'aits ano ine drade •milln* aro Hul us tae Harker apitalsi class alonge belieres thar • donars aocialiss are:
• I. huild broad-based elass demedle lengenoes in oppaxon laborar iossepent. These should non-esclusive arouping together militants holding a mide range of political views.
To beyin to tight lor the unified demorratir resmlutionary socialist organisation which can, through application ot united tront hran lo be thousands "EPrISO workers engaged in strugkles.
ruch un organisation should he hared on the understanding that:
The serhs lu unite the fight of Tworher against »ith that of ether oppressed layers 01 S00I01 "omen, blach people. Lil! struggling lor liberation. This socialism can only he ithiered hs creating new organs if power and deleating with all neccars mean the power of she capitalis sale ,dur tacialiona Ihan what evisis in Britain irday. with full rights tor political parties and currenes that do not tuhe up arme against the seralis stan. The Mtalinist models in the TEsR and e ll g :li Palern Parape hise diseredited me alesin ee fe esta el millions of Ironghom the wirld.
HaTali i He are appored to them and will biTer tuli "pport io ill those fighting tor escialist demecraer. ihr losdes contronting in the John Corrie's Bill to amend character. virtually axe estimate is remarkable achievement.
and abortion would of members, oyudic.
secialism the hasses their months but called for free succession Members' Bills all her own fertility is now.
Parliament on 8 February.
Readers Herld THE TUC has told the press that it expects up to 40,000 people on Sunday's demonstration against — or more precisely to - the 1967 Abortion Act. approximately right, it will be a Not so many years ago, a woman (or come to that, a man) who stood up ad her union branch meting to call for support against restrictions on looks astonishment and howls of derision.
Those attitudes have changed, not substantially but enough for the TUC, representing 12.5m trade Sunday's mareh. Len Muray, ils general seceretary, will be among the speakers at the rally in Trafalgar This opposition to Corrie hasn't come about through some far-sighted liberal mindedness on the. part of the trade union leadership. It has been won by the patient and persistent activities of thousands of women and men on stręet corners, in meeting rooms, at conferences, and through public protests It is this activity which has built for Sunday's march, and not just in the past few Never since the women's movement abortion demand, of MPs have tried to add restrictions on abortion tbrough their The National Abortion Camprign has to take much of the credit for making millions of people realise that the time has come to stop talking about abortion in furtive whispers, and thøt the time when every woman should demand the right to control To the Campaign Against Corrie should go the credit for mobilising much of the opposition to the present Bill, expected to receive its third reading in will not need to be told that when everyone has gone home on Sunday the battle will be far from over. Jobn Corrie can cornt on the most vicłous Tory government this side of the '30s If that So what's next?
at factory gates. discussion as well as signatures.
Teachers should organise to дело о speakers into demand that the newspapers authorities know to be held three days later.
weeks and opposition, the and to the Private considering a conference.
thing simply refuse to anti-abortion MPs -of our rights. to help his Bill, and far too many MPs on the opposition benches are too worried about their Catholic constituents to go into the 'No' lobby. Parliament also happens to be male dominated.
For a start, half a million signatures should be the target for the against Corrie. This has already proved to be a positive way of campaigning. Petitioning at work, and from street stalls leads to The battle agsinst Corrie and his co-thinkers has to take place where people live, work, and learn.
get pro-abortion the Journalists give pro-abortion arguments a fair presentation. Health workers and those campaigning against the cuts should let the that it's abortion and other facilities that are needed, not the axe.
The build up of activity should be for early in the new year, with 5 February already set aside for a mass lobby of Parliament, and a women's assembly For the third reading of the Bill to meet with mass labour movement will need to weigh in against it. So a major task now is to take the campaign into the heart of the movement. 'The Scottish TUC has already called a conference for 1 December to oppose Corrie. The SE Region TUC is Pro-abortionists should aim te ensure that one is held in each region.
more. mass lobby Parlament could be more than that. Strike action on 5 February would ter Thatcher know that the working class will not passively accept any of her policies, no matter which section of that class îs directly affected. The TUC and union executives should be called on to support such action.
And if at the end of the day Corrie's Bill becomes law, then doctors and other health workers should implement it. way Tory and Labour - will find out that in reality we don't depend on them for any the lort MP s anti-abortlon Billi of Community petition Medical Association;
Free Choice: operative Women's Choice should Association;
Students;
Association M PenCe Practitioners Abortion Campaign:
Natonal Association Counseline of Working Women s National Secular Societs:
Horking P'art!:
Women's Aid of Sarisary sersice: Rationalist Press Releure:
Sacialist Educational VPAIeЯ Association:
Committee on Abortion Rights;
C'ampaign Hemen's Liberation DROP it, Corrie! That's the message from the following organisations which are all opposed to Abortion Law Reform Association; Association Health Council England Wales; Birth Control Campaign: Birth Control Trust: British Humanist Association; Brilish Pregnancy Advisory Service; Brook Advisory Service;
Child Poverty Action Group; Christians for Conseryation Sociely; CoGuild; & Overpopulation Group: Doctors for a Woman's Abortion; Family Planning Federation Conservative Haldane Society: Labour Abortion Rights Campaign: Labour Party Conference; London Radical Mulawiyes, Youth Advisory Centre; Marie Stopes House:
Mational National Association of Probation Officers;
of Young & Advisory Services: National Council for Civil Liberties; National Council for One Parent Families; National Joint Committee Women's Organisations: National ALYISOR tOlliet.
Journalists Equality National I nion of seheol students: Valional I'nion of Students: Nalinna federation; Northern Ireland Abortion Law Reform Association; Pregnanc!
Association; Socialist Free TUC: Lister Pregnanc! Advisory Service; Union of Liberal Students: Homen', Abortion & Contraceplion [Merses siddel: Wamen Media; Murement: Women's Iherap! Centre: Young Communist Leagut.