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Socialist Organiser no. 81, 22 April 1982 · scan p. 6 · about 596 words

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conference against Organised by Cove THE 20,000 leaflets produced by the Action Committee for a Woman's Right to Work have nearly all been distributed. More are being printed, though, as well as posters. Most were taken at the LPYS conference and the NUT conference over Easter.

Many YS branches from all over the country took bundles. We now have to make sure we use them to full advantage and not leave them lying in a corner).

As Angela Britain pointed out at the Women's Right to Work Meeting at YS Conference, "We have to get the women who don't usually come on marches. Women who may have children, whom local organising committees must arrange IRELAND DEMONSTRATE MAY 8: British out of Ireland, self determination for the • Irish people. 1pm. Speakers' Corner, London. Called by Labour Committee on Ireland, Indian Workers' Association, Troops Out Movement, and Veterans Against the War. Send labour movement sponsorships to Robert Jones, Box 353, London NW5 4NH.

MANCHESTER Labour Committee on ireland meeting: Thursday May 13, 7.30 at the Britons Protection pub, Gt Bridgewater St, Manchester 1. Speaker: Pat Byrne, who was secretary of the Irish Republican Congress in the 1930s. LP members only.

PALESTINE Bradford Labour Movement Campaign for Palestinian Solidarity - day school on 'Zionism, ideology of expansion' • Saturday April creches for. We have to make sure that the local labour movement is fully behind the march and makes the committment to help with transport.

"If you haven't got a mobilising committee in your area - set one up! Call a meeting of local women's groups, community groups, Labour Party branches and trade unions, make sure that the leaflets are circulated as widely as possible. Publicise the march in your local press, at work, at college, on your estate, among your friends.

«We want a march and festival on June 5 that shows that women aren't going to sit back and let our jobs be snatched from us"

Angela then went on 24, 10.30am to 5pm, at Queen's Hall, Bradford. Credentials £1 waged, 50p unwaged, trom / westrield Cres, Undercliffe Old Road, Bradford 2. Speakers include Moshe Machover, Andrew Hornung, Elfi Pallas, and Inhn Malenn MARXISM London Workers' Socialist League classes on basic Marxism. Next one: Trotskyism and the mass movement. Friday April 30, 7.30pm. For details of venue write to PO Box 135, London N1 ODD.

OXFORD UNEMPLOYED WORKERS AND CLAIMANTS UNION women's group, metts erer y mento avans Thrircday, 10.30am to 12.30 at East Oxford Community Centre, block B. Tel: 723750. 'SOLIDARITY with Iranian workers': rally, Saturday April 24, 2pm at Friends House, Euston Rd, London. Speakers include Richard Balfe MEP, Stan i Newens MP, and Bill Deal (FBU). Organised by the Moslem Students Society (supporters of the PMOI). the NUT conference in Scarborough to address a meeting of 200, distributing more leaflets.

Bundles of literature were widely distributed at the National Organisation of Labour Students conference in York over Easter too.

Requests for leaflets and posters are pouring in - so make sure you place your order now!

Write to the Action Committee for a Woman's Right to Work, 181 Richmond Road, London E8 or to the Women's Fightback national office, 41 Ellington Street., London N7.

If you're in London come to the Action Committee meetings - every Monday evening at 7.15 at County Hall, Waterloo.

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