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My former revolutionary socialist organisation, the Militant Tendency (which I joined during the 18-million strong mass non-payment campaign which it led that subsequently defeated the poll tax and brought down Margaret Thatcher), later to become Militant Labour and now the Socialist Party, formed the Free Sara Thornton Campaign (leading to the release of a woman who was convicted of murder and jailed for life for killing her violent partner), later to become the Campaign Against Domestic Violence (CADV), which also campaigned for more women’s refuges.
However, the leadership of Women’s Aid, which runs many refuges and had cooperated with the Socialist Party in CADV, later launched a vicious attack on that party (undoubtedly because they are right-wing feminists who see men rather than capitalism as the problem).
I had gone to a large meeting in Manchester Town Hall, but Women’s Aid subsequently insisted on women’s only meetings, which was a problem with CADV because some men suffer domestic violence too, and it is important for women who have experienced it to encounter good men in order to recover fully from their ordeal. In contrast to the attitude of the leaders of Women’s Aid, we saw capitalist society, and the “nuclear family” which capitalist politicians promote so that the husband can control the wife and together control the children so that big business remains in control (although advances in women’s rights in this country, which I fully support, are undermining that form of control to a large extent nowadays).
