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Socialist Organiser1981 1981-10-15Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 7 →
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WOMEN'S FIGHTBACK WOMEN A JOB plus postage from 41 Ellingtor IntAiy pe-pl 8 .PiLDM I "pergr a0uR "NEREN' xi[н. →' •MEN - YOUNG iN THE MARRiAGE The new Women's Fightback London N7 a-dIT'S A• MAkE RIGHT Poli NOT TO HAVE 10p St Women NUPE members ha selves willing to fight. But 1 inactivity by claiming that demand and against any forced sterilisation .. for ar NHS run for and by it: workers and users under their control.
*Local authority cuts School meals and other staf! have organised local cam paigns in many areas te defend services against the cuts. Their actions have beer left isolated by union leader and kept to sporadic. selec tive action. Fight for the ful necessary direct action to protect jobs and services.
*Child care cuts. In Oxford, London. Coventry. Leicester and Glasgow women have occupied threatened nurseries in the fight to prevent closures. Brale Street in I cicester nas a great victory in the fishi 've time and again shown inemNUPE officials justify their own the members are apathetic. i against such cuts.
Follow this lead and campaign for labour movement action to defend and extend state funded - childcare. Women's Fightback should join with the National Child Care Campaign to defend and extend provision.
*Rents and rates. Up and down the country working class women have joined and formed tenants associations to fight soaring rates and rents. Fight for rent and rate strikes to force councils to back down and to press home demands for the necessary repair work to be done.
Women in the community, in the unions, in the Labour Party, must organise for Labour councillors to defy government and refuse to cut or put up rates and rents. Women's Fightback will organise full support for such councils in direct confrontation with the government.
*Unionisation. More and more women are Joining unions. many like the Chix women fighting tough battles • for union recognition. All these struggles must be supported. Many women teel excluded from union decisions. Demand meetings he held in working hours or that adequate childcare/ creche arrangements be laid on for erery meeting. Fight for positive discriminațion
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From left: Anna Walentynowicz and Andrzej Gwiazda; delegates at congress; rs making a 'parking space' for official TV who were banned from congress for refusing workers time on TV.