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London N7. Ateneed COMING UP Women's Fightback AGM. October 23 County Hall, London. Open to all women, but only members and delegates from affiliated groups can vote. For conference details send s.a.e. to 41 Ellington St, N7; to join WF too send £3 (or £5 to include Fightback - 16 pages. and articles on the NHS dispute, the jobs campaign, WF harrong Bach agental ite Tores summer space, sexism in education Judith Williams, Labour women's conference, etu. 20p from WF, 41 Ellington St.

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Toot dearalle * Man regular mailings and the paper). Women's Fightback badge, in yellow and red 20p (plus 15p post) for one, 15p each post free for orders of ten or more, from 41 Ellington Street, London N7.

Between 1968 and 1977 the number of divorces per year increased from 46.000 to 129,000 (figures for England and Wales only).

An increased proportion of the increased total were divorces after less than five years of marriage - 18% as compared to 13%. In 1976, when the Equal Pay Act was fresh and new, 1700 women went to tribunals for equal pay. Last year only 54 did.

The tribunals found innumerable loopholes, and women's earnings (per hour) are still only 75% of men's.

After a jump around the time of the Equal Pay Act, this percentage is now decreasing.

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...ana In FOR THE last few months the National Front have had a stall on Brick Lane Market. They got it originally by booking it in the name of an individual member. But since it became clear what the stall is selling, there have been calls for the local Labour Council to withdraw the stall's licence.

Despite the efforts of some left-wing councillors, the council has avoided taking action.

The stall is important for the NF not only because it gives them a permanent pitch for selling their literature. It also boosts their confidence and serves as an organising base. There has been an increase in reports of racialist attacks SUPPORTERS of the Islington Anti-Nazi League have for years been turning up on Sunday mornings at Chapel Market in Islington to leaflet against racism and fascism. This has been despite determined and often violent opposition from the National Front and other Nazis.

Numerous mass attacks have taken place against the ANL, including the use of bottles, bricks, knives and other weapons. One Chapel Market NF supporter is now in borstal for stabbing and nearly killing an ANL supporter. Another, an ex-UVF member, was sent down for three years.

On Sunday August 1 a group of male and female Islington ANL were leafleting at Chapel Market. Beside them was a mob of NFers.

One of these was NF National Directorate member lan Anderson, who in 1975 organised an attack by a busload of thugs on an anti fascist demonstration.

They. taunted the ANL with racist and other abuse.

Then, suddenly, they launched a vicious and unprovoked mass attack. Some of the ANL scrambled to safety, others defended themselves.

Shortly afterwards, a vanload of ANL supporters was stopped on Upper Street by a police car with lan Anderson in the back. He pointed three of them out to the police, who subsequently charged them with assault and actual bodily harm.

People who have shown up at Chapel Market every Sunday morning for years, in the teeth of intimidation and violence, can demand the financial and political support of all anti-racists Legal aid was refused on August 4, though the Chapel Market Three have elected trial by jury. They must be defended.

Contact: Chapel Market Three Defence Campaign, c/o Islington ANL, 265 Seven Sisters Road, London ofu!

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