Time for a women's movement

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday December 23, 2002 00:09 by Karen - Organise-ASF/Womens commission womenscommission at yahoo dot co dot uk PO Box 505 Belfast BT12 6EQ, somewhere up north

Following the gender workshop which happened during the last Grassroot gathering in Belfast, I would like to remind youse people that we are still working on it and I hope the next GG will have a workshop on the issue on more practical tactics. the women's movement in western europe has come to a dead end. I would like to link it to the class struggle perspective. In recent years when it has been so cool to go to protests against globalisation most of us tend to forget that the struggle is at home. Yes, it is good and great that today we have such great links with others around the world but no matter what the statistics say, there is a majority of oppressed people in our country and we must stand with them first or else we will have no strength. And most of us, at least myself are