at successfully shelresponsibility and hence sign their Report of Committee. They had only 'minor' restricBut it paving further restrictions.
Associaparlia these so-called took a comAccording to its press edly try to way for a clear defeat.
TERRAIN pro-cnoice Parliament.
nist Party goodwill of As on move on it.
of have never bers campaign.
tions, seeing Published by Reigocrest Lid., foe RED WEEKLY 97 Caledonian Road, London NI Only the National Abortion Campaign con- union concern. demned the entire report as the way for With the new threat of the Benyon Bill, we can expect the same unprincipled action from these MPs and the organisations that follow their lead be unless a movement is built which can impose its needs on major point representa tives of the working class.
Without this kind of movement, the MPs will undoubtBill through relying simply on parliamentary manoeuvres, such as trying to talk out the anti-abortionists. This will pave the Parliament is the terrain on which the anti-abortionists are strongest. It is therefore crucial that any opposition to the Benyon Bill demands that the MPs who claim to support the carry out the fight for its goals and aims both inside and outside Unfortunately the Commuhas adopted course which also relies on individual other political issues, the CP readily took up the right of women to abortion once the left MPs began to But, tied to the coat tails of the lefts, and to a typically social democratic conception as issue of 'social' concern, they put the organised strength of their 25,000 membehind the aims of the At best they have mobilised their women's secunal outside the realm of trade Not infrequently it has been CP members who have proved the biggest obstacles in the fight for abortion rights within movement. They have insisted, for instance, that the TUC Charter should adopted rather than the Working Women's Charter. A difference between the two is, not surAVAILABLE from Red Books 182, Pentonville Road,London, N1 30p including post and packing. Just out!!! why the next NATHE conference However, even where the CP has supported abortion initia -in labour movement bodies where they wield some influence they have never once mobilised this support Yet campaigns that have been built to keep open hospitals threatened with cuts - including the abortion facilities would be infinitely strength ened if the CP used its indusstrength, taking the demands raised and workers of these facilities.
However, this would force the CP to rely upon the mass involvement of the rank-and-file membership of the labour movement, which cuts right across its strategy of an alliance with the left Unemployment demonstrated, cor wilmove quell any developments which threaten go beyond Only if the 29 January Tribon becomes a launching pad for a campaign firmly committed to united mass action to win a woman's right to choose will its full potential be realised. realised.
DODIE WEPPLER - sectarial antics of the socialist workers carv mos recently seen in their call for theil own' demonstration at the time o the second reading of the Benyon Bill — are just as serious a threa to ine abomon rents campalen The next issue of Red Weekly wil take these up in more detail.
both for raising interest in Charter and for showing how much inequality exists in turtne and higher education for women as teachers and as students.
LIZ LAWRENCE [Member NATHE Northern Region Women's Rights Advisory Com mittee, in personal capacity].
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CENTRAL HALLWESTMINSTER. Rally with RED WEEKLA supporters for: A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE - FREE ABORTION ON DEMAND. A WORKING CLASS ENQUIRY INTO ABORTION RIGHTS AND FACILITIES
ABORTION RIGHTS- iNOMANS
A SOCIALIST PERSPECTIVE