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GERRY BYRNE reports on a women's summer weekend. AT times over the last year, life in Women's Fightback has felt like a non-stop round of meetings, conterences and activities without a chance to pause for breath. Now's the chance for that breath - to take stock from what we've learned in these actions and assimilate some of the ideas We'll be discussing the male domination of language, sexuality and male violence; sexist images of women and how we internalise them; and theories of sex and class and But it will also be a chance to unwind and relax.

Women's Fightback summer weekend - July 17-18, in Staffordshire. For last minute details phone 01-607 9052 we've been developing.

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or 5268. JOHN HARRIS which you can pick up and browse through in a few hours. It deals with a comples subject and one on which it is obvious there is still a great deal of research which can be done.

Its strength hes in its examination of the ways in which sexism is perpetuated in education.

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While recognising the huge gulf between the theory and the practice of Labour policies, some of the actual proposals embodied in the Party's newly published Programme' can be used as a starting point for discussion - for or against. Arthur Bough investigates.

THE HOME Polioy section of Labour's Programme 1982 appeared as a 48page Supplement to Labour Weekly of 25 June.

It is divided into sections headed Labour's Plan for Jobs, Labour's Social Strategy, Planning and Environment, and Democracy and Human Rights.

In addition to an analysis of Labour's economic strategy which underpins the rest of the Programme, and a brief look at other impor.cant proposals, this review also looks at what the Programme has to offer the most oppressed sections of the working class.

rategy pressure, demands will be raised for the introduction of wage control. Indeed, talking about an annual economic assessment with the TUC, the Programme says this must include "such issues as the share of the national income going to profits, to earnings from employment, to rents, to social benefits, and to other incomes."

It is not clear to what extent suppliers will be taken over. The Programme speaks of public ownership in electronics electroncs pharmaceuticals, health equipment, the construction industry and building materials, road haulage, etc., but it is not clear whether these indusPRK SoCiAL CONTRACI SOCIAL CONFLICTI Arthur AWE BU PRUNE WA

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