the Cuts: Sat 2 Prit Sapaal (Slough IWA Exec), Pet sored by Hull Central CLP with speak rs from AGARIS and LPYS.
imminent ant Sort of Select Committe Tues 27 July ,Grand Committee Room touse of Commons. . Supported by NAC, ALRA, hip of the Proletariat', Saturday 21 August, 10amsom. Conway Hall. Red Lion Square. Sessions or Women. reland. the Public sector Cuts. speakers Judith Harrison, Chris Davies, and Davia Tatte. rur "Day-School" (RW), 49 Railton Hoad, London SC24 ULN.
STOP THE Criminal Trespass Bill! Public meeting with Jo Richardson MP, Ray Allen (NGA National Executive. Mondav 2o Juiv, oom, at stroud Greel Junior school, woodstock hoad, N4. Organistd D Hornsey Labour Party and Campaign Against A Crimi nal Trespass Law (tel. 01-289 3877).
UHBAN GURILLA KUCN. 25°24 wuly/ opr Garden (as part of GLC General Strike Festival).
cussed the relationship between patriarchy, imperialism, racism and fascism. A further meeting to discuss concrete ideas to set up a campaign will be held Fri 23 Julv. 7om. at the workshop in Earham st, ecz. Any women interested welcome to atteno.
in reland, domestic labour, abortior 1. etc. 23p (inc pop) trom socialis!
Woman, 97 Caledonian Road, London N.1 COME TO the Summer School for IMG members: 28 Aua - 1 Seot About E20 in all including room anc board in comtortable surrouncings. Redang hists uva ble soon. Book now as places lim NGALI FRIENDS in Europe and elsewhere, ngalı books and Srani-Dal-Bipiab (Fourth in latonal paper) contact: bengal, c/o internationaler Box 3274, 10365 Stockholm, Sweden SEX DISCRIMINATION ACT-pamphiet contair ›apl trom: socialist womar *A seven year prison sentence meted out last week to a Finsbury Park woman for performing an illegal abortionlaying to rest the claim fiat backstreet abortions have disappeared in Britain.
*The imminent publication of a new restrictive report from the remaining rump of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Abortion.
*The continuing assault on aborton rights by reactionary gynaecologists. anti-abortion groups and cuts in the NID.
Such developments underlined the importance of the National Planning Meeting of the National Abortion Campaign in Leicester last weekend. Fron the meeting came a series of proposals designed to nghi me atest attacks on abortion rights, and particulariy the forthcoming Select Committee report. Ihe measures agreea include a house of Commons meeting on 27 July and a possible demonstration against the report and any threatened legislation based on it Evidence These immediate steps will be comDementec Dv me satona- Dua o Women's Abortion, the planning of which occupied the major part of the NAC meeting. The importance of the Tribunal was explained by Judy Watson of the IMG and Haringey NAC, who said that the Tribunal 'must be a mass event, with a target of attracting 4-5,000 people The Tribunal will hear evidence collected bv campaigns launched by trade unionists and local community groups; and, argued watson, everyone attenonng should take responsibility for passing up from the frustration and isolation felt by millions of women tied to the kitchen sink by the idea that a woman's place is in the home', and the corresponding lack of childcare provisions.
her daughter explained to the Guardian that she lived alone in a first floor flat with no space for the children to play: "I had no friends...... thing got on top of me and I just couldn't cope any more. I used to go for my daughter, I would give her a real beating".
VALIUM her doctor explains: 'I was at the end of my tether and just came away with a prescription for valium'.
Instead of valium, women need to be able to break out of this isolation and allow children the stimulation nursery provision offers But nursery education in schools and classes has declined from provision for 16 per cent of underBEFORE YOU GO TO BED TONIGHT, two children will lie battered to death as a result of violence in the home. At least one more will suffer permanent brain damage. These are the horrifying figures presented to a Commons Select Committee this month.
All too often this violence wells existent.
Last week, a woman who battered -CYCLYnurseries by 1949.
Another woman who did turn to bours. ren under that age almost nonDay nurseries, which cater only for the welfare needs of children, have fared no better since they were briefly expanded to meet the needs of the war-time economy. In 1945 there were over 1,500 day nurseries. But following the war, with two million women made redundant as the need for cheap labour declined, the number fell to only 903 government-funded day erBy 1974 this figure had been health. halved to 453. This meant one place for every 200 children in Britain.
Some women and children are worse off than others. Recently the National Foundation for Educational Research showed that working class children have least chance of underfive provision. And the Race Relations Commission has also produced evidence to show that Asian and West Indian mothers have even less opportunity of nursery provision than their white working class neighlocal authorities have abandoned nursery spending in 1975-6. Other areas have not taken up their allocation for building because no funds exist for facilities and staff. In Strathclyde, 40 of the planned 90 nursery schools have been axed and this at a time when unemployed primary teachers are told that the decline in the birth rate has cut demand for their skills!
But the lack of under-five care is not simply explained by the cuts in social expenditure. It is fed by the notion most fully worked out by psychologist John Bowlby, who claimed to provide evidence that the first five years of an individual's life are crucial tor their mental REJECTED Bowlby argued that without a continuous relationship with the mother the child's future would be irreversibly disfigured by delinquency and instability. He therefore attacked the provision of nurseries for working mothers as they "have an adverse effect on the child's emotional growth"
These ideas live on. When the Plowen Committee suggested an
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