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CND The Labour Campaign for Gay Rights has published a model campaign leaflet.

Copies from LCGR, 6la Bloom St, Manchester 1.

DO we really want Britain run on Victorian values?

Four years of Thatcher's government have meant drastic cuts in our most basic services.

Even the Health Service is being cut, which has led directly to the import of blood products from the USA which passed on AIDS to haemophiliacs in this country.

Foot with Labour manifesto The basic principle of the Tories is simple: "The pursuit of means nothing unless it includes equality is a mirage. Opportunity the right to be unequal" -Margaret Thatcher.

tion of a system 'where basic needs - housing, health, education - are for all, and the replacemeni of this by the greed society, where only those who can afford it get what they want.

the family. There is pressure to conform with her idea of how things should be, and those who do not fit in are increasingly out on a limb. Labour is the only party that recognises the diversity of Britain today - something which gay people are particularly aware of. Labour is, building on that diversity to help enrich all our lives.

are now introducing employment clauses which outlaw discrimination on the grounds of 'sexual orientation'. Authorities which have done this include the GLC and the ILEA - which would both be abolished by a turther Tory government. The next Labour government will amend the Employment Protection Act to stop a person's sexuality being an admissable reason dismissal.

Labour councils in many areas In other words, the destruc- now recognise what gay people give to the community - not least in their rates bills - and are beginning to give something back.

The GIC is funding a lesbian and gay centre for London and has given grants to many gay organisations including Lesbian Line, The Tories go on and on about Gay Switchboard and the Gay Teenage Group. Other Labour councils in London are also fundN ti Many Labour local authorities icialists for a

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THE LOCAL reports below cover only a small cross-section of about 600 events, demonstrations and protests in England on May 24. And those 24 SCOMIN 600 events in turn were only part of an international women's day of In Britain hundreds of thousands of women took part - though not the millions that would have been needed to make initial hopes of a women's general strike come true. Labour Party women's sections were actively involved in many areas, but it seems that organised trade union involvement was mostly limited to a number of NALGO branches.

Active and public identification with the protest by prominent Labour Party and trade union women, or even strong publicity for the Labour Party NEC's support for the day - say, the Labour Party giving over its daily press conference that day to a platform of women peace campaigners - could have boosted both the action and Labour's election ERISTIONAL WOMENS DAY 2L, MAY campaign. But Labour leaders were too busy trying to fudge the maniThe job now is to use the contacts, links and organisation built up for May 24 to take the fight for unilateral nuclear disarmament further into the labour movement (especially the trade unions) and the women's action for peace. festo's unilateralist pledge out of existence.

movement.

The next major activity planned is an international women's of Greenham Common on July 4 to LEICESTER saw a whole range of activities on the 24th. There were a midday demonstration and rally; strike action by 50 women NALGO members, supported by some men; demonstrations at British Telecom (who have an underground communications centre).

Cundys (a firm that decorates air force quarters at Greenham Common) and the army recruitment office; a peace studies sessMAY MELA Peoples march for jobs ARCH FOR TORS 1983 Sages: " 'Die-in' in Coventry shopping precinc:

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