Fighting in the the be spread:
" write a ever to explaining reading in February.
donation to the Campaign National council and ask them to: public meeting on the Bill;
the 28 October demonstration. call which has gone out from the National Abortion Campaign and the Labour Abortion Rights Campaign.
The NAC/LARC Trade Union Liaison Committee have sent out a special letter as part of the build-up to TUC-sponsored demonstration on 28 October against the Corrie Bill. The letter suggests a number of ways in which the fight against Corrie can your MP s/he should vote BILL:
3 They of the welfare state against the Bill CORRIE'S ANTI-ABORTION 4. Women should have a democratic right to decide for th Al race orons moul tight for this right just as they fight agains belongs in the control of ee prenane more ran and pay with their labour for the dismantling 5 fore in does to desire from me leat on or te lond Support the TUC demonstration 12 NOON SPEAKERS CORNER HYDE PARK LONDON recorded Saturday.
day-care and plans publicity SAW Demoralised, melted sway.
protest wark Workers Party. •Ihi against leading mass the public While leftish abortion women's the The Sept, Lots the Saturday September.
down for RESOUNDING victory for of the Corrie Bill in South London The occasion was the opening of a clinic at South London Women's Hospital, Clapham Common. Opponents of a woman's right to choose, parading under the banner of the anti-abortion group Life, had announced their intention to demonstrate outside the hospital demanding • the closure of the day-care clinic.
But the Wandsworth Campaign Against Corrie arranged a counter-demonstration which mobilised 200 people in support of a woman's right to choose and the opening of the clinic despite the short notice. The Life march was only 150-strong on arriva take in flowers children in the hospital ward — a sick stunt hastily abandoned when the Life organisers opposition. their forces simply of- the anti-Corrie included the local trades council, a number of NUT branches Wandsworth, Lambeth and Southcampaigns against socialist feminist groups, and local branches of the Labour Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Internațional Marxist Group and the Wandsworth: Campaign Against Corrie now intend to lobby the surgery of local Labour Ml Tom Cox, who voted for the Corrie Bill at its second reading. The lobby takes place at opm on Friday 7 September at 611 Garratt Lane, Wandsworth. International meeting Tights' forum organised by the International Contraception, Abor tion and Sterilisation Campaign, Fri 7 :7.30pm, Conwav Hall, Red Lion Sq, London WCL Street action CAMPAIGNING against the Corrie Bill has begun in Birmingham. The main aim of the campaign locally is to get trade unionists involved in the fight tor a woman's right to choose of activities are in the pipeline. Apart from petitioning in the town and among trade unionists campaign hopes. set . ир anti-Corrie groups in the National Union of Teachers and the National Union of Public Employees Special events planned include a day of street action in twelve different areas of Birmingham on Saturday & September 2 September while a mass event on will have street theatre, exhibitions and singing to publicise a public meeting on the 26 The group wants to get a train the demonstration London on 28 October, hopefully full of trade union members from the
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WHY TRADE UNIONISTS SHOULD MARCH AGAINST
A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE Wandsworth