Organising unemployed

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MANY TOWNS have unemployed workers' centres or are about to form them.

With women losing their jobs at three times the rate of men (but not showing up in the unemployment figures, as women do not bother to sign on when it does not benefit them), it is very important that women should be encouraged to contribute and attend meetings of the centres.

How can we ensure this! By doing estate surveys during the day, to ask women if they are 'at home' because they choose to be or because it's been chosen for them by Thatcher's policies (public spending cuts, lack of childcare facilities, etc.)

Important It is very important that the centre, and the unemployed, link up not only with the lahour movement and the employed, but also with the vast army of women both in and out of work.

It is also the task of women in Socialisi Organiser groups to involve themselves at a local level in these centres.

A national conference is being : organised in London to bring together the unemployed movement,, following the Leicester earlier this year.

Every effort should be made for unemployed women and claimants to attend, so that this important initiative is not male-dominated but represents the working class - male and female - as a whole.

I hope therefore that the organisers of this conference creche facilities. As a basic guide I would recommend The Long Creche by Wendy Richmond, available from NCCC, 17 Victoria Park Sq, London E2 for 70p including postage.

ANN McKINLEY is a paradigm of Six County politics in the last 60 years. Frozen communal antagonthere"

This is a very narrow approach to politics. What "normal politics"? It's such a shame that Irish politics are not the same as British politics.

I believe that both Bobby Sands' victory and Owen Carron's victory major step forward, not only for the irish working class but for the workers and the oppressed internationally. don't behave yourselt, you're out on your ear.

The only campaign which 1 know of to call for accountability of officials within the TGWU was started by the SWP some years back, but it didn't get very far. Apart from this effort, little has been done to set up any sort of coordination of the different sections within the union.

The time is now ripe for the membership to start a campaign for all officials to be elected, union policy making bodies to be elected, the delegation to the TUC

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