thin our own party we find it difficult ommunicating with women in for eximple the Taylor orkers Union.
It is therefore much more difficult us to communicate at a political vel with women in the white nions like NALGO and the CPSA.
ow do you see the fact that a male like the NUM has supported whereas a union like sn't?
at's clearly a political difference beten those two unions. It also proves at it is possible for men to take a prossive view on women and be suppormake for the future?
I think ine reason arguments have wones already women's HER 1 are not elected by national WEAL conterence.
decisions ES NU UNHER have even on a non-elected body.
National Labour ICe.
titude to WAC's demands?
listening to other uncommon, the party, bodies within the party.
ple like Kinnock what other men are thinking.
has not been listening.
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ficult for him to doing that.
Garment collar for example Hobsbawm, ability to organise themselves. I'm very COHSE opposed to that political analysis as a whole. leadership will soon change its mind. In your reply to Bea Campbell in MarxI know it is possible, what I regret is that it is not more widespread. But that is explained by a political difference between those unions and it is clear from this that women are more likely to gain support from left unions than What is the significance of the fact that lILO Labour Women's Committee is going TOOLEDIS year? Why do you think that is, and what difference do you think it will right.
Is because the largely been won une Women's Committee. It is also because those women have recognised that it is support three of WAC's demands and women on the nationa committee who nevertheless realise that they have to defer to that conference's which shows how much impact a rank and file conference can I would stress that, in fact, because we are going to have a big fight over Women's CommitWhat do you think about Kinnock's atI think that like many men in the party he has simply not bothered to listen to what we are saying. Instead he has been men. and that's not that happens throughout section where we don't have any direct channels of communication with the leadership or with any powerful right Therefore other men talk about our demands and explain our demands and naturally peo- vacuar - men like Kinnock interpret our demands in terms of That's why, for example, in his article in City Limits he could only describe our campaign in terms of the tactical advantages that other men would gain from it. So I think that simply the man one from But I think that soon it will be difavoid listening to women. Especially if this women's conference is united in the expression of its support for WAC's demands. Then it will be very difficult for him to avoid But I suppose on the political level limits. one must admit that the view of the leadership is not very different from the view of some intellectuals on the left, who believe a move. that women are just a kind of nebulous cannot be organised. It is a profoundly defeatist view of women's of within the forums of both our movement and the And I hope the
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