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FIGHTBACK WE WANT Jobs march Women'Sfor jobs voted to disband the student women's group as it was closed to men. Three executive officers of the union resigned as a result. Only one of them was a woman.
There were 300 at the meeting, though the union has 5,800 members. The majority of the people voting against the women's group were men from the university's two all-male hostels.
Last September the women's group picketed one of these hostels when the men had invited a stripper to perform for them. Subsequently the women's group was not overly grateful when men ABORTION RIGHTS CAMPAIGN AGM Sat. 26 June at Lambeth Town Hall, SW2. 11am - 4pm.
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On June 5, the banners and the placards, the music and the songs flourished for a few brief hours along the Embankment to Battersea Park. If we start building now - building on the strength and will that is already there in women: groups across the country. then this time next year those few hours can be turned into weeks, and the thousands of women into tens of thousands. They're there, already. Just invisible, that's all.
THE Women's Right to Work Action Committee. who called the June 5 march, will be holding a ''Where to now?" meeting at 11.30am on Saturday 3 July at UMIST Union. Sackville Street, Manchester. It's open to all women who are interested in building on what we achieved on June 5 and the idea of a Women's March for Jobs will be a prominent theme. No need to register in advance, just turn up and ask for the Action Committee meeting.
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Socialist Organiser no.90 June 24 1982 Page 14