and serds, whose purpose rouse those viewing and reading it.
Pornography is about the kinds of ematy that has been Pornography depicts a xuality that is consumable and is bason objectification.
Tes pt of olen depic do not make ontempt of women.
between soft-core porn and erotica since all rely on using women's bodies : the sexual gratification of men and such abuse and degrade all women. What do you see as being the relaionship between pornography and No man will wait at home for his wife or lover to return from a drink with the 'girls' Few men's chance of success at school, in the office, factory (or even dare we mention it in a political party) depends upon charmthe woman or women in positions of authority over them.
Unemployment for men, with very few does not bring with it the 'choice' of poverty for you and your kids or the sale of your body to women to gratify the hidden fantasies that they dare not satisfy in Women experience all these violations. pornography.
other forms of male violence?
Pornography is male sexuality.
culmale which of por- LUAL can learn pornography's is to sexually joyment of it.
produced by masculinity through an hatred and increase in actual women for hard-core Snuff, murdered in front of the cameras.
pornography?
that masculinist power Their experience and magazine adverts, male violence and pornography.
Below we the propaganda of black and reinforces men's violence of women in the name of sex.
It legitimates their fantasies and obvious hatred of women and promotes a violence against women is acceptable. One of the ways believe that women want rape is through reading repetitive brutal rape, and women s eventuat eu judgement hatred.
Within the dominant culture where women have made it limited political and social gains, one of the ways men have responded is by reasserting their escalation of violent pornography, paralleled by an azallisi example the movie Who do you think profits from write or Place, All men profit from pornography in is strengthened.
In addition, a specific class of men of male violence society's perpetuation of these attitudes — novels have become a focus of the modern women's As socialist women we are angry too. We sympathise with women's outrage at the depths to which the male sex can stoop and we which teach women to hate themselves. But we realise also that there are those in society who would repress any expression of a free sexuality in A clear analysis and demands that lead to action on this issue are long overdue on the left. To this end this supplement is devoted to a debate on how we as socialists and feminists should define, analyse and oppose present four views from women who have been involved with campaigning or writing about male violence and white and rich — has set up an industry in which a class of women whose sole function is the sexual servic- Willie. has been created ing of men.
Are you in favour of censorship against pornography?
Our definition of pornography is that it to hatred of women, and should therefore be sublect to the same political and social incitement _racia How do you think we will be most effective in opposing pornography and male violence against women?
We believe that all women should look at pornography to see the full extent of male violence and make her own decisions about what she should do. • For further information of discussurite on phone us cups, women cur phone c/o. A Woman's Hungerford House, Victoria Embankment, London WC2, 01-930-1584, or contact their local WAVAW group. CAROLE RUSSEL, a member of Oxford West Labour Party and a supporter of Socialist Action. also answered the same five questions, giving her view of the debate.
What is nography?
There is no absolute definition. right-wing says pornography is about sexuality. This covers and even just naked bodies.
The liberal view is not so different. They talk about arousing sexual pasthese course male defined ones.
Socialist feminists have to use an alternative definition.
women. Pornography is propaganda to violent women. It is the ideas, object to and not the form it takes. particular sexual acts of parts of the body shown.
What do you see as being the relationship between pornography and other forms of male violence! By defining pornography as propaganda for violence against women, we can avoid being side-tracked debates about how the particular forms of 'pornography' affect people. clearly is violence against women, there clearly magazines that glamorise it.
Most of the studies that try to find a link between pornography and violence or wire non-wine cauchll tion of predictably confused and useless. Goeb bels said:
Snray it Loud by Jill Posner which works invisibly, whole of life without the public having any knowledge at all of the propagandist initiative aest criteria, stands a very good chance of being etDEOS repression make cians urge your definition of por The militarism. sex education sexual passions are of What we object degradation oppression of socialist the content, we or which into long nored There films, DOOKS tempt to determine The results are therefore 'The best propoganda is that penetrates the the Class Struggle pornography FRI SAI millions, legally and illegally. Sexual creates a lucrative market for all sexual material Secondly there is also a crisis in the family. More women have to work to ends meet. More nurseries are closed down and the right-wing politiwomen to return to the home. In this context pornography or the one hand provides ammunition for Mary Whitehouse and others who want to see us all confined to the family. On the other it channels both female and male sexuality into patriarchal roles.
Lastly pornography is useful : with VOIC CO male sexuality boosts the macho image of the soldier/killer and helps to desensitize its consumers to violence.
Alexandra Kollontai Creating this e see sto this page who don't understand newspaper should discuss this question!
'What are the roots of this un forgiveable indifference to one of the essential tasks of the working class? How can we explain to ourselves the hypocritical way ir "sexual problems"
relegated to the realm of "private matters" that are not worth the attention of the collective?
has the fact been ig that throughout history one of the constant features of social struggle has been the atchange relationships between the sexes, and the types these relationships;
and that the way personal relationships are organised in a certain social group has had a vital influence on the outcome of struggle between y hostile sócial classes?
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