Socialist Organiser

The weekly of the fused Workers Socialist League, July 1981 to April 1984

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Socialist Organiser no. 126, 7 April 1983 · scan p. 5 · about 472 words

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Raise support for the day of strike action in your union, workplace, estate, shopping centre, school college, nursery, just anywhere you go. If your local council has a nuclear free zone policy, and many do, demand that the council gives over office space for orgnising for the 24th. Sheffield and Leicester City Councils have already done so. •Plan action for the day itself - we can do ANYTHING, occupy, encircle, decorate, die-in, blockade at military bases, banks, armaments factories and supporting industries, nuclear bunkers, Ministry of De•Leaflet everywhere, so there can be no excuse for not knowüng what's happening on May 24. If you don't have local leaflets, they can be obtained nationally from the London Greenham office. • Demand the support of men. Ask them to take supportive strike action as well, and to help organise creches so children can be looked after and the women are free to take the main action on the day. •Pressure to get unions to support May 24 must now be generated in local branches. Trades Councils can arrange for every delegate to take support for May 24 into their branches and arrange for speakers from Greenham Common to address meetings. •Help set up local organising meetings, including women's centres, women's groups, minority ethnic women's groups, trade union wo•Labour Party Women's sections can take up the call and show that there are Labour Party rank and file members who are determined to commit the Labour Party to campaign on conference resolutions.

Let's make May 24 the biggest, most successful action yet! The cops won't be able to cart away May 24's protest. What you can do: fence Offices. men's groups, anti-cuts campaigns, etc. already been planned, Brighton (Carmel or Islington, Haringey, Hackney, and in South London Boroughs.

On the trade union front, NALGO's Equal Opportunities Committee has supported the may 24 initiative and are calling on the Emergency Committee of the NEC to authorise strike action by women members. Motions of support have gone through a number of NALGO branches.

The more motions that go up to the NEC requesting support, the more likely NALGO will support strike action.

ACTT is recommending strike actions, and ACTI & NALGO will try to get a motion on the agenda of the April TUC.

The London Committee are planning to lobby the Labour Party NEC meeting in April.

Women from Greenham Common are planning to contact as many unions as possible to get their support and regular trade union organising meetings have now been set up.

So far the women's peace movement has been dominated by white middle class women. The Greenham Common women are stressing the importance of FROM:

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