WOMEN'S
Women's Liberation is entering a new phase. Ever since it recovered from the shock of seeing 600 women at the Ruskin Weekend, it has on tne one nand been trying to tina a certain amount of common ground among the varied groups, and on the other hand has accepted that it can, must and will be a mass movement.
The Women's National Coordinating Committee* includes every Lib group that agrees to join. In spite of disagreements it represents the bravest attempt on the left to work in unity. It is not a single-issue campaign (to say that it is would be to seriously misunderstand Women's Lib) and the movement includes a wide diversion of interests, yet at the meeting on 5th-6th October agreement was reached on a good number of points. The groups have agreed to work on three campaigns-for free contraception and abortion on demand; adequate nursery facilities to free women from their total responsibility for child-care; and equality of opportunity in education and trainingand the main demands and slogans of these campaigns have been accepted. Considering that complete agreement is necessary before the Committee can do anything in its own name (which does not exclude any group from simultaneously pursuing its own line in its own name) a tremendous amount was agreed upon. At the same time dissatisfaction was expressed that there was no campaign around women as workers, and it was agreed to start a written debate and to discuss again at the next meeting. The Committee has an uncensored journal, women s ouuggle, producea Dy groups on a rotd basis. How many male-dominated organisations could cooperate at this level?
one or une nignugnts or une weekend was a report from Jo O'Brien (of Socialist Woman) on her North-East American speaking tour. What emerged was that the American movement is rapidly becoming a mass movement and is taken so seriously by the media that every newscast, every paper, contains some report of it. Of course there are tremendous differences between our movement here in Britain and the States; Jo explained one aspect of this-the often virulent anti-male attitude of many American groupsby recounting some of her experiences on the streets of New York. Here in Britain at least male chauvinism wears a polite face, although it makes it harder to recognise sometimes.
Her account inspired the meeting at its second session to take the mass media by the horns. Women's Lib already numbers several media women amongst its adherents, and from their reports we know that 1970-71 is going to be the Year of Women's Lib (replacing Pollution as Number One Issue). As part of this campaign to become a mass movement. the Committee agreed to hold a conference in London in the spring of 1971 and a mass demonstration around the same time. What is important is that the Coordinating Committee is seen as the leadership of this movement rather than those women who pontificate from the sidelines and who are readily interviewed at the moment. Even more important is for the Left to accept the imporlance or women s Lib, otherwise the Women are going to reject revolutionary politics. Women's Lib is already coming out of its separationist phase, but where will it go from here? That is in the hards of the Left.
Leonora Lloyd *The interim address of the WNCC is c/o 3 Rona Road, London N.W.3.
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