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The Clarence Thomas- Anita Hill hearings were an important step in taking sexual harassment out of the closet. Despite President Bush's public declaration that Anita Hill's testimony was "unfounded," many women and men have been newly energized in the struggle to defend women's rights.
Now that Clarence Thomas has been confirmed (and so quietly sworn in), what does it mean for women's rights? The Supreme Court, even before Thomas's nomination, showed that it is stacked against women. Several state abortion law appeals are moving toward the Court, increasing the Pro-choice supporters must use their anger and energy to build a powerful movement to defend abortion rights. It would be a mistake to tie the women's movement to some Democratic Party "star"-male or female. We need a mass movement so strong and visible that the Supreme Court, the The National Organization for Women has called for a demonstration in Washington, D.C., on April 5, 1992. NOW said it wants a million people there. Let's start organizing to make it happen! Let's plan for local building have won only about 8 per cent of the vote, and about the same as the Confederation for an Independent Poland, a romantic nationalist group that got an Pro-choice demonstrators march in San Francisco, Calif., on Oct. 5. insignificant vote in the past elections.
There could hardly have been a greater humiliation for the president's party.
Since Mazowiecki's defeat, Walesa, of course, has been responsible for the capitalist restorationist policies of the government. During the presidential campaign, he took an ambiguous line toward these policies. According to the New York Times (Oct. 29), the Center Alliance campaigned this time in favor of "rescuing" the state corporations— that is, for softening the pro-capitalist "shock therapy." But the actions of Walesa's government clearly spoke more loudly than the words of his party.
Moreover, two parties considered suclegislators, and the president are forced to respond in our favor. cessors of the Communist Party-the Left Alliance and the Peasants' Party got almost as many votes as the new main parties of the new elite.
When I visited Poland with a delegaactions around the country - CLAUDETTE BEGIN (continued on page 17)