When you have Benn doing interviews Spare Rib and Cosmopolitan been and making rash demands for 1,000 women peers in the new when women's sections in the Labour Party throw off their traditional role of making scones and bazaars to become fighting organisations; and when the Labour Party produces an official pamphlet something must be up! then you Icause feminists are more.
sceptical have questions about the validity of a campaign on the single issue of abortion because it doesn't the "feminist' programme (Spare Rib no 102). Others feel tha the IMG puts too much emphasis on the labour movement.
We are optimistic about building womens movement of women fighting their demands. The possibilities for raising feminist ideas in the movement favourable than it has been for a long time.
Though we place no illusions in Len Murray or Tony Benn when they raise issues -it's their that's important. By drawing • women into activity around specific immediate much broader feminist campaigns can then be taken up. Gloomy But 1980 has also had its gloomy side. That menace to women's rights, Thatcher, intends to women back into the family 1 January 1981 Page 8