THE Bill on indecent displays, which sponsor the Rt Sainsbury claims will be welcomed by 'women's libbers', parliamentary debate on 1 May.
It deals with "indecent' covers of magazines, posters, and T-shirts outside and inside shops.
The average newsagent will be exempted from prosecution only if the offending material is kept in a backroom which has a warning notice.
The Bill proposes sentence, while which have much less severe penalties.
Many women regard pornography as exploitative, and feminists consider display of the tagonistic to the view of women as people and remale body workers.
But does Sainsbury's Bill offer a protection for women against exploitation or humiliation?
Laws which deal will have been used in a repressive way — not on the side of freedom of sexual expression or protection against abuse.
photo: JOANNE O'BRIEN Hon Timothy up displays on the Under the words -two-year prison repealing the antiquated laws in a commercial selling as all sexual expression John Tilley MP: 'There will be no front bench compromise while I am on it.' Obscene Publication 1959, for example, it is a crime to publish an article which is likely to 'deprave or corrupt'. But the law doesn't provide any definition of those • it is left to male judges and male police who are notoriously unsympathetic to gays, lesbian sexuality, and much else besides.
the recent pedophile case, defendant Tom O'Carrol was sentenced to two years for conspiracy to corrupt public morals.
He was never charged for any was harmful, but with breaking a 200 year-old law which had fallen into disrepute because it is arbitrary and undemocratic.
Many other so-called 'protective" laws on issues such as rape, social security, and employment perpetuate the dependent, Act of graphy By taking up like these oppress women.
police and the alter the status of women. action that Commercial bodies equality The liberation second- alc material.
FIVE hundred Filipinos are under threat : of expulsion from Britain pamphlet describes as the beginnmembers last week kicked off a campaign to mobilise Labour Party opposition to the Nationality Bill and the 1971 Immigration Act.
John Tilley, Labour MP for Lambeth Central and front bench opposition spokesperson Affairs, declared that 'there will be no front bench compromise while I am on it'.
He stated that our aim must be to kick out the Nationality Bill altogether and ensure that the next Labour Government repeals the 1971 Immigra tion Act and the 1981 Na. tionality Act (if passed).
For further information Charlotte Atkin 01-675 01-633 9377 or Bob Swart 30/4 Jurie Ansell 01-769 1160.
Action should be taken against porno- but by our own organisations. this question within the workers' movement as was done with the campaign over the page 3 pin-up in the Yorkshire Miner we can explain more clearly why pictures Banning only strengthens the powers of the courts; it won't substantially exploitation of women's will only be finished off by women organising to fight for their rights; the right to choose on abortion, the right to work, and to of womer will eventually mean an end to the distortion of human sexualicreates the market for pornographic Wing of the repatriation' The Migrants Action Grouc gives the evidence the Thatcher governments campaign against Filipino community, which has already resulted in some 50 people being thrown out of Britain.
The pamphlet shows how Office has for years been closing eyes to sharp practices by agencies which arrange for maindomestic labour to come Britain the Philippines.
Now that the government interested boosting TUC's race relations adFESTIVAL A TURF hostility to immigrants it is manufacturing flimsy pretexts to deport pe ople who have done nothing but work and sacrifice to benefit their children at home.
"On the Repatriation Action the Group 1JR plus postage. Tel. 01-388 0241.
THE DEATH OF CAMPBELL 'The Death of Cartoon Campbell by Battersea Wandsworth Trades Council.
Available from The Other Bookshop, 328 Upper St, London NI 2XP Price 50p.
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