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Red Weekly No. 166, 16 September 1976 · pp. 2-3 of the scan · 504 words

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I myself went on the Right to Work march, and I was sponsored by my trade union to march with the Women's Right to Work contingent. This, as reported quite correctly in your last issue, was with little debate.

I walked for four days, and throughout that period all I did was march. There was no discussion whatsoever at our mass meetings about the Right to Work Campaign's aims and obectives. There were people from all over Britain and not once did the mass meeting ask one of the comrades to make a report from their area. We didn't even have anyone to aDOUT work racialism, the Labour Party's women's right to attitudes.

1 myself am aware of all points, but I feel that those who did not know involved within the right demand left the march without an increase of their political awareness and understanding. The mass meetings could have been used as educationals, but instead it was more like camp drill.

The organisation within told him.

effectively unemployed overthrow of within the right to work speak this campaign. these arguments to work disagree campaign which tent VOUT attending meetings. And if you wanted to go to one of these meetings, you But this was not the case. Instead Deason & Co. would choose those who were to go to the meetings.

march because believe that everyone has the right to work and the unemployed need links with the trade unions. But at the sane time I believe that those employed or who want to see an capitalism which creates eternal unemployment, —need to be well aware of the struggles demand which are often forced to the back. These, such as the struggle of women [51 per cent of the population), need effective political recognition within The Right to Work Campaign must take up these specific issues, for if they do not allow people involved in particular demands [who in no way everyone's work] to raise them, the Right to Work Campaign will just become a club for La non-educ ative body. It will never be a national unites those empA number of homosexual women and men who took part in last week's Right to Work march were dismayed to find that while their participation was welcomed and their homosexuality accepted, their declaration of it was firmly discouraged.

The Brighton Right to Work Campaign invited the local group of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality to send a delegation, with the CHE banner, to greet the marchers at the outskirts of the town and to Join the last couple of miles of the march. were already perturbed, ports that groups of gays Liberation members who had joined the march in London had been forbidden to carry their own banners on the march that under protest they had complied with this requirement It was, therefore, hensive gays who turned up at Preston rark on tuestay banner, as did members of the Brightor

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