Already the Minority Movements amongst miners and engineers had registered significant success. The Back to the Unions' campaign launched by the CP in the wake of Black Friday had been This culminated in January 1924 with the victory of Arthur Cook in the electons tor miners secretary wen arch right-winger Frank Hodges resigned to oin une cabour caoinet ing 200.000 workers gathered in London Along with basic demands tor a t4 a week al Programme of Action called for workshop and factory committees, industrial unionism, and workers control over industry. Aiso included was the demand for a stronger TUC General Council with contror over the Labour rarty demands for the formation of pit and factory committees and the struggle to turn trades councils into Councils of Action with direct representation from the factories and delegates to the TUC.
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Red Weekly 29 April 1976 the National Abortion Campaign was successful in mobilising the committed. However NAC failed to realise the potential shown last 21 June. The majo problem is our attitude towards Parliament. in my oomnion. me ww and al to come to grips with this question.
fusion among our forces. The MPs on confuse things even further by their unstanding of the next stage of the fight, which would take place within the SC without an actual Bill. This confusion levels.
no fight in or out of Parliament to expose and block une continuance or tae SC.
one of all was their resignation, which left the abortion issue in Parliament in the hands of the anti-abortionists.
State. It defends its authority in the eyes of the masses by being sensitive to une eoo and row or une class struccle Democratic retorms are won trom car liament through mass action for fear of it on the streets.
abortion issue or whose political future can be furthered through it must be structured into the mass movement in order to use their support in building it. Our job, then, is to demand that the The 3 April demonstration organised by the left organisations who participate in the NAc steering committee nave talled The tall or the vinite Bill led to con the Select Committee (SC) were able to animous recommendation that the SC be reconvened. This blocked a clear underled to a downturn of the campaian at all The six MPs who later resigned led They made opportunist concessions LIONE all the way along the line and the biggest Parliament is the executive of the oT Whicn the abortion movement is part.
Those MPs who identify with the ANTONIA GORTON (member of NAC Steering Committee) writes: phasie). What has happened to the id MPs work in the interests of the movement and with their help build such a powerful movement that it transcends the limits that they may wish to put on It. This process is also part of the way to block the danger of the mass struggle being demobilised in favour of a solelv parliamentarist orientation with arer lance on loopies and letter writing.
NAC should have made it impossible Tor the Mrs to eave inese demander that they make minority reports; that they tell the country what the SC was planning. Failing to convince them to stay, we should have immediately deтапава - now wat you ve waiked out what are vou going to do?' We have let the MPs walk away from the tight within rarliament. ney retain a 'pro-abortion' reputation without having any plans for holding back the flood of reactionary legislation that is projected by Abse and co. How would the IMG go about correcting this situa The IMG initiative in calling for a Tribunal is correct. A Tribunal based on the organisations of the labour movement, women and students will be a vital ingredient in building the mass movement. But when Dodie Weppler writes in the Red Weekly centre-spread on 1 April that 'we should organise for an "alternative" Tribunal to the Select Committee!, this is to drop into that brand of libertarian politics which refuses to take on the fight where it is.
This outlook combines in the same do? articie win. nis Isnt lust a quesuon of facilities - it's also a question of an ideological fight we have to wage against the reactionary gynaecologists' (my em ocical Tient we nave wi rarliament.
Is the IMG for the political dissoluTION OT NAL Into tne campaion acainsi NHS cuts and for facilities? The fight Tor Abortion on Demand is Tirstly and