for all low nao workers giving the lie to the idea that positive action women unfairly discriminates against men.
The fight for positive action challenges the way which the education system and the bosses condemn women to being se cond class citizens.
organised movement for women's rights, particularly the right to work and the right to choose, is a threat to all those who benefit from pitting section workers against another.
to those reformist leaders WIlO within the bosses® work system to iron out inequalities by paltry measures and empty promises.
Fighting for women's rights is part of the fight to leadership within the labour move • ment capable of uniting all the workers' struggles into • a successtul challenge to • the whole capitalist setup.
fRole We are confident that such a leadership can be built and that working • class women will play a major role in its creation.
Ten years ago it would Crafts, British Steel.
learned in the fight against the Tories need a clear-sighted leadership.
powerful unions.
step in ensuring that right time. have seemed impossible for the TUC to call a national demonstration on abortion, SHOWS how rapidly consciousness is changing worth rights. And today the Lee Jeans women are in the forefront of the fight agalnsl the Tories unemployment policies.
Fighting for positive I welcome this conference of Socialist Challenge as an opportunity to discuss out the lessons we've The steel strike experience showed that if we are to use our massive power effectively, then we The Sirs and Chapples of this world have to be got rid of. This can only be done by fighting from inside the big It is excellent that Socialist Challenge supdustry. Lee conce that this conference will be one their energies when the next big battles break out Socialist Challenge is not only operating from the outside but also from the inside. You don't only need correct ideas, but the people ready to carry them out who are in the right place at the I will be speaking in the session on the fight against redundancies. I think we have to look not only at the big successes like the miners but also some of the failures like in steel. We have suffered some big knocks, but we are not completely out.
If the lessons can be drawn by a sufficiently large minority to fight for policies which are in our interests, then everything we have had inflicted on us won't be in vain. Socialist Challenge has had the merit of raising some of these policies and this is why I'll be there to debate them out further.
action for women's rights central to challenging t.ne whole of the Tories against the working class. Building a wower . movement based in the in dustrial unions is the besi guarantee that such movement will be powerful weapon in the struggle women's Jihçration and socialism.
National Abortion Campaign NAC. The main debate at the conference is whether or not NAC takes up contraception as a