Socialist Feminist national conference

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expected Socialist Feminist national conference this weekend. These numbers illustrate the strength of the current within the women's liberation movement, which drew three thousand to the national conference last April in Birmingham.

But has the socialist feminist current made a big impact on the activities of the WLM?

Over the last few years the movement has been less active than in the early seventies when women's groups were involved in supporting a whole series of struggles - the nightcleaners, and National Interest.

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Or when they joined together with other women in nursery campaigns in different localities.

Ur course we nave been out on the streets, declaring our intention to reclaim the night for women. to protest againsi harassment and degradation.

But the initiative for these •INe revolutionary Current.

Within the movement we have often been forced to respond to theories put forward by other currents movement PALACE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION ON ABORTION RIGHTS Demonstration: London, 31 March, 1.30pm, Hyde Park March to Trafalgar Square with music from Soulyard Rally with speakers from the labour movement, NAC, NUSS, women, This has even been the case in OWI journal, Women, where the editorial have impossible to gather enough material regularly.

However, more positively, discussions going on in socialist feminist groups are very important. The contributions sent in for the feminist conference show range of activity and discussion that individual women have been involved in.

While we haven't been active within the collectively as de- nists, we are involved in our women's groups, re-activated and have built mixed campaigns on certain questions, partcuratty abornon attendance at the NAC trade union conference last autumn showed.

We have also been active in the anti-racist and anti-fascist movement.

We have taken part in a whole numper or acuivines and discussions around etc.

We've discussed struggles In found it ca and elsewhere.

produce it and debates conference the wide draw out activity and strategy. have socialist femiWe've set up committees as the imperiahow part in solidarity activity with India, Southern Africa, Latin AmeriBut the difficulty we have faced is not that no-one wants to do anything but that no-one movement Is is sure what socialist feminists particular should be doing.

This is the problem that this will tackle. build Through assessing and discussing our activities we will try to general and principles for socialist feminist and BIBe to discuss our unwaged f1.

failure to respond to the recent public sector struggles, where possibly the largest number of when evernave been we vee We missed a real opportunity to show that the WUHICH to interests of working class women. unity?

We need to discuss how to on tne basis of the Campaign LUS Abortion Rights, the Women workshops taking up international solidarity work to forge a real internationalist SOCIALIST FEMINIST CONFERENCE 24-25 March At Starcross School, Rising Hill Street, Penton St, London NI. Registration Friday night at 374 Gray's Inn Road London WC1. London and Home Counties:

Elsewhere:

Social - 24 March, 8pm — with Spoilsports. At Colombo St Community Centre, Colombo St, off Blackfriars Rd. Waterloo tube.

Note change of venue consciousness within the WLM.

And particularly we should work out our role within the women's liberation movement as a whole. How can we ensure that we continue the discussion different strategies for women's liberation without hampering our ability to act in We hope that women from many different areas of activity will come to the conference from the trades unions, the student movement. different left groups • so that we can have fruitful discussion on our future activity. waged f2, disco and

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in all modesty; our women know that

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waged £3, unwaged f2.