A section ot the 0,000 strong crowd who demonstrated in September against Oxtord's t3m Govhave science.
Dersonale other members practice.
SUSPENDED SCHOOL! they operated a at Highbury Grove MOORS.
action will sanction to such action.
Little Ilford, down the country For rred Jarvis General Secretary of the NUT. On the one hand Jarvis spoke tingham: of how he 'deplored' Healey's latest attack on education; on hit the building The witch-hunts OWn - union who actually fight the cuts in big Fees Thus Jarvis has suspended NUT members at Little Ilford new -LOHOOT because 'no cover' refused to take the classes of teachers who were absent for more than three days - in protest at the cuts Now Jarvis is threatening the same punisnment on teachers school, North London, where the staff nome bunaine are also operating 'no cover'. years, - union members at the school, Jarvis impression. in the minds of your colleagues that unofficial neas But pressurise giving official But it is the teachers at Highbury Grove SCHOOS Cane operating who neicate une in which the latest cuts There is also the example to be followed of the 5,000 who demonstrated in Oxford's It is no use relying on the likes of Jarvis to throw back educational deprivation and teacher The only way in which a successful fight back can be won is by followextending WHaT happening at Little Ilford, Ox- by build ing the broadest possible unity in action against Healey and where necessary against JarAct.
House mum line nection with laid professional British Army is now the most highly trained and motivated counter-revolutionary force as the Irish The demand that the Labour • Shout from both NATO and Ireland would, if won, immediately cut defence spending by half - remoney to build tions 400,000 council houses to house the million homeless in Britain.
The demand for trade union rights in the army would give the opportunity to our correspondent and a senior J. HEWITT, President of UCATT BE/269 Branch, writes from Notmajor bankruptcies have trade in the Not tincham area. The crash of Davic Chares Homes calisec about SUI Vic hanging over the head of employ -nese cosures are lust some o the results of the continuous and deliberate Government policies of cutting public spending — cuts in nomes ScHools. ere. nese curs nave made sure ing workers the largest group o workers on the dole queue fifth, to be precise situation win one mion nomeiess, over crowded scools, and a desperate shortage of beds in the NHS. Healey's iatest cut Chancellor £300m off over the next twc plus the cutting of the rate sup port grant will lead to a reductio n contracts and even more work ers skills nrown on the scrap unemolovment does noi only hit building workers. ThouAS THE COLLECTION of evidence and mobilisation for the Abortion Rights tribunal progresses, events on une parnamentary scene empnasis once again the need for continued vigilance and activity in the working class movemenco cerere ano exero me oroysons orue oraDorgOI The Criminal Law Bill now being introduced through Not Lords seeks other things, to increase the maxifor offences in con Act from £100 to £1,000. This has been presented simply as an attempt to clamp down on illegal abortionists.
However It wil no way solv the problems of back street abor tions. which arise because of the inadequacy of the NHS provisions. And it will also open wider the door to those who are trying to deter doctors who provide abor tion on demand, since they persis tently argue that this is 'illegal under the terms of the 1967 Act.
Another development has been the final report of the superficial glance at their proposals might suggest that the leopards hae chantee tier soors are were at least concerned about making zoorion sater ane more easil available. A closer scrutiny quickly els beis such an idea None of their recommendations are anv advance on the limited steps already being taken by the DHSS to improve the NHS service, and most are a positive hindrance. For example. the Report suggests that abortion units should be set up in local hospitals, but only on a 'strictly experimental basis, and only where women entitled to have an abortion under the terms down by the Abortion Act 1967" can't get one DOCTORS Since it is doctors who decide who is entitled to an abortion under the Act, and since the Select Committee wishes to allow ant abortion doctors to continue in positions of responsibility in the NHS, it is clear that there are very few places indeed in their eyes where such experimental units would be needed.
Areas like Birmingham, where in 1974 only 12 per cent of aborwere done on the wHo would probably continue that way, since Professor Hugh McClaren member of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child gynaccologist it tne sands of workers in the building suDoiv inoustry are areacy teeline the squeeze, with a large surplus of bricks and cement and orders continually falling.
Other dangers are looming up The National Federation of Build ing Trades Employers have laun ched a massive campaign in the Cect works sonemes, not ust t terms or major construction con tracts, but also routine mainten ance of existing homes.
In addition, Tory councils put recuncancy tor direct works em ployees at the top of the list.
ground to "ump all its SYDICHE WILH antidot ana ciency.
What we in Nottingham UCATT are callino for to combat Dotr unemployment and the deliberate of the industry is works to maintain and improve the standard people, - coupled wiin an expansion of direct labour schemes as a step towards the full national sation of both the building and and by throwing out these anti-abortion doctors, can regional in equalities be eliminated.
Another suggestion is to mount a morouen Invesuzanion or t true cost of abortions to the NHS with bay oca charges mennonca a one guide line. The logic is presu mably to establish that the abor tion service is so expensive that at a time of NHS cuts it can't be afforded or provided free of charge!
SESSION But as if this wasn't enough, there is the news that high up or the list of Private Member's Bill: this session is almost certain to be one which will attempt to restrict further the grounds for abortion under te law dy tinkering witn the "social clause in the 1967 Act - a widens cause which conscere the scope for sympathetic doctors to give abortons legally This renewed attempt to consign women to the horrors of backstreet abortions requires a stepping up of the campaign in defence of the "67 Here To see aborton on ce mand. The Tribunal on 29 January has an polars Da to Day u out to thousands of people une present resencuons ol abortion, as shown by the evidence to be presented there by womel who are directly affected, and by other working class people It will also lend weight to the call to be put out by the National Abortion Campaign for a demonstration against any anti-abortion Private Member's Bill.
Day of Evidence
Abortion Rights Tribunal CENTRAL HALL WESTMINSTE JANUARY Z80
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