We are members of an open planning group set up to pull together a long overdue discussion on issues in the women's movement. We are unified around a commitment towards taking the women's movement forward in the struggle against capitalism-imperialism and the particular oppression of women Not surprisingly, the differences which emerged in the planning group reflected the divisions in the over-all movement The resistance to-struggle which we came up against was disturbing. The struggle itself was healthy. As dodging conflict seems to be a trend in the women's movement and in the movement in general we felt it was our responsibility to explore and discuss our analysis of this pattern.