Workers Socialist League

Socialist Press, Trotskyism Today, Woman Worker, Class Fighter and the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee, 1975–1984

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Woman Worker no. 2, August 1979 · scan p. 4 · about 240 words

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NAC lobby of the TUC tions performed in England and Wales. So, if Life's predictions are correct, and the numbers of women wanting abortions Tory values of 'law and order' can be embraced by some women who seek only an end to the instability and strain in their own oppressed families.

Denied any other perspective, they can believe that immigrants, trade union 'wreckers' and social security 'scroungers' are the cause of their problems rather than the capitalist class. This opens up the danger of racialism and can make certain women fundamentally opposed to the only real solution to their oppression, revolutionary socialism and internationalism.

WE SAY: *UNIONISE ALL WOMEN WORKERS!

For effective official blacking and mass picketing to support unionisation struggles: for full strike pay! *RECRUIT UNEMPLOYED WOMEN TO THE UNIONS!

Organise women to fight alongside employed workers in defence of jobs and conditions and for full nursery and abortion facilities. *COMBAT INFLATION: FOR A SLIDING SCALE OF WAGES AND BENEFITS!

Fight for cost of living clauses to provide increases in line with a price index worked out by local committees of trade unionists and housewives. *DEFEND ALL JOBS!

For work sharing on full pay. Occupy work places threatened with redundancies or closure; demand supporting strike action! *OPEN THE BOOKS!

Elected committees must reveal the profits made by the banks and major industries; show the way the public sector is exploited for private profit; and fight for nationalisation without

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