SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Cecil's victorian values

· Socialist Action No. 30, 21 October 1983 · pp. 5-6 of the scan · 428 words

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'YOU CAN cross Cecil Parkinson off the Queer list, sir. When Jak, the cartoonist for the London Evening Standard came up with these fateful words he didn't expect tion.

But angry lesbians and gay men from the Labour Campaign for Gay Rights Outrage! magazine occupied the newsroom on 10 October for ten minutes in protest.

This cartoon is only the atest in a long line of anti Labour filth to pour anti-Irish and antifrom the Standard which nas resulted in the GLC banning advertising with the paper.

GAY In attacking this cartoon LCGR shows up the hypocrisy 'Victorian values for what they are.

The ruling class and their media know that the gay ill-equipped to defend itself and so constantly attacks homosexuals to divert attention from its own moral degeneration.

(Gay Young Socialists) ONE THING can be said for the Tory really does believe in Victorian values.

What after all was the 'crime' for which Cecil Parkinson had to resign? It wasn't inal ne made love with Sara Keays*or ne one tenus onel relationship. No-one in the Tory leadership not even the farcical John Selwyn Gummer suggested he should resign crime was simply that it publicly. Those really were the values of Vic. torian England.

We can't help being reminded of piece Wilhelm Reich wrote entitled What is, sexual chaos? • It's contracting a sexual liaison for life without any previous knowledge of the partne it's 'sleeping' with a Parkinson — whose values?

working girl because Shes nol worth more while at the same time not askinike for 'something that' from a 'respectable girl' • It's the lewdness of a life of sordid prostitution, or the excitement caused by abstinence, over the 'wedding night'.

• It's making virile powers culminate deflowering • It's mentally pawing the image of a half naked woman up and down at then, at twenty, entering the lists of the nationalists in favour of the 'purity and honour of women'.

punishing the young for the offence of •alt making the adolescents that causes them to lose Suharaow • It's tolerating the pornography industry: • It's exciting adolescents with erotic films: removing the satin niturabulove sing satisfaction Reich was writing about Germany in the 1930's. But things really haven't changed much for the Conservative Party The Sun have they?

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