IN IRÈLAND... association IN ITALY...
has in Women prisoners in Armagh received massive support.
on an INTE tended by 3,000 delegates.
to Michael Heseltine and is chopped receive government backing for any Bill he promessage Thatcher gave her Xmas message to the na- 1981.
Realm. She bethe plight of latch'It makes me and the woman is made rights because she • concentrate coming warmin anc family in- unemployment If only valell The concern for quality of women's lives is exposed by the huge cuts in social spen- Where the welfare state of women government that _Women do two-thirds of the world's working women should plug the gaps - that's her real Women will have their answer Thatcher in The HOSI important and immediate issue will be winning support for a massive campaign against Sainsbury Tories on aborton Fighting for woman's right to work in the Tories struggie. around will be permanent • camnational women's . LI due festival on 9 May against the Tory attacks will be vital to draw together broad • SCULIOTA lo tell une Tory they have The UN conference itself was interIN POŁAND Anna Walentynowicz was a prominent leader in the strike wave which included demands on women's rights such as three year maternity leave.
sunny one hundredth of the world's property had enough of its policies.
But we want to have our cake and eat it too. In order to fight the Tories we have to work out what we're fighting for as well. The record of the Labour government on cuts in public spending and other issues affecting women was hardly sufficient to pro vide a real alternative to the Women have to take up their demands in the debates in the Labour Party and the unions around • positive legislation discrimination. and These are the Dos uve Guestons around which the emerging women's movement will stand or fall this year and in the years to come
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rupted for ten minutes by one protester who kept on talk ing about their plight. And
scale in 1980 there was the United Nations conférence on women's rights, and PROTE
the womens movement collected nearly 100,000 signatures in support of a new bill against rape. They organised an international conference on rape at-