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-BANDS- FILMS -PLAYS• FOR MORE BERMATI CAT IT LANS COMP 25-54 1,100 55+ Women Men 1,675 Actively seeking work 1,900 'WE'RE not rag trade girls. We are women workers fighting for our jobs with the only weapons available to us. Women's jobs are as important as any other, and we aim to prove that women can fight for them.
Jeans are showing the whole labour movement how to fight against unemployment.
that they have as much right to a job as men. 'Some people didn' think we'd occupy, one woman points out, right to work, 1oo.
raise their demands in the struggle for the right to work. Women's cent since 1975, compared to 61 per cent for men.
It is estimated that real unemployment runs at 3.5m and that most of the hidden million are women.
out of the labour force at the whim of the capitalist system unionists and politicians must be One way we can do this is by The women in occupation at Lee As women they are demanding 'but women have the for this It is becoming vital that women unemployment has increased 207 per themselves.
Women have to show that we are sick and tired of being shoved in and - trade shown that we have a right to a job. organising maximum participatior. from women on the People's Mür. for Jobs from Liverpool to Lond: in May. Our demands have to he raised on every step of the march.
The south east region of the TUC held a meeting last week ir discuss this. It is producing sticke posters and leaflets taking up women's demands; one leg of the march from Letchworth to Lutor bank holiday Monday, 25 Mar. i. focus on a woman's right to wore The other regions organising : march - north west and west midlands - should do the same Trade unionists locally have 10 i.
In the north west, the march should be led by the women fron Royal Pride. on strike for over !: weeks for union recognition. The have shown how to fight to deter But, in addition to women's d on the march, our demands haie: be raised all along the route - Le: Jeans women should be asked to speak at meetings on the way. The issues of women's rights have 10 5= raised continuously.
SERTUC claim they need more women on the march and we shou argue for quotas of women black: and youth from all trade unior Socialist Challenge 16 April 1981
THE victory In its 11 April issue it said: The Sands campaign was generally organised by the former McAliskey, who must take Mrs a large amount. of credit for maximising the VUlC Bernadette people that demonstrated political and their strength It's ironic that through this election an area such as Fermanagh in particular should take the lead in the second hunger strike campaign, although it was one of the weakest in the first. tremendous boast to the Catholic population. In Enniskillen the crowd insisted on hearing Bernadette McAliskey, who was seen as the central spokesperson of the campaign. Even the Irish Times recognised her role.
mid-Ulster Bernadette Line told the they had their understanding of Bobby Sands has given a For the first time in many decades real political momentum has this as set in a motion forces throughout the impactare indicated od implications the fact that two major southern politicians were drawn into supporting the Sands' campaign -Donegal politician Blaney and Valera, a representative o the De valera avnasty 1 the ruling Fianna Fail party.
On the eve of the election De Valera went been motion the the Neil Sile De made a statement indicating support for Sands. nouncement of the victory out and TV a few hours before the opening of the conven. tion of tianna Hat which is being held in an mosphere of ot a general election.
Ovation When she arrived or the platform of the con. vention the delegates gave her a standing The more nationalist the two bourgeois parties of the south has obviously been thrown off balance.
The political counter-attack of the bourgeois parties and the press and politicians has centred around the theme that the Sands' victory represents nothing The an the over the radio TyI bec atanticipation tio wh can hac pec ovation. Un gre nat spli bef me Irish bal ty, Lat clai mis