in a situation of economic instability, boycott by the EEC countries, and the return of male workers from the colonies.
The subjective experience of being a women revolutionary tourist in Portugal was a bit like taking an extended walk along a building site wearing lots of make-up and a mini skirt. I felt 1 had to struggle all the time to be treated as a person and not as a naive woman/sex object.
At the Armed Forces Movement meeting for foreigners, after a long series of questions about the general. situation. a German woman asked the captain from the 5th Division WhaTe AH annice was to 1001 women getting illegal abortions safe abortions. cornered but couldn't take the point - of course the Sth Division supports the legalisation of aborabortion in detail (roughly transwith a capital "P'). At the end of again he patted me on the cheek and told me not to worry.
thinking that the revolution really might change things for women and that the MLM could play an important part in this? Basically economic change that is taking tion their roles.
and 40 men. the fields and the women worked ner for 50+ people.
TAKE TURNS Big arguments developed because the men got very angry if their dinner was not read as soon as they got back from the fields, and said that the women didn't really work nard al du. tre wo men were not at all intimidated We tried to explain that 150,000 were in effect demanding legal and The captain was tion, but we are not here to discuss lated to mean abortion isn't politics portant part. the meeting the captain came up to me and as 1 tried to make our point Why, then, did I and other women who visited Portugal come away because in the process of social and place in Portugal, women are playing a large part in the daily struggle and through this are having to quesIn the co-operative farm we worked on there were about 10 women The men worked in in the house and the fields. At midday the women cooked a huge dinis on preventive medicine. Doctors must talk to patients as people and explain what they are doing so that a visit to the clinic is also a learning situation, and women can teach other women what they have learned about nutrition, hygiene, contraception etc.
In housing struggles, in the neigh bourhood commissions, and in the occupation of houses to be used as creches, women have played an imCRISIS POINT There have been many strikes and factory occupations involving women, particularly in the textile industry. Often the women do piecework and the foreman is a man:
This can mean that a woman's wages will depend on how she gets on with the foreman.
The situation in the textile factories now looks as though it is about to reach a crisis point. The EEC, pushed mainly by Wilson, has put a tariff of 10p per item on all SUBSCRibE Spare Rib by post every month for 1 year (12 issues)
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