[The bankrupt policies of the labour and trade…]
Woman Worker1980 1980-06-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: expect misread words, and now and then a caption or a line from a neighbouring story. For anything you quote, read the scan.
Scan page 3
The bankrupt policies of the labour and trade union bureaucrats has serious implications for women's fight against oppression. Forced to stifle the struggle for policies which will actually win disputes and begin to challenge capitalism, the bureaucracy has pushed womens' rights questions into the background.
In some cases the forcing of women out of employment and back into the home has been fostered by trade union leaders as a solution to their male members own problems.
Woman Worker is published by the Workers Socialist League as part of the fight to mobilise women together with the working class in the international fight against capitalism. As Trotskyists we are fighting to reconstruct the Fourth International-the world party of socialist revolution-to lead the struggles of the working class.
Our programme, based on the Transitional Programme, is directed towards linking women's struggles for democratic rights and against economic oppression, with the need to overthrow capitalism.
*Women to take on positions of leadership within the unions in order to fight for these policies.
*Joint price committees of trade unionists and housewives to organise the fight against inflation.
*For a sliding scale of wages on top of flat rate increases: for wages to be linked to price increases as assessed by elected price committees.
*For strike action and occupations to defend the health, education and social services and threatened factories.
*For open-the-books committees to discover the real financial state of the social services, and private companies threatening closure.
*For nationalisation under workers' management without compensation of firms that declare themselves bankrupt.
*Against all anti-abortion legislation-for free abortion and contraception on demand and workers and consumers control of the health service.
*Solidarity with struggles of women internationally against oppression by international imperialism or by the Stalinist bureaucracies in the deformed workers states.
Scan page 4
woman worker