Women's Fightback

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JHE A - TIT'S A YOUNG TO HAVE the main black community in Coventry and over half our members are black.

Although black women sutfer as much racism as black men, they rarely attend meetings. This isn't because they're not capable of it — as Anwar pointed out, but because they're often not allowed to: 'I suffered it myself, Anwar ha in Covent the meeti she'd spo people alr about the ially on A how they saris bur white girl: on Asian hair. or hair. id only arrived try just before ng in Foleshill. ken to several eady. She knew attacks, especsian women -have had their nt, how some s at schools spit girls, pull their even cut their • life? women and only two of them black - if every bloke had allowed their girlfriend or wife to come there'd have been not only 400 people there but 800." The same applied to rallies and marches.

Asian women can take an active part in struggles was the message of the Please note girls, these are only stop gap jobs till you start breeding.

But then if you do get pregnant and don't want by nearly 2,000 Asian women shouting and chanting.

We spoke about self-defence - a YS member spoke of the hostility at first even in the YS to women doing defence work. Perhaps significantly a group of young Asian men left before the doctors, MP's and priests are mainly men!

I call for positive discrimination for women -that is in every Labour must realise that. It isn't our religion which keeps us back — sometimes that's just an excuse, but it's the men. Yet we can fight and we will!"

JUDITH BONNER Coventry North East YS and understand woman's problems but only a woman has them.

Positive discrimination is a temporary measure, because, hopefully, men will eventually get over their sexist attitudes and start treating women as the equals they are. P:S: But this doesn't mean of course, that i would favour would favour a rightwing woman instead of a left-wing man who would represent women's rights better.

Kate Williams SW Wolverhampton YS 0.16 clober anthly per of + women i. Mpaign BOUR )VEMENT SMTBACK OMEN'S WO9 SMATHY: RIGHT WOMEN iN THE A JOB MARRiAGE TRAP The new Women's Fightback 10p plus postage from 41 Ellington St, London N7.

The Jobs Express train sets out from Newcastle GIVE US A on November 23rd. There FUTURE will be 375 youth on it by the time it reaches London 4 days later.

It's organised by our old friends the TUC along with The National Union of Students and some other groups. You'll remember the TUC from the People's March earlier this year; you'll not remember them for saving any jobs though.

But this time its just for -whaT The 4 day lightening tour is supposed to bring to the haven't already • noticed, future?

that there are a lot of unemployed youth. In fact, over half of the total number of unemployed are under 25.

The demands coming from the train are 'Jobs, Education, Training (!!?) and a Voice in the Country's Future' On the TUC'S record of fighting for jobs, not a lot be said, as they haven't done a lot. What a 'voice in the country's future' means, we're not sure; maybe overthrowing capitalism and seizing power, but we doubt it.

However, there will be Class Fighter supporters on the train and its up to us and the labour movement in all the towns the train goes through to fight for demands that really will stop unemployment: cut the • hours, not the jobs, strike and occuppy to save jobs, like Laurence Scotts, Lee Jeans and many other workplaces (with zero support trom Labibu Wome MAKE Poli NOT

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