[Woman Worker is published by t Workers Socialist…]
Woman Worker1980 1980-11-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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Woman Worker is published by t Workers Socialist League as part of the fig to mobilise women together with the wor ing class in the international fight again capitalism. As Trotskyists we are fighting reconstruct the Fourth International-t world party of socialist revolution-to le the struggles of the working class.
Our programme, based on the Transitio al Programme, is directed towards linki women's struggles for democratic righ and against economic oppression, with tl need to overthrow capitalism.
*Women to take on positions of leadership within the unions in order to fight for these policies.
*Joint price committees of trade unionists and housewives to organise the fight against inflation.
*For a sliding scale of wages on top of flat rate increases: for wages to be linked to he price increases as assessed by elected ht committees.
*For strike action ana occupations to ISt defend the health, education and social to services and threatened factories. he *For open-the-books committees to disad cover the real financial state of the social services, and private companies threatening closure.
*For nationalisation under workers"
management without compensation of firms that declare themselves bankrupt.
*Against all anti-abortion legislation-for free abortion and contraception on demand and workers and consumers control of the health service.
*Solidarity with struggles of women internationally against oppression by international imperialism or by the Stalinist bureaucracies in the deformed workers states.