Discrimination is built into the benefits system
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through unemployment; but some are already fighting back unemployment; but some already fighting on their husbands. Women decided they don't want to commitment - a pretty who live with men, or even be in a 'dependent' rela- degrading view of human have frequent visits from tionship. be the same as married or even shared activities iliating interrogations or Hall, Waterloo, from 10.30 and YEl 11, and go to Battersea Park for the national Women's Festival and Rally organised by the Labour Party. There'll be women's bands, stalls, theatre, open-air discussion forums, a rally with national and international speakers, plus food, kids' entertainment & creche, and lots more. Gerry Byrne for the right independent for all THERE are now four million people claiming supplementary benefit -the highest ever figure.
This has been pushed up by the removal of earnings' related supplement from unemployment and sickness benefit and the fact that over one million of the unemployed have been out of work for over one year, and are forced onto supplementary, rather than unemployment benefit.
This catastrophie total point to the need, while not letting up on the fight for save jobs and create new jobs, to take up as an immediate priority winning a living income for everybody, regardless of this system's willingness or ability to provide jobs.
Central to this fight has to be the right to an independent income for all. Sexist discrimination is built into the benefits systents not just the blatTUSL ant examples like noncontributory invalidity benefit - where a woman has to prove not only that she's incapable of work, but also of 'normal household duties' , whereas a man just has to prove he's incapable of work. It runs far deeper than those outrageous 'anomalies' The whole system is structured round the belief that women are not people in their own right. Married women are assumed, and therefore in practice are -MARCH WITH US TO WOMEN'S FESTIVAL AND RALLY argues to an income Women suffer most heavily them, are considered to THE Come and join us on June 5th.
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