Feminist Guide to Womens’ Rights

wise from lack of washing facilities lack of sanitary towels, etc. and lack of ante-natal or child facilitics * that male screws have been used in beatings and searches.

The Tribunal holds the British Government directly responsible for these degrading and inhuman conditions.

PLAYING AT JUSTICE During the day the word came that the judge at the other court had found the Armagh 11 guilty and fined them a total of £290. Basil Mclvor, the presiding judge who took 30 minutes considering the verdict, said there was no doubt that for the first 15-20 minutes the demonstration was peaceful. He described the women in four photographs taken by the police as "a rick radio station (Big L) began broadcasting a weekly programme called Big W.. One section of this programme (which was compiled by 4 women from the local area) dealt with the problems women come up against in five areas -- work, marriage, social welfare, health and children. It was presented by Cathie Chappell. The information amassed on these subjects is now the basis of a pamphlet entitled Together We Stand (a feminist guide to women's rights) and published by the Bottom Dog yroup who publish a local radical paper of the same name, Together We Stand is a simply written, straightforward account look at our Constitution, -- what they are, how to obtain them, where they are provided and what to do to obtain them if they are not -- this booklet takes a critical The booklet covers in some detail the laws in such areas as: Women at work; Women at home; Women and the Social Welfare System; Women's health; Women and Children.

It is written by Cathie Chappell, project," contains several cartoons by Charlotte Cryer who also designed the attractive cover, and is published able from:

Sylvia Mechan, Chairperson of the Employment Equality Agency had "If we want the Equal Pay and Employment Equality Laws to help Irish women assert their rights to equality in employment, the first step is to make sure that everyone gets the right information and the confidence to use it. Cathie Chappell's pamphlet will be a big help in this task and | congratulate her and the distributors, the ‘Bottom Doy! for sponsoring this Owing to exceptional demand, this booklet has been reprinted for national distribution and is obtainBottom Doy 109 O'Malley Pk.

Southill, Limerick

Can the working class and their oppressed allies achieve a success-— ful socialist revolution in an economically backward country or do they have to wait for a breakthrouyh in SOCIALIST REPUBLIC PAGE 7 Both of them despised parliamentary (bourgeois) democracy as an illusory form of freedom, Their concepts of freedom varied in accor-dance with their different experi-