The rise in the divorce rate, the increases in wife-beating and childbattering, indicate that the economic crisis is making family life impossible to maintain for the working class. At the same time the rise of the women's movement and the fights currently being waged for abortion on demand and against cuts in education, health and nursery facilities indicate the possibFIGHTING THE CUTS Preparations for the London 'Women and the Cuts Conference called by the Working Women's Charter on 28 February are now going ahead. All labour movement organisations should begin to build this conference to carry forward the fight against cuts in social expenditure and unemployment attacks which are hitting women particularly hard.
Sponsorship and delegate letters are available, and are being sent out to trade unions, Labour Party branches, tenants' and women's organisations, etc; and donations are urgently required to finance the conference.
For further information and copies of the sponsorship and delegate letters, Road, London E.8. (tel. 01-249 3072).