be a mere £1.7 million a year. Yet Barbara Castle is curNAC groups.
building it Photo: ANN MULLEN TRIBUNAL We should organise for an 'alternative' Tribunal to the Select Committee. Ine select committee die d rump of staunch anti-abortionists sitting in smoke-filled rooms in the House of Commons with the fate of hundreds of thousands of women in The Tribunal will be very different. It will be an opportunity to hear evidence collected over the next six months and to map out plans for taking the campaign forward on the basis of the experience in collecting it. We should try to make sure that building actions for it involves people way beyond just those in the local But clearly NAC groups will have to take the lead in A band of more than a thousand anti-ab noisy reception at Newcastle Civic Centr ing the fore-court by a 150-strong picket ed by Tyneside Abortion Campaign (TA organisations and other militants.
• The Lord Mayor la Labour councHlo ceive a petition from the anti-abortionist ing mother, every child a wanted child', not ine state Later the silent anti-abortionists were who cave our leaners aone te demo ro case for 'Free abortion on demand - a The NAC Steering Committee has already discussed setting up a nation al organising committee for the Tribunal. It should get representatives from as many individuals and organisations as possible. Such bod