The NUS Women's Conference in Bristol on 8-9 November has laid the basis for an active campaign in the student movement agalst we arracks on women being co ordinated through the policies of the Labour Government.
Firmly rejecting motions such as an International Socialist-backed resolution to focus almost solely on abortion, the Conference recognised the wider impliCatons or tie cats ess to women by adopting a motion which emphasised we need to unk up with all sections of the labour movement in defence of working class rights and living standards.
The resolution included a demand for the NUS to campaign actively in defence of the NHS through support for the initiatives put forward at the recent MCAPP conference, and to fight for the implementation of the TUC and Labour Party also called on the NUS to build and swenginen une working women s charter Campaign, and together with women's groups in the colleges to support the Lormcomme women asanst me CuEs conference and build for the mass unemployment lobby on 26 November.
The Conference voted support for the moves by some members of the Association of leachers in Technical Institutions in Hemel Hempsted to introduce maternity leave for males, tus challeng ing the traditional attitudes towards child care as simply women's responsibility. The Conference also affirmed the right of women, both in the colleges and i tie laoou movement. to now crosee meetings. It thus recognised that women can only be liberated through their own self-activity.
Overall, the Conference represented a major step forward for the NUS women's campaign. It remains, however, for students to agat for mese policies in their unions and to get them supported by the NUS national conference. Sarah Roelofs included in the scheme. But even in icipating is pitiful - in Islington and Camden, only 39 percent of all GPs are involved which began on Monday, to coincide tary session. Lobbies of MPs, pickets out the week me wus ormese sev Bill.
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