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"None of these three affiliationsso to speak-bothers me, none of them disgraces me...But when, companeras and companeros, did I start being Rosario the woman, Rosario by myself. When I began to struggle, when I began to transform myself through the struggle....Then I started to become Rosario the woman.
"The capitalists," she said later on, "the exploiters, our enemies, encourage some incorrect things. It is convenient for them that womens liberation is conceived of in a certain, special way. They want people to understand that women continue to be subordinate and men continue to have their feet on our necks, as
They are interested in saying that women seek liberation in order to do everything that men do in an unjust political system. These are lies, women aren't interested in this! We don't want to be filthy like the men of the capitalist class, like the men of the bourgeoisie of this country! We want actions that support equal rights for women, but we don't want to be equal to the corrupt men of this country or of this world.
The plan of action includes meetings of the women's committees in the course of the campaign, conferences on the situation of working women set for April 30, rallies in plazas and public market places in the provinces and a central rally in Mexico City on May 9, and a wind-up press conference of women candidates and women's committees on the development of the campaign scheduled for June 18.
Celebrating 50 years of world revolution by Paul LAWSON never doubted that only the Fourth International could win the full socialist democracy that we fight for, said Charlie van Gelderen to the 150 people who came to pay tribute to him at a party last Sunday.
The party was paying tribute not only to Charlie's 50 years of activity in the Trotskyist movement, other founders of the movement in Bri-
Many of these pioneers were rein a fighting speech by Harry Wicks, 78-year old veteran of Brıtısh Trotskyism. Harry paid particular tribute secretary of the Trotskyist movement in the 1930s, tragically killed in the 2nd World War.
Harry also explained the role that Charlie van Gelderen had played in the
Most of all, Harry Wicks paid tribute to Charlie's unceasing activity in fighting for Trotskyist ideas in the broad labour movement....
Hosted by Pam Singer and Stella Coyle with songs from Alan Freeman and Chris Guthrie, the participants followed the course of revolutionary struggle over
Bringing greetings from the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, Livio Maitan explained how isolated the Trotskyists were in the early days. He recalled speaking at an Italian Communist Party meeting as a young man. said the workers there, it what you say is right, then Togliatti is wrong.' And even more decisively: 'and Stalin must be wrong'! When he said yes, all the workers thought he was crazy.
Steve Potter, national secretary of ing to build the Trotskyist movement in Italy and South Africa as well as in Britain. As a young serviceman during the war, Charlie helped to organise the first Trotskyist group in Italy, and still possesses his membership number one of the Italian Trotskyist Trotskyist perspective of revolution had been fulfilled-the past fifty years had seen revolutions all over the world. Some people argued that your revolutionary fervour declined with the years, he said, but his hadn't. 'So don't betray, don't give up the fight' was his message.
Nonetheless, he expressed his pleaof Revolution It is on your shoulders, he said to the young comrades present 'that the struggle will be carried forward.'
(From Socialist Challenge.)