"cuban Arms"
Woman Worker1981 1981-03-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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WHY WOMAN WORKER?
positions of leader. free abortion and contraception on demand the barracks and gang-raped, officers first; entire landless peasant workforces massacred for asking for a wage rise; worker militants tortured and killed for organising strike action; peaceful demonstrations shot at by army snipers .. a level of brutality we acquiesce in if we fail to organise solidarity action here in Britain. After all, it's Britain's ally, the USA, and Thatcher's pal Reagan who are propping up this regime. day 30 people are assassinated or disappear.
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 programmie, 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 or sauer- lan das ship 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 Unfortunately indeed, the only outside military involvement is that of the US since the Soviet Union and Cuba have been so reticent with their aid-contrary to Reagan's claims that "communist arms are flooding into the country.
price increases as assessed by elected committees.
*For strike action ana 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 shortion and contracention 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. solidarity with the oppressed masses over the world.