to be on the streets at night without escort.
its last conference.
ber of the Why is the NUS supporting the national Reclaim the Night' march on 20 January?
Attacks against Women widespread on the campuses and women's groups began to organise last term as at Sussex where there was an occupation.
This brought women together and the strength of campaign was demonstrated in me overwacming support at NUS conference for the march and launching campaign through the colleges.
This was important as there From Sara Burn Liverpool social workers strike committee.
SOCIAL workers on strike for pay re-grading and the right to negotiate salary scales locally are calling for the rejection of a national offer that will be put to a special local group meeting on 26 January The union leaders argue in a report which will be put to the vote that the offer of a revised national salary scale is the best they can achieve.
Never mind that willingness of these leaders to participate in a joint working the women's movement campaign against violence at Pamela Holmes asked ALISON DOWNIE, a memSocialist Students Alliance and NUS executive vice-president with responsibility for the women's campaign, what this means for NUS.
was a real tendency to lump racist and attacks on students together attacks on students as part of a general are problem of violence The last conference, and this demonstration, establish that violence against women is a particular issue that we need to LaKe up the movement.
You've been attending planning meetings, and NUS leaflets throughout the colleges explaining why the march is for party, the object of which is to formulate a revised national scale, has frustrated attempts by the strikers to force their employers to negotiate locally.
The NALGO leadership has failed to campaign among the union membership as a whole to gain support for the 2,600 workers on leaving us to go it alone. And it now seems to be trying isolate us from the rest of the union.
This month's NALGO's journal, the example, includes articles accusing social workers of using up the strike fund on a that women's self-organisation has been a bone of contention within the union in the past, what kind of impact do you think the SUDUOTE women only march will have?
It's already had a big impact. For the first time, people are beginning to understand why it's necessary for organise independently. body could argue with the need for the march to be for women OIV when other precisely to assert right to walk the streets without women the protection of men.
This has begun to chip away at the resistance of students to the idea of women's sel-organisation and opens d path for the NUS campaign to succeed in our student demands for a restructuring of NUS to enable women to play a full part in all the activities of the the union.
and Do vou see involvement of the NUS with ne women s movemen COn "lost cause'.
It so happens tional strike operations mittee with the proposal that a levy be imposed to sustain the strike fund we were told that finance is no problem.
strike, boroughs on contacting all delegates to the special group meeting explaining how local negotiations will benefit other issue of NAIGO. and for credibility of several trade union will be determined by the outcome of this dispute. A day of action in the form paign and for this and women to Nofighting our purpose women's movement pracuice many than it's ever been.
women's are now in the leadership.
If building women's movement this kind of that when approached the comCharter Group. supported from the tees. strike are now At the lobby tion of sections of the NALGO as a and spread the strike. I think it will. We've supported the National Abortion CamCOUNCI campaigns now beginning to help in organising.
We may be students but as women we face all the problems women face in society today.
So our campaign, while taking up the discrimination against women in education, is about oppression women in all spheres of life.
In this sense, we see ourselves contributing to the women's We are able to put this into because the women's campaign is stronger The left in NUS has seen it as one of the most important campaigns and, through fighting to build a strong campaign, serious a strong political -In this country then we must continue to develop links between NUS and the women's movement By Jon Central CLP)
of one day strikes, a rally and HOW lobby of the group meeting has LABOUT been called by the All-London Social Workers Action Group and the Residential Workers This call is Suonference of Strike Commit the Standing we will be calling for: a rejection of the leadership's report; an escalaaction; *Local representation of the strikers on NALGO's strike operations committee; and for a levy of the stand on entire membership to sustain fighting to rank Duveen (Hackney can socialists in the Party upsurge in workers" struggles and group together militants to to general This was the question which faced the steering committee of the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory at its meeting on 7 January. It came up with three proposals:
SCLV groups should hold public meetings to discuss what manifesto Labour should are *The SCLV would sponsor a conference on democracy in the labour movement, with the idea of drawing together all those democratise the January 20th Assemble
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through the West End of London to demand the right The march is being partly organised by the National Union of Students, which overwhelmingly supported
However we dress Wherever we go Yes means yes And no means no "This is a demonstration of women only, because we are demanding our right to walk safely through the streets without escort? Leicester