Not work, but liberation
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-06-03Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 12 →
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I HAVE become increasingly disturbed at the way many people who call themselves socialists continue to use pro-capitalist slogans such as "Jobs not Bombs" and "Fight for the right to work"
It certainly seemed very odd to see in last week's Socialist Organiser (No. 85) an article about how 'housewives' work in the home an average of about 70 hours a week at what was described as 'the hardest job in the world" , and then to see on the same page a demonstration for 'Women's Right to Work"
The last thing women need is work. Isn't 70 hours a week enough?
It really annoys me when people in the Labour and the SWP go on about the "right to work" and "what we need is jobs". I know that unemployment is a bad thing, but I'd rather be unemployed than working at the local armaments depot or building tanks or dying from asbestos Poisoning as some people in my town are.
What we need is nor jobs but, as Martin Thomas wrote " ... to abolish the system of wage-labour and domestic-labour, replacing it with a new division of labour, a new control by women and men over their work and its products, and new relation between work and life."
Women already have the right to work; what we need now is the right to libr.ation.
D.P. SMITH Wrekin CLP ura. ii