themselves within the ment. This may seem an obvious point after the rise of the Women Against the ri closures movement, and the record of the Greenham women, but it is not fully grasped by many in the labour The labour movement has nothing to fear organisation, black organisation - and everything to gain. When discriminated groups come forward and fight they strengthen not only themselves but enrich the the entire working class. The involvement or women in the miners' strike showed everyone, who had eyes to see, that the future of the pits effected the Clailly as a whole stuck with the miners all the way and are still taking a lead in the fight for an amnesty for sacked miners.
The Greenham camp has won more women to the peace movement than any smngie olci action CND has taken. The commitment of women to resist the missiles despite harassment and harsh sentencIng and to campaign nuclear disarmament is doubted by noULiC.
Marx Karl Marx was simply one of the first socialists to explain the hypocrisy the bourgeoisie's 'equality'. He pointed out that it is labour moveelitist one. said Christobel -selfself- Her struggle of The women imprisoned peace among view.
unilateral the labour Bishops, Some in WAC concern for with the the mass ot were concenand opposed the turn to for women in rural areas to decriminalisation of abor Party — post the Powell bill backcloth of a deeply predevilish intensity, been en- own, Ine rally las, government remains firmly Selected CIPE time. All this is evidence of attention of the NEC. WAC change will occur here. As in will be chosen as lose their ruthless male, is hardly likely to support a vote of no confidence i an ace so wilig lo relforce prejudice against women. It is time for the oi the declare that they have no confidence in an NEC committed to perpetrating inequality.
It is time for women to declare that programmes pleading for charity gifts future Government which will once again be excluded worth less than the pape they are printed on.
The experience of 1976 — when leading members of the Labour Cabinet connived with leading members of the TUC to ditch the introduction of Child Benefit - must be expected to recur again.
We know already that Enoch Powell's Bill - have been reselected will therefore form part of the next Labour Government, should one be elected.
What confidence can women have in their ability to alter the imbalance economic, social political power that pervades our society: a societ that permits a Bill whic penalises women for their infertility proceed through Parliament without consulting the majority the electorate — precisely that majority most likely to suffer its consequences.
It is time for women to take the maggar stalments of a long-due debt discontentedly' for women to discover the devil in us WAC's NEC Slate Margaret Beckett MP Joan Maynard MP Claire Short MP Frances Morrell Friary Ward Labour Party Public Meeting Gillick — A Woman's Right to Choose Monday 17 June 7.30 pm North Peckham Civic Centre Socialist Action and Revolution Women's Right to Choose Women's Right to work June 17 7.30 Unemployed Workers Centre Willesden High Road.
Speakers include Rose Cooper (SA NALGO) Ann Kane (Revolution Hackney South LPYS) Kay Sutcliffe Ayelsham women's support group, John Moynihan (NCU branch secretary).