WOMEN INVOLVED in the Livingstone Grant campaign are trying to ensure that women's issues are forced up the agenda in the leadership election.
They are fed up with the fact that t is the centreground of the Labour Party who have mado propaganda around making the party more this means getting rid of nasty macho' things like strikes and demonstrations.
They ignore the millions of women in low-paid, part-time jobs: without nursery facilities and deeply affected by cuts in pubic services. Making Labour listen to women is not about abandoning socialist policies. it is about rebuilding the principles of struggle and solidarity.
So women are coming together to organise a fairly unusual meeting as part of the discussion on what way forward for the party. Under the title Woman Speak: Labour Listens they have organised an afternoon of debato and dialogue to which al hose wno stood in the reacerno and deputy contests have boon invited. Each candidate will be given five minutes at the beginning, and five at the ond, to state what they think Labour can and should do in support of women. But the buk of the meeting will be discussion from the foor. The meetna has bean soonsored by Women for Socialism, Labour Women in NAC. Women in Black Sections and the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights. Speak: Labour Listens' Saturday 23 May, Red Rose Club, 129 Seven Sisters Rd, London N7 (Finsbury Park tube) 2-5pm. Wheelchair Access. Admission £1/50p. All Women Welcome. Sunday 17 May March to Kentish Town police station Called by Drummond St. Asian Youth Association
Assemble 2.30pm Drummond St., London NW1