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I think that there isn’t enough emphasis on women’s liberation issues, which is a massive problem especially given that some major struggles – from the Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow to the attacks on women’s reproductive rights in the United States to all over, it seems to be working class women who are bearing the hardest brunt of neo-liberal and neo-conservative attacks.

There is, as you pointed out, a tendency on the socialist left to leave questions of women’s emancipation to the women. It’s somewhat like thinking that questions of anti-racism should be left to black people and that white people have no role in breaking the racist system.

Are you going David?

I’m genuinely very interested in the conference – I’ve talked to some of the comrades quite a lot about porn/sex workers.

I think it’s really important that men respond to an event like this, particularly given that there’s so much philistinism on the Left – so many groups who ignore women’s rights for the sake of making friends with religious reactionaries. The SWP even have meetings about why women are freer in Iran than in the West (They are “allowed” to wear the veil, not like in French schools!)

We must stand up for basic socialist liberation principles

Also LGBT people. But as well as the issues with women (more likely to self harm ) when it comes to suicide the highest group is young men .

I will see if I can find any links.