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But should want to do these jobs?
Because nave nad loos with rouen pay which are badly Women want well maid 1005 they want jobs which are well And they want jobs that more interesting. Women only carn about sixty the types of jobs which we do But isn't discrimination of the type you describe illegal For example, employers aren't allowed to discriminate at the point of hiring for a job?
Well if you can prove it, yes. But usually discrimination. prove that someone hasn't of fered you a job because you're a woman. The Sex Discrimination Act respect. What it does is to allow positive expense of men?
women for too long organised.
available to are per cent of This is because of legislation? surely NO WORK.
ACES ridder 10U cannot is negative in that discrimination But isn't there workforce. danger of favouritism at the JObs I think that's the kind of argument that the management uses SCIE CREHECHE you get from the men you work All jobs ought to both men and women and it's only because of unemployment that people see women as taking men's jobs divisive It's also because of a rather old fashioned idea that men are still highlights the breadwinners. But there sa high percentage of women who other are single parents and bringing work The What positive ac tion does is to show they don' have this. They're only allowed when the economy te quires it such as during war time. That situation has to be done away with and there must be compensatory measures to make women equal.
Some people think - even people in the Labour Party that positive action because women's demands at the expense of working people.
Others say it's irrelevant to A woman's right to positive action 60p plus p@p. Orders ove each, Cheques to Booksho Order now from The Othe BOOKSHO! London N1 2XP Upper St take this up and commit the next Lapour government to t necessary amendments. In fac something that I think would make people vote Labour if they showed the were really committed to this process and not half hearted about it.
We need action as well to defend women's jobs and at tack mractement s discriminatory practices think that unions must insist or TOSHEROI WaCK women work and what percen tage of women work and wha they earn 1 think we could start negotiating around the question of goals and targets and monitor the progress employers like BR which cal employers but which de employers nothing to put this into prac tice Many people don't know if their employer is an cqual opportunity employer Such a process will uncover discriminatory practices in all areas including redundancie and has to be part of the overal! fight against unemployment.
i that we will fight with IS until we are losing, with tactical nuclesr dominance is not just about confronting the Soviet Union. It is about providing the strategic umbrella and back up to ail the US military operstions against revolutions.
-In fact, the times when the US hat COLLIC CHOSPSE EO weapons have nor involved an eyeball cycball confrontation with the Soviet Union in Europe called Central Front frontations with revolutions in the 'third world', During the Korean war in 1950 when US forces were in fall retreatio the Pusan perinsula and when a year later Chinese trOODs prevent the defeat of Koreans, WHCHILE USE weapons was closely debated in US ruling circies.
In 1962, President Kennedy went to the brink of world war in a conflict mister in Cuna And when in 1954, French troops verge of their devastating defeat at the hands of communist Vietnam at the battle of Dien Bien Pho, the US hatched a plan to rescue them by using tactical weapons against the troops besieging them.
Again, President Nixon threatened the use of nuclear weapons against the Vietnamese in the early during the siege and blockade of the North Vietnamese ports.
by thousands nas Many positions.
However always missiles in Cuba -hanless the so- stopped hut con- tion of Soviet superiority.
intervened to the North nuclear tional forces on the trooDs in Already it has •nuciear exercise Sibility OI US bombers flew 1970s, flew home again.
of miles of hostile borders from Turkey to Japan while great strategic security. of the countries which surthe Soviet Union are hostile to like Pakistan and Turkey - and have US Nuclear bases and forward The US has, refused to accept case is the Cuban missile crisis. The decision to site Soviet medium-range which in the carly 1960) context of no Soviet possession of ICBMs would have meant a big change in the strategic balance — was mer by the US with the threat to go to WETS withdrawn. Cuba was blockaded by the US navy and Soviet ships were and searched. The preven"forward basing" dependent on overwhelming nuclear 4) US nuclear superiority anables it to use its conventional forces much more freely. For the US to respond to developing revolutions in the colonial and semi-colonial coun tries it needs new and flexible conven- but these have to be backed up by a nuclear umbrella. The conventional force build-up is taking the form of the construction of the Rapıd Deployment Force which aims to put 100,000 men in the field within engaged in a Egyptian troops, Just to demonstrate the nexconventional Colorado, dropped their bombs in the Egyptian desert, turned round and The Indian Ocean island of Diego But in addition the US maintains permanent military 'advisors" and aid to reactionary dictatorships world wide Since the second world war, the US has used its conventional forces directly against the colonial revolution on many occasions. The most notable CATC Korean war 1950-3; the CIA-officered overthrow of the left-wing Arbenz regime in Guatemala in 1954; the sending of marines to the Lebanon in 1958 to put down a left wing revolt; the crushing of the left wing Bosch regime in the Dominican Republic by marines in 1965; and of course the use of half a million troops to try to crush the Vietnamese revolution between 1965 and 1971.
This world wide use of US military muscle requires decisive nuclear superiority because fighting revolutionary, nationalist or other movements detrimental to its interests the US also threatens the strategic interests of the USSR which possesses nuclear weapons.
Thus US imperialism is of necessiSocialist Challenge supporters march for a nuclear-free Europe on 6 June, we shall also be marching against the system which gives rise to nuclear nuclear 'exterminism' means defeat the system of permanent oppression and barbarity which Reagan CUE COCHELS Thanks to Mike Davis who let us use of the material 'Nuclear and minism and Cold War (NLB forthcom ing) in drawing up this article.
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