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planned way. Naturally, this requires close political understanding and organisational coordination between the womens organisation and the TU centre. .
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To develop a broad-based women's movement it is absolutely necessary to expand ourreach among college students and teachers, media women and intellectuals in general. For anorganisation like ours, with its main social base among the rural poor, this is a real challenge. The womens magazines published by us in Hindi, English, Assamese and Bengali should be put tobetter use for this purpose..
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In addition to these classes and strata, another section merits our special attention: womenpeople's representatives in panchayats. Socially and politically active at the grassroots, they canbe a very good medium for reaching out to the masses and gathering feedback from the masses.The women's organisation can hold village level mass meetings and invite all women representatives and candidates to discuss problems routinely faced by women relating topotable water and health services, for example as well as political topics like, say, expected andactual roles of women representatives following 50% reservation, panchayats. Post elections, itshould encourage and assist women representatives to fight against hidebound traditions as wellas caste and gender discrimination, act independently of male 'guardians' and forcefully raisewomen's issues among general issues of common people. .
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Party Education and Party Building among Women.
50. The party has, for long, been concerned about substantially increasing the number ofwomen party members and promoting their ideological-political development to ensure an increase in the number of women cadres and leaders. We must continue to address this challengewith a variety of organisational and educational measures. We need to accord greater emphasis as a communist party (not the womens organisation alone) to anti-patriarchal struggles. We mustalso recognise that patriarchal common sense tends to have a stubborn grip on society and therefore on our rank and file and even our political leadership. Therefore, our political practiceneeds to be accompanied by relentless and ruthless introspection and conscious efforts to analyseand challenge patriarchal ideology and practices. Only then can we breathe life into progressiveand democratic anti-patriarchal ideas and make them a material force that energises our entiremovement as well as society at large. .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2012 ID-32373
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planned way. Naturally, this requires close political understanding and organisational coordination between the womens organisation and the TU centre. .
48. .
To develop a broad-based women's movement it is absolutely necessary to expand ourreach among college students and teachers, media women and intellectuals in general. For anorganisation like ours, with its main social base among the rural poor, this is a real challenge. The womens magazines published by us in Hindi, English, Assamese and Bengali should be put tobetter use for this purpose..
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49. .
In addition to these classes and strata, another section merits our special attention: womenpeople's representatives in panchayats. Socially and politically active at the grassroots, they canbe a very good medium for reaching out to the masses and gathering feedback from the masses.The women's organisation can hold village level mass meetings and invite all women representatives and candidates to discuss problems routinely faced by women relating topotable water and health services, for example as well as political topics like, say, expected andactual roles of women representatives following 50% reservation, panchayats. Post elections, itshould encourage and assist women representatives to fight against hidebound traditions as wellas caste and gender discrimination, act independently of male 'guardians' and forcefully raisewomen's issues among general issues of common people. .
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Party Education and Party Building among Women.
50. The party has, for long, been concerned about substantially increasing the number ofwomen party members and promoting their ideological-political development to ensure an increase in the number of women cadres and leaders. We must continue to address this challengewith a variety of organisational and educational measures. We need to accord greater emphasis as a communist party (not the womens organisation alone) to anti-patriarchal struggles. We mustalso recognise that patriarchal common sense tends to have a stubborn grip on society and therefore on our rank and file and even our political leadership. Therefore, our political practiceneeds to be accompanied by relentless and ruthless introspection and conscious efforts to analyseand challenge patriarchal ideology and practices. Only then can we breathe life into progressiveand democratic anti-patriarchal ideas and make them a material force that energises our entiremovement as well as society at large. .
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