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bes 4 Waa tne DNs bat! Ween VN es, Eh bicker + PTY ae nine pat clan ec “ G G6 cere . A NY 100-18676 Nos iTA "(a collection of the writings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin) which will be published by International Publishers in January, and which should receive wide circulation and study. . "Proper use of the Women's Page of 'The Worker't, under the leadership of Peggy \yfienntes, now widely read; the organization of friends and readers of 'The Worker' to make this page the vehicle of exchange of experiences in the peace and general woments movement, can make this page the avenue to increasing the circulation of the press among the masses of women, particularly among Negro and working-class women. "The Draft Resolution's failure to deal adequately with the woman question, overcome now with Comrade Hall's report, consists in the fact that it failed not only to deal adequately with women's role -- but with her oppression =. the crux of the question. It is true that the widespread and justifiable criticism by many of our women comrades of the Resolution's weakness was due to their failure to find a corresponding estimate of work among women on all Party levels, They saw therefore the struggle for woments equality solely as an inner Party matter, isolated, as too many of them are from the broad ferment of women for peace, Where women, despite obstacles, plunged ahead, and did not fall into the 'battle of the sexes! bourgeois-feminist moods, there recognition of wmen'ts full role and contri bution to the fight for peace was swiftest. This should point up a great fact: namely, that it is the movement of the women themselves for peace that has forced a new awareness upon our Party and labore progressive forces everywhere today. A real tribute for this approach goes to Comrade Foster who told us that women must fight for their own liberation, and to women Communist anti-fascist leaders in tho international women's movemente ° 73 6 CONFIDENTIAL