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control. And that will demand the throwing open of the capitalists' and the Government's books 1 read to prepare a workers' plan for its ines- production which defends jobs. sion:
* Who's Next for the Chop (the MaLe alised essential facts on unemployment) lant will - sup trom counter intormation Services, 9 Poland Street, London he people W1, or from Red Books, 97 try if it Caledonian Road, London N1. (add orkers IUD Or DODI mentary Select Committee on Abortion n protestar me moves to resrict women's rights to abortion still further. The Labour Government, however, has so far shown no signs of responding to the decisions made by the TUC and Labour rarty conrerences on unis issue - for free abortion on demand on the NHN. will depend on how the fight is mountunion movement to roll back this rightwing offensive.
tion is calling for an Anti-Select Committee to rebut biased evidence given to the Select Committee. This body will presumably give press statements to counter those coming from the Select Committee. But this, on its own, is not enough. fight must be waged to bring out as many people as possible to march against restrictions on women's abortion rights on 3 April.
• DISBAND THE SELECT COMMITThe decision of the TUC and Labour Party conferences can be implement- not through relying on a supposedly impartial parliamentary Select Committee which is in fact designed solely to restrict women's rights.
• REMOVE MPs WHO FIGHT FOR the Select Committee, committed to rallying reactionary forces around the issue or aboruon. Iney are tnus respon sible for perpetuating divisions within the working class around this issue - at a time when unity is of the utmost imPUELaRILC ed the policies adopted by the working class movement ane must pe called to account for their actions by their trade union sponsors and by their constituencies. MPs who have consistently voted in favour of restrictions on abortion must aiso oc maue accounaole to une workers movement. These "misleaders" can no loneer cialm to represent une interests of the working class and should be removed.
HIS 8UU0 InWhether it changes its position ed within the Labour Party and the trade Ine Aboruon Law Kerorm Associa A clear political ed only by the action of the working class ANTI-WORKING CLASS POLICIES Four Labour MPs are still sitting on (Amendment) Bill.
These MPs have flagrantly disregardTEE/FOR A WORKERS ENQUIRY Every organisation of the workers movement - trade unions, Labour Parties, women's groups and tenants associations - should publicly declare its refusal to submit evidence to this thoroughly discredited Select Committee. Instead it is important now that evidence of the real problem women confront in exercising their abortion rights - the lack of implementation of even the limited 1967 Act - be discussed on a na tional scale, to prepare for the national coordinated action necessary to deal with A serious threat to freedom of speech has arisen in Liverpool. In Mav last vear the Mersevside National Abortion Campaiqn organised a stall with leaflets, petitions and street theatre. Over 1,700 signatures were collected protesting against the introduction of restrictive legislation on abortion, as part of the national campaign against the James White Abortion But a reapplication for permission to stage similar activities the following month was refused by the Liberal Chairwoman of the Highways and Environment Committee of.Liverpool City Council, Mrs Doreen Jones. A letter written on her behalf stated that the area requested 'was provided primarily tor the convenience and comfort of city centre shoppers, anc on Saturdays in particular it is thronged with family groups, many witn voung chiaren. i nat sort or muieu is not. in mr. Jones's view an appropriate one for the type of propaganda disseminated at your exnibition on 3 may.
Liverpool City Council met on 24 November and also votvoted to disallow a stand in the city centre. Since then it has No MPs - regardless of their position on abortion - should agree to fill the vacancies on the Committee due to the resignations. Constituencies and sponsong umons should maswuct Mrs to refuse to sit on the Committee.
The MPs who have resigned from this Committee must now take the lead in the fight against restrictions. They must place themselves at the head of a campaign to fight for the implementation of the TUC and Labour Party conference decisions, by:
*issuing a call for an intense camLIVERPOOL COUNCIL AGAINST ABORTION.....AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH Council on 3 March at 1 p.m.
3 April demonstration and actively paruieipare in orgamsug Iu •issuing a call to the workers move ment to set up its own investigatory committees to look into the sabotage of the 1967 Act by reactionary gynaecol ogists and by the cuts in NHS facilities. voting against Healey s curs, whic! will de facto limit NHS facilities for •campaigning within the Parliamentary Labour Party against MPs sitting on the Select Committee as replacement. also refused to allow an International Women's Day march on the grounds that anything to do with women must be to do with abortion and therefore not suitable for children.
The campaign against NAC has extended to the local Radio Merseyside. The news editor has consistently vetoed any discussion of the pro-abortion campaign, while allowing a straight plug to be given for a demonstration organised by Ine society tor Ine rrotection ot unoorn cnilaren. And when it came to the Council's censorship decision, the only person interviewed was — guess who? - Doreen Jones.
Despite this massive campaign against NAC, the local cam paigners have refused to be muffled. A wide campaign has been mounted in the local labour movement for NAC's right to organise, leading to a demonstration of 500 people through Ine city last saturcav. inere will aiso pe a mass loooy or ene The experience of Liverpool shows that the whole abortion campaign raises fundamental questions about the oppression of women today - so fundamental in fact, that the authoritie: have to try to gag the campaign on Merseyside.
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