The fight for the Working Women's Charter exposes the reality of Labour's attacks on women and has to form an inseparable part of any alternative leadership and pol icies to the Wilson-Healey-Callaghan Foot clique in Westminster.
The task facing this weekend's conference is to provide a framework for activity to resist these attacks and to carry forward the fight for women's rights around the demands of the Charter. Local campaigns should be organised around the inadequacies and sabotage of the recent legislation, with sup port for equal pay strikes and the setting up of investigatory committees to look into the workings of the Acts.
These committees could lay the basis for campaigns such as the fight for positive discrimination in educ ation and apprenticeships previously denied to women. Local activities of this kind should culminate in a national mass rally in December to draw together the threads of the fight for women's rights, one year after Labour's legislation came into WORK The conference will also have to take up the fight for the right of women to work, through solidarity with women fighting redundancies and the integration of women into all organisations resisting unemployment - particularly necessary in the . case of part-time and weakly organised women workers. These initiatives must also be extended to the fight against the cuts in social expenSuch activities can begin to end the usual isolation of women's strug gles and their specific problems from the mainstream of the work ers movement. To this end the call for a national conference on Women, the Cuts and Unemployment' will be an important step to ensure that the particular needs of women are recognised and taken up in the wider resistance to the Labour Gov ernment's attacks