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students and trade unionists were firstly: to initiate a campaign on the Charter culminating in a nation-wide demonstration during International Women's Year (1975). And secondly, to national Women's Day-to plan proposals will be ammended to Ann Foreman Sheffield IMG around the Charter centred on the need for a broadly-based campaign. The local council's proposals to slash nursery provisions; the lack of abortion and contraception facilities (in Sheffield there is a 6 months waiting list for the pill); the strug gle of students for nursery facilities, and the fight for equal pay should all be centralised through the Charter.
Again Sylvia summed up the spirit of the meeting by suggesting that women from the women's movement, unite on the Charter as Proposals passed by the meeting invite trades councils to a national conference on 8 March-Interthe demonstration and extend the campaign. Hopefully this second include all activists involved in the agenda, and women are likely to find themselves with little support from the unions, who can be expected to argue that married men must take priority in the struggle The International Marxist Group put forward a resolution calling for a meeting to be organised during the Labour Party conference, to which Labour MPs and women involved in current and recent struggles would be invited to speak.
The fact that Labour has come up with proposals relating to women has enabled us in the women's movement-as socialists - to open this debate sharply in wider section of the labour moveThis would enable us to counterpose very sharply the necessity of women launching their own struggles to fight for equal pay to the legislation offered by Labour. demands we could put on the Labour Government in that meeting would be firmly linked to the self-organisation of women and their demands raised in the course of struggle.
However neither this resolution nor one calling for a national demonstration on the demands of the Charter to be held on International