AS GERRY ADAMS has become the oddson favourite to win the seat of West Belfast police and army harassment of the Sinn Fein campaign has been stepped up.
In scores of incidents SF candidates have been stopped from electioneering, have had blank shots fired at them and have been arrested and injured.
Having won equal time on television with other candidates о BBC analıy, tney nave been denied access to the broadcasting station time there has been a Loyalist effort to 'stop Sinn Fein!' by standing down candidates.
Despite this and the slander campaign of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, looks as though they will increase the 35 per cent of the nationalist vote won in the Assembly elections. Jives. On enquirv we were told that they had "technical problems'.
The BBC which covered the same event last year quite extensively Nationwide only three quick shots of difterent action (al in London) and a brief interview GR My dear father leading and much-loved member of the TORY PARTY in this city. J
WOMEN make up the biggest section of the population to be hard hit by Tory policies. Under Britain's first woman prime minister, women have lost jobs, pay, rights and opportunities.
It's not surprising, then, Tories among women is declining. But what alternatives do they have?
women during the election and beyond.
place society has changed dramatically in the last 50 years. They have gone out paid JODS vast numbers. It is now an exthat support for the HILARY DRIVER looks at the choices facing fered the lowest paid and most boring jobs usually with the worst conditions. People may argue that women have equal opportunities men 'higher professional' jobs such as lawyers, doctors.
proportion women in these 10bs bare v increased from 5 to 6 per cent in the fifty years up to 1971.
Amongst hallascis administrators and skilled manual workers ine proportion of women actually declined!
Thus Thatcher has not so much slartcu a massive onslaught against the rights rather consolidated built on a trend already in The manifesto, in line with its general 'do-gooder' tone says that the pressures of une recesson nave baee an increasing burden on women in particular'. But apart this mention buried halfway "through the document, you would' need pretty good eyesight to find any other mention of per cent of the population.
There are no proposals pay, education opporlumues, cqual pay, abor Socialist Action 3 June 1983