IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

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Socialist Challenge No. 86, 8 March 1979 · p. 3 of the scan · 887 words

The scan: sc-n86-mar-8-1979.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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Waiting for three hour your tummy waen you re oregnant is exambe LiverDooNs infancy mortality rate is the second cuts in the NHS also affec women. If sick and old people can't be taken into hospital because of the ack or ocos. women nave to look alict them at nome At the same time as health services Wages at a bus stop to get to It's hard and frustrating to Children are having further to school as local schools are closed down, and it's women who there on caraca as a low onlony. mursc services they need.

Jim Callaghan suggested setting up a Ministry for the Family because he said that the country couldn't keer travel BUTC going if women didn't provide all the ack-up services they do.

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are always there whe Netherley in a rent strike, ines in thei WICH wome of the left.

As wives or strikers.

strike ways of striking would develop withholc effective ways of strikers case. supermarkets. involved in the creches should say that it's effective.

more involvement information part in occupations to TCDOTE OF THE demonstranor - many women nave as we've tried to take women's was untrue backed by the NAFF there is no evidence poreculase in- Doml and was Datronising part in the trade Be also vital have control over BLUEC BUYDIYCU OLI Left. and going genes more women unions, but this is difficult wher mccunes are ned outo work-hmE and women can't find anyone to look to be more militant has oypassce unIOn ouciaoom. rorinstance. une womer aline to coline tactorv in kirkhi where unions are very weak, occupied Too often the left has been guilty o those SCLULIE involved at the point of Droducuon — mousewives - area oc cause and a conservative part of the But the action of housewives in Road Left. housewives can be an important pari consumers directly affected by the should be within the involved. If they were, more effective злос ас тогс астостанс ат Dave DUDUCISIn SuCh as Women should "seeking to committee:

pacts mvorc more members ofte women, chidren, tenants grout other workers not directly involved The surprised at this development which represents the logical end for the ever-broadening Broad Borop inemocratic Ma 'democratic open the door to all sorts of new Liberals and independent right-wingers for example — as well as the groups already in the Broad Left.

When this becomes public there will be a few red faces at King Street. When News from Nowhere first announced the plans to wind up the Broad Left - before the CP had consulted the National Organisation Labour Students, the other main force inside the coalition - Sally Hibbin, the party's student organiser, told us: The Communist Partv will remait committed to the Broad Left.

So committed in fact that Hibbin and the NOLS chairperson wrote us an angry letter the record SUCCEE *There is absolutely no question of the party political groups abandoning a commitment to the Broad Left.

They added more truthfully: *Your reporter was quite clearly told that this concept was, and is, not part of the discussion taking place within the Broad This was true on two counts One, our reporter was told this. Two, it was not being discussed Broad Left. The whole point of our story was that NOLS had not been told!

Aaronovich, leading CP student, told us that work with the Union of Liberal Students and left Christians would be within the broad lines of CP policy. And so it has proved outstanding problem •Well', said Bread n'Roses, we'll have to suspend your typesclung and position al meeting. "Blackmail', snarled the Leveller person. 'Yes', responded Bread 'n Roses, 'or you could call it holding the country to ransom, but that isn't your phrase we know.

The reply made it into the March issue Policing our health THE MAUDLING family, as far as NfN is aware has no complaints about the Royal Free Hospital, the multi-million edifice in Hampstead where Reggie met his maker. But then the nearest the former Home Secretary had been to a building site was by invitation of a certain architect.

Not so building worker Pete McGeer. Two years ago Pete injured his foot when he fell from a ladder, and treatment by various doctors had not improved matters. Last month he arrived at the Royal Free with a letter from his GP requesting urgent examination consultant. For preceding four weeks the had been bedridden.

doctor who said appointment would be neces sary. Pete sat tight. Then came a senior registrar, who blamed NUPE for the lack of beds. Pete refused to budge Then a hospital admini strator was brought in. Sh smiled diplomatically about their inability to help him. Pete

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