WPUK: A Woman’s Place is NOT in prison

[Cwenthryth]

I’m heading town to this meeting in central London tonight. There’s a hashtag #WPUKPrisons to follow for live tweeting and as ever everything will be uploaded as videos later.

Am very interested to learn more about this topic, as it is an area I know little about beyond headlines. Especially interested to see where any commonality may be with those self-proclaimed “intersectional feminists” who say we all have to be “anti-carceral”.

If the SWP no longer agree with Engels’ theory of the roots of women’s oppression, as put forward in “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State” – a standpoint you cannot agree with if you believe that anyone with any kind of body can be a woman – then they have a duty to explain a) whether they still believe women to be oppressed, and if so, b) what their new analysis of that oppression is.

FlyingOink excellent point on the SWPs track record of internal investigations into serious allegations of abuses against women, including rape.