Genderwatch
Genderwatch was a 'campaign' launched by the Revolutionary Communist Party in the 1990s. Those associated with it included Para Teare.[1] RCP activist Eve Kay-Kreizman delivered a talk for Genderwatch in 1996. the talk was reproduced as a commentary on the Living Marxism website. Kay-Kreizman ('Eve Kay') was listed as a 'journalist' as opposed to leading RCP activist and no connection was apparent in the listing between Genderwatch and the RCP [2]
Thus Para Teare was quoted criticising micro-credit schemes in Al-Ahram in 1999, following an article on the topic in LM[3]:
- However, behind the idea of "credit as human right for the poor" there lies a credit relationship that benefits the bank more than it does its borrowers, and this means that Grameen is more like conventional banks than meets the eye. For Grameen borrows at 12 per cent and charges Bangladeshi women 20 per cent for their loans, thus giving the bank a profit margin of eight per cent. And "these are the kind of figures that a banker in the city of London would be happy to settle for," commented social scientist Para Teare in the magazine Genderwatch.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Don't mention the 'A' word Pro-Choice Forum website, acc 9 Feb 2011
- ↑ 10-04-96: 'Palestine: The Deadly Peace' - Journalist Eve Kay was invited by Genderwatch to speak on the state of the Middle East peace process on 2 October at the School of Oriental and African Studies. This is the text of her talk.
- ↑ Para Teare, 'The Grameen Bank experience', Living Marxism, No. 90 - May 1996, p. 21.
- ↑ Faiza Rady Banking for the poor, Al-Ahram Weekly, 19 - 25 August 1999 Issue No. 443, accessed 19 March 2011
