THE Irish dominated socialist last weekend.
and Maire the MenDers to the conference.
wielding a arrests, their go to not the H Block ine 400-strong women were being held PTA' By Sarah Roelofs and Valerie Coultas question the third ing on feminist conference held in London Two women, Anne Boyle O'Hare, both A CLOU une broken Women Against Imperialism, north UNCCI Prevention of Terrorism Act men on Friday night on their way strike.
OCATPIIATO AANANTOTITA TITT sion was held to discuss the , and it was decided to Downing St to protest. result was march Pauline Rochester Rd police station, despite where, it was suspected, the kidney refused The protestors. chanted: "Free our sisters — smash the Half the women at the for demand for socialist feminist con They were hunger strike held the minute they arrived at Heathrow. member Arrests Te eased arter being neld tor 7t Anne was I at Rochester SUNEAS Challenge Other victims of the harass ticipants in a Sinn Pain included demonstration held on marching and were told by a chief in.
in Kilburn you won't be demonsarrests for criminal damage were a result of the spraying of Lon including slogan. 'Smash H conference attended a meetwoes non talked about women's lives in the 32 Ginny, from the Relative the rash of protests that had out throughout the following the nouncement that the H Block were going hunger Abuse She also drew attention to the plight of Armagh prisoner McLaughlin, who, suffering trON disease has been medical a calmicill and now weighs 4.5 stone.
Ar Irish woman from the floor made a passionate plea women regardless of their political views', to unite around the the release of Pauline. It was suggested that if Pauline died the women in Armach might also decide to Mulholland. of the Provisional Anne Speed, People's Democracy and the Contraception Action Proi lill. spoke more general effects of Irish partition bolstering Lammond hierarchy in the south and encouraging repression Catholic minority in the north.
She said that the best thing British women could do was 'to get your army off ou streets.
The debate has only just begun earnest the women's movement was most heartening for the Irish women who came was, Anne Speed said, that women seemed prepared to do something the demonstation and picket the night before had shown. Socialist Challenge 30 October 1900 Page 7'
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Feminists outside Downing St. Abortion