[Mirises The task in organising the conference is…]
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Mirises The task in organising the conference is to find a balance between the tasks we fact and the problems we have to tackle which all knit together into a system of oppression. For example, unemployment, the Tory government's attacks on our services and our trade union rights, fighting the 4% limit, learning how to conduct a particular struggle effectively: these 'big" questions must be meshed in with detailed discussion on how to tackle put-downs in union branch meetings, how to start a women's committee, how to tackle the ideology of the family wage, learning the argument for positiv discrimination and the ways to achieve it.
We can't afford to be one-sided: we can't lose the 'big' questions in an interesting but timeless examination of the daily problems of women trade unionists - nor should we gather together women to talk about the evil Tories and the appalling union leaderships and forget that we are women, with different problems and different answers, and with a movement of our own to build as trade unionists.
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The conference is based on an understanding that no part of the way we are treated is trivial, unimportant or non-political, and that no part of our : fight should be dismissed as a 'diversion' from something more important -because in every fight that we take on and win, we become stronger for another fight; whereas if one part of our oppression is dismissed as irrelevant, we will go on fighting with one hand tied behind us, and we will simply go on as we have done up to now.
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