Most of this week the pages of the capitalist press have been blazoned with reports of women marching in Oxford, calling for the victimisation of trade union militants and a return to work by British Leyland workers at Cowley.
This is a powerful reminder that Ly drawn into strugeles at their place of work, many remain isolated in the home. They are especially vulnerable to capitalist propaganda, and are a potential force which can be whipped into action by employers and rightwing organisations, SPUC Anti-abortion groups, such as the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, by arguing for restric tions on the Abartion Act, re-inforce the idea that women should see their wife and child-rearer, Right wing groups play on women's isolation SPUC has called for higher family allowances, better housing, and an end to the "stigma of illegtimacy" in leaflets for their rally to be held in London on Sunday, 28 April.
They thus appear to be tackling the problems which women have to confront daily. But what kind of part can women be expected to play in although women are being increasing: the struggles for better housing or -any other demands, if they are even unable to regulate the number of children they have?
Moreover it is clear that SPEC'S call for subsidies to induce landlords to bouse lantibes with children, and for councils to provide herger flats, is not designed to help the homeless, but only to help keep women tied to the home.
Their demand for increased family allowances is the same. They see any addition to the family budget as a way to ensure that women aren't first and most important job as house- encouraged to find a job outside the home.
The anti-SPUC Rally on Sunday 28 April will assemble at Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park, at 2.00 pm The Red Ladder group performed their new play on women's oppression for the first time in London on Monday night, before a packed audience at a moating organised by the London Ad Hoe Committee against SPUC of 80,000, These members, many of them women, can be used for other causes which the SPUC Executve Committee may decide to lake up They have agreed in the past to circulate to their members Mary Whitehouse's petition for the Anti-Ohscenily Bill, Their willingness to use National Front members as stewards at SPUC mectings is even nore ominous.
Ad Hoe Committees have been set up throughout the country to fight SPUC's ideas and to organise a counter rally on 28 April.
cy of getting increasing numbers of trade unionists-both men and women-on these committees. Only when the inhour movement begins to organise to break down the isolation of women in the home, will they be able to count on the support of women in hard-fought industrial struggles, SPUC now claims a membership BEWARE?
A timely warning - this time from angry Lambeth marchers, who confronted their MP, Marcus Lipton, at the House of Commons on Monday