OVER 200 women attended the second Women's Fightback weekend.
The Campaign, initially sponsored by Socialist Organiser, decided that it vital that women unorganised' were made effects of the Tory Employment Bill on their rights as workers, mothers and trade unionists.
Women's Fightback will be building a big lobby at the TUC this year making it clear that women want Len Murray to act now to defend a woman's right to work.
There was quite a long debate in the morning on what policies the campaign adopt. The planning committee's draft policy, which was eventually adopted, mainly on the attacks on women at present and the need to fight in the women's movement and the labour movement for action to be taken against Tory policies.
An amendment put by the IMG stressing the need to give equal emphasis to work in the Workshops were held on the Labour Party Young Socialists, Housewives in Dialogue, and producing regular Fightback campaign.
The workshop on the newspaper attracted the largest number of women and a lot of Charter, conference Fightback, campaign.
was 'organised and aware concentrated decade.
trade unions and the Labour Party was carried. d elect representatives when about their newspaper for the WE LUN Women in Action, a paper that came out of the last conference of the Working Campaign fusing the newsletter of the Everyone agreed that a popular, regularly produced newspaper aimed at women in the labour movement would be vital to building support for the fightback against the Tories.
The conference voted at the end of the day to bring the two journals together. agreed that there would be a rally in London to launch the paper on a regular basis.
Decisions were also taken that stressed that the campaign should be as open and as broad based as possible. The steering committee and the editorial board have the power to co-opt women who want to get involved, and other campaigus anu or anisanons can arrate The campaign obviously has a lot of poten. tial to reach out to the thousands of women who have become active within the trade union movement and the Labour Party over the last The decision to elect the steering committee in a hurried manner at the end marred the conference, however. Women had to decide to pollics or tnerr women's and labour movements.
The result was a steering committee that 'open' as it could Workers Action was the only tendency at the conference which was represented on the slate.
she argues.
Kate, Women's the National Union Fightback ment.
Female
It was membership those affiliated to the TUC Wing those domestic concerns.
discussed in the trade unions, little was known Kate explains, record in the on or caused embarrassment.' have been.
trade unionists change attitudes. women have forced the trade union movement to take up our •When abortion was first 'it was frowned The impact of the women's movement and the consistent work of female and a few male helped, to 2 July, 7.30pm, Manning Hall Theatre, University of London Union, Malet St, WC1. (Tickets £1.50 in ad vance, 21.75 on the door)
Secialist Challenge -26 June 1980
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