Up for discussion at the next N.E.BristolDvisional Labour Party GMC is a resol-
-ution on student files, which reads as follows:
"This meeting views with concern the revelations regarding the keeping
of the records of University Staff and Students political activities,
It therefore calls for an independent enquiry."
On the 23rd of March the Bristol Womens Equals Rights Campaign held a meeting at which the BBC TV2 were present, filming for a programme called ‘People of the Seventies'. Two papers were read and discussed at the meeting. The first one was on the family as a kinship group. The main theme of the paper was that in late capitalist soceity the family as a kinship group was an anachronism, but rather it was an economic unit. Because of the capitalist ethics this means that members of the family outside of the immediate nuclear family were not treated any differently from non-family members. In fact this ethic even creeps into the nuclear family leading to various tensions.
The second paper read at the meeting was concerned with the individual in society, and the increased mobility of labour that arose from the isolation of the individual or nucleer family.
There followed a general discussion in which certain points arose, ©€.g. do we have the answers to these problems?, economic dependence of wives. Out of this came the idea of pay for housewives and the need to break down the old concepts of maternal self-sacrifice which in effect means that wives and mothers became depersonalised.
On April lst a march was planned by the womens group in support of the Family Planning Clinic, « which many people in Bristol are still not aware of. More about this in our next issue.
There was a demonstration recently in Bristol against the visit of the South African Ambassador, who was given 4 civic reception. Although the police were out in force some demonstrators managed to break through the cordon. One of the demonstrators was pushed against the Mayors car and arrested for obstruction. On police advice he pleaded guilty, being given the impression that he would be dealt with leniently. When he appeared in court he was fined £50. Martin Roisier then is in need of help to pay this fine.
Any donations towards this should be sent c/o E.Malos, Garden Flat, 1 Apsley Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2SH.