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send to socialist ( hallenge. 328 9 ocialist Challenge 28 June 1979 Page 2 Weighted ant aborion the pro-abortion of its convictions to calling The House of Commons is now useful decisively weighted in favour of the forces.
Labour back-benchers who lost their seats at Easter were the backbone of element Furthermore, the Labour government, while never having the courage the whip against them outside schools, in shopping precincts.
branches, trade councils etc.
invites a speaker and gives a donation. anti-abortion Bills, was never very happy about openly supporting such reactionary measures.
The Tory government has no such scruples. Indeed the Bill gives them a opportunity to offer electors an ideologically powerful piece of law.
It will rally their forces for the other major attacks on . the working class that will follow close upon this attack on abortion.
The only way the Bill can be defended is by masses of women and men coming together in united action to smash it. 1. Join your local NAC group. If there isn't one, call a meeting of women's groups, trade unionists, students to discuss how to fight the 2. Publicise the attacks. Get leaflets from the NAC office and use meetings. Offer speakers to trade union branches, Labour Party 3. Picket your MP — demand they vote against the Bill. 4. Put resolutions through your trades union branch or trades council. Demand that the TUC organise a demonstration against the Bill; that your trade union branch/trades council affiliates to NAC, 5. Remember the second reading is on 13 July. Organise local activity. Get maximum publicity for your opposition to the Bill. 6. In London or nearby on 13 July, come to NAC's meeting, 3pm, Central Hall, Westminster, and rally, 6.30pm, Caxton Hall, St Contact NAC on 01-278 0153 at 374 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1.
That means that the trade union movement has to be prepared to take up the fight alongside the women's JITCHCLI and campaigns. the But the trade union movement does not have a very good record on fighting understanding that abortion is a class issue has not been absorbed into the working class and its organisations.
At the recent Local Government Officers union conference a motion sponsored by union movement.
Statements that the firmly where they women have the has taken the abortion towards fertility.
rights. The the right and a livelihood.
The ten branches
HOME NEV By Oliver New and Anwar Hussein OVER THE past three weeks there has been an alarming deportations, and one racist murder. There are now fears that the next step will be 'voluntary repatriation'. Just study the following developments: • Tuesday June:
Mazumdar, a 39-year-old worker at the Merryweathers engineering firm, in South London, was beaten to death on: Frances Street, Only one of the four youths allegedly involved, Archer, 18, has been charged with murder. He is in Brixton prison.
Mazumdar, had been working at Merryweathers for five years. He was walking home alone when he Was beaten to death. In the same area a West Indian was attacked some nine months ago. A Bangladeshi worker has stopped working on the night shift because he is scared.
Mazumdar's killing has the head of R Division, to admit: and my senior officers are well aware that racist attacks are possible.' And this in an area where there are dozens of documented cases blacks and where Asian shops regularly smashed.
A local action committee has been set up, and its first public meeting is scheduled for 7 July temple in Woolwich at 7pm.
Thursday 14 June: Shiraz Mitha growth of nothing left.
Abdul and the Palak • Wednesday Woolwich, at white сіпетя in Fred policeman walks displaying West Bengal, initials 'F'.
Unknown attacked and take down Southall Action looking into the Race Relations Act. finally of assaut on are deportation.
Britain in 1975 at the Sikh passed her mental hospital. social security people. If only the SO razment knew how much we need 'I feel dead to the world. There is Gulbanu broken and ill. They will not live long, a fact that will bring joy to the racists Office who cold-bloodedly 'execute the law."
June: Blair Peach's body is lying in the Dominion Southall. Outside to wall 'Who killed Blair Peach?' poster and inscribes on it the him he is being watched by two Asian women. They This number. The Committee the possibility of prosecuting this police officer under • S, a Kenyan Asian nurse, faces She came to to do psychiatric nursing at ot Albans hospital. She hospital finals November and was told that if she passed the state finals as a registered (which she did in January) she would get a job at the But she was rejected because she had taken some time off when she was suffering from the after-effects of the pill. "Good heavens, we didn't think that, was just oile did te rem alks was just one of the remarks passed.
Now, without a job, she faces deportation. Her parents are here, but at 25 she cannot count as a dependent. THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1870 in Anger after Asian dies fear ABDUL and Gulbanu Mitha: "The Home Office has ruined us.' in Britain. Their childrem are British citizens and are at a local primary school. However, as they can't stay without their parents they will have to leave as well. • An all-time record was established last month. The Guardian revealed Monday that children were Harmondsworth pending deportation.
Shezad, 6, Naheed, 5, and Sabina, 21 months.
FRI 13th JULY DONE?
campaign (Campaign Pakistani being held •Make detention Their ages? WHAT CAN AND SHOULD BE ANL activists in the locatities should take up deportation cases and wage a around them.
Against Immigration Laws) is organising a national day ol action against the laws which mal black people's lives a living hell On Saturday 7 July, there will be a national picket of prisons where immigration law prisoners are being held. For further details ring Bol Swart on 01-769 1160. papers. Send in all clippines relate sure read your to deportations and immigration laws to Socialist Challenge so that we cas help spread the information.
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