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PREPARING FOR POWER

*SUMMER SCHOOL 13~20 JULY*

REVOIIITINNARV CAMMIINICT DARTI

(1984)

A GUIDE TO

ON WOMEN

SESSIONS

Full conference — weekend only £5 (£3 Registration fee:Full conference £12 (£8 Creche provided free of charge (book in advance). To register in advance contact:Ann Burton

BM RCP

London

WCIN 3XX

or phone 01 274 3951 Women's course only £5 (£3 unwaged) E Enclosed.... unwaged) unwaged)

are they? conferences. Why aren't women fighting - or to Britain's first National Women's Liberation It's nearly 15 years since 1000 women turned up a future? something more.... substance? Carol Taggart asks whether it is just women's women's position has changed little but the Movement Conference in Oxford.

4 The roots of sexism Where does sexism come from? What gives it The Women's Liberation Movement - has it matter of changing ideas, or is there movement no longer holds Today Life, Ireland, Marxist Economics and Problems of the British Revolution.

and you can go to specialist courses on Imperialism, Problems of Everyday Censorship and pornography Bourgeois morality and sexual freedom Sylvia Pankhurst Racism and women Other workshops include: women at the weekend and in the evenings too.

from 2pm - 4pm each weekday, but there are lots of other workshops on The Communism, Feminism and Women's Liberation course is scheduled Preparing for Power runs from 13 - 20 July every day from 10am to 10pm.

Women in the Soviet Union Eleanor Marx Alexandra Kollontai and the Bolshevik Revolution Women and fascism Women's committees in the miners' strike Women in the labour market subjection is most intense in the home.

Burton explains.why. men to do the washing-up?

we demand wages for housework? Do we want Should communists be anti-family? Should Women's Ann life, 24 hours a day. surface of male domination. Ann Burton asks feminists argue that Engels only skimmed the 3 Family life and Sexual oppression oppression is reflected in every sphere of social What do women do during their leisure time?

2 When the working day is done whether the old man got it wrong.

continues to provoke controversy - many emergence of private property. His analysis Barrett explores women's of the oppression of women still rages.

token reforms the eighties may turn out to be a state, in which women will face new attacks from the relevance. The eighties promise to be a decade discussion is not one of decide what is the best way to fight back.

need to know what we are up against and to own way. To make our resistance effective we decade of reaction. apparatus. If the seventies was a decade of establishment's cultural and ideological State. A century later the debate on the nature Origin of the Family, Private property and the We aim to make sure they don't get it all their It is a hundred years since Engels wrote The the employers and from mere academic This the series of discussions and debates around struggle for the extension of women's rights.

talking about practical issues — the role of fight for women's liberation. We will also be and problems such as - the role of men in the issues that are often trivialised or ignored. The Engels linked the oppression of women with the 1 Why are women oppressed?

Liberation includes the following workshops: different aspects of working class politics.

Preparing for Power conference — a week long Revolutionary Communist Party's This course will run as part of the women's groups in the miners' strike and the women still be oppressed after the revolution?

course will focus on questions such as - will Revolutionary Communist women to confront Liberation is a Communism, Communism, Feminism and Women' Feminism and Women's course organised b annual