and to equality.
will advance the cause of women.
which confront women today.
ing to deal with every day:
given by a woman railworker • interviews with women from different women • a programme to beat the Tories real change in society can take place.
abortionist MPs such as White, which women need.
Anti-abortionists get smack in eye DESPITE the massive of money and energy poured into the campaign to stop women having abortions, more people than aver think that women should have the right to choose one.
recent Gallup poll shows conclusively that: • 81 per cent of men and 79 per cent of women support the right to choose in conmovement. On 5 June women will come from all over Britain to a giant festival to celebrate and discuss women's rights. A march through London to the festival will proclaim in action our right to jobs The following weekend in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Labour Party women meeting in annual conference will debate and decide many of the policies which in thase few pages we take up some of the issues We look at the draft manifesto for the next general election which is to be discussed by Labour's National Executive Committee. We also look in detail at some of the key questions which women are hav • the basic arguments for positive discrimination as • why abortion rights continue to be threatened and why the trade unions should campaign for them backgrounds on what the Falklands war means to Even if the best policies in the world were to be adopted by the Labour Party they would mean nothing if they didn't get backing in action by the mass of the labour movement. It is only through mass action on the streets and in the factories that a The sort of movement which repelled antiBenyon and Corrie is necessary to win the fight for positive action, for a woman's right to work and for all the other policies sultation with the woman's doctor. • 76 per cent of men and 69 percent of women think that abortion should be provided on the NHS And in a real blow to the Pope the poll also shows that seven out of ten Roman Catholics support woman's right to choose, despite the teachings of the Church.