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Anderson Hospital and women teachers and hospital workers were striking in defence of their jobs. In the same period, the Government tried to sabotage the Child Benefits Scheme; the row this caused at the Labour Party Conference is yet another indication of women's determination to fight back.
### RALLY FOR WOMEN'S
RIGHTS It is becoming clear that the development of the struggle for women's rights must combine two processes: evaluating the legislation and learning how to benefit from it, and at the same time building up our self-reliance so that we are able to take independent action to achieve our demands. In fighting for our rights we have found ourselves fighting the Social Contract, the cuts, unemployment and all the other policies of the Labour Government - but so far we have been fighting national, centralised policy in a fragmented way, area by area and issue by issue. The fact that we have lost more times than we have won is enough to show that this response is inadequate.
This is the conclusion the Working Women's Charter Campaign reached; and this has led it to call for a national rally — 'One Year On from the Sex Discrimination Act - A Rally has ПОРНОЦЕ