A festival of past and future struggles

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International Women's Day Women: Portraits from Life RALLY FOR WOMEN'S DAY Speakers include: Mary Vinns, United Mineworkers Entrance; Cl and 50p unwaged.

M the Camden Centre, off Fuston Road Doors Open 5.30pm Bookstalls and displays, light refreshments available Birmingham International Women's Day Public meeting Tuesday 9 March at 7.30 The Fighting Cocks pub Mosely, Birmingham Speakers Mary Zinns, United Mineworkers of America Mary Crawford, on women in Ireland Letitia on women in Latin America Mags Lamplough, Revolution Youth Banner Theatre Group with their play Women at Work £7.50 waged, E1 unwaged South West Lancashire pit head woman 1886, from Victorian Working Rights salutes International States. SOCIALIST CHALLENGE Women's Day 1982. As our contribution to the struggle of women for justice and liberation we have organised a series of public meetings across Britain for Mary Zinns, a woman miner in the United It is women like Mary who, with our support, are breaking out of the ghettos, charting new paths and destroying the myth of female inferiority. In so doing they lead the way for all of uS International Women's Day is born from struggle:

significance. born among the poorest, most deprived and suffering of women in a 1908 strike about 129 women who were burned to death in a fire in 1983 New York's garment district.

Since that day 8 March has been used by women to unite on those issues we consider important - war, food suffrage, abortion, childcare, equal pay. prostitution Its history has been marked by mass demonstrations, rallies, meetings and heroic 1983. struggles. Unfortunately, it has also been marked by the efforts of official labour and communist parties to trivialise and undermine its In Britain this year there will be no major event to celebrate women's day, but we can not permit this ir This will be the 75th an niversary of international Women's Day.

We should organise now to call on the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, for the TUC and the Labour Party to call a mass international demonstration on 8 March Women should take the lead in the fight for • A womans right to work • A womans right to choose