The Women's Liberation Movement

Women's Liberation is the newest stream in the radical upsurge in the U.S. today, and it is spreading like wildfire. In New York City alone there are over 100 Women's Liberation groups already Women's Liberation as a whole is still developing its theory, but its starring page 12 point is the subjection of women to the domination of man in the family, to the drudgery of housework, to lower pay for the same work as men, to loss of freedom through responsibility for children and lack of control over their own bodies. The simple democratic demands of the Movement — for free child-care nurseries, or the legalisation of abortion, for free access to contraception, for equal pay for equal work — all have revolutionary implications in the context of present American society. A huge demonstration against the New York State abortion laws is planned for March. Full-time organisers have been working on it since the beginning of January. In the U.S., thousands of women die every year from unhygienic or amateur abortions, and one in four American women have an abortion at some time in their lives.