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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY RALLY

Red Weekly No. 42, 8 March 1974 · p. 8 of the scan · 388 words

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huge anti-victimisation march in Oxford and finished with several colleges and universities occupied.

On Saturday, men and women from as far away as Scotland will be demonstrating in London to mark the anniversary of International Womens Day. What could be more appropriate under the present circumstances?

As Alexandra Kollontai, Minister of Social Welfare in the first Bolshevik government, wrote: "The working women understood that it wasn't enough to break up the stalls at the market or threaten the odd merchant: they understood that such action doesn't bring down the cost of living. You have to change the basis of the government... It was decided to have a Women's Day in every country as a form of strugple, This day was to be a day of international solidarity in the fight for common objectives and a day for reviewing the organised strength of working women under the banner of socialism':

It is only through the organisation of the working class, including housewives, women's liberation groups, trade unions that prices will be curbed, through actions such as strikes, blacking and boycotts.

Other issues of particular concern to women, such as the jailing of the Price Sisters, the growth of anti-abortion groups like SPUC, the slow progress made in the struggle for equal pay, will be discussed at a meeting to be held in Hyde Park, organised by socialist women who want to re construct the socialist tradition of International With the fall of the Tory Government, the student movement has exploded. The NUS Week of Action", called to back up the long standing campaign to raise students' grants, started with a Some of these struggles have been startlingly successful. Others contain indications of the sort of struggles which will be launched under Labour, and not just by the student movement.

that is in the interests of students and working people alike. International Women's Day provides chance to discuss campaigns like that against SPUC (photo shows last November's demonstration in London)

Woment Day Leave Churing Cross Embankment at 1.30.

Hyde Park meeting of socialists pon arrival Meeting at Central Hall Westm inster, organised by National Assembly of Women and Womens Co-op Guild, 4 p.m.

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