IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

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Socialist Challenge No. 206, 16 July 1981 · pp. 15-16 of the scan · 210 words

The scan: sc-no206.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 3-4 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 15 of the scan

EDITED BY - MARGARET LLEWELYN DAVIES 1YUS twenty years on from the earlier accounts, but the picture of women's lives which emerges is little different. As the book shows, where the family is poor, it is the wife and mother who suffers most.

Housing conditions are appalling - most tamiller live in a couple of rooms cramped, often airless and damp.

When husband or children are sick, the wife will care for them. They probably qualify for a docschemes attached to the man's work • wife though will neglect her own sile is not entitled to any free medical aid except wnen sne Is pregnan has recently given birth. She can't attord arrer i pay for a doctor or ever a take to her bed ari res: welfare state: free medical Calle șocial services for children including free school milk;

A•N•D B•O.L.S.H.E.V.I.S.M HO LIPO Socialist Chalenge PAMPHLET 45р Pound A Week- Edited Working Class Wives by Margery Spring Rice Challenge pamphlet Stalinism & By Leon Trotsky 45p, available The Other Bookshop 328 Upper S:

Socialist Challenge 16 Juir 3€ =73e =

page 16 of the scan

Socialist Challenge Islington rally against fascist violence, see p5.

THATCHER'S THIJAS TROOPS ATTACK McDONNELL FUNERAL inted by East End Oft (TU Lia. Londono, London N1

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