badges and posters for distribution in the colleges as the new academic year begins.
The 'SAC' badge will carry the slogan 'Free Abortion on Demand' as this has been the policy of the union for a number of years. Any Here cr booking should write to *Students London WCI.
PRESTON Trades Council has taken advantage of the specially produced Trade campaign is strong in speakers the college speaker Family Planning Clinic. Against Endsleigh St, Greenwich union support for the Scotland meeting include women from Glasgow Trades Council and the Scottish TUC, as well as Dr Elizabeth Wilson from the Glasgow Support •IT IS ALMOST impossible for woman in the West Midlands to get an free abortion on the NHS simply because the most senior consultant in the area happens to be an anti-abortionist, big national event will be the mass lobby of the House of Commons on Tuesday S February - three days before the third reading.
A mass lobby means beginning the campaign now in your trade union for for the lobby and strike action on the day. Socialist Challenge supporters in the health unions wil he urging their executives to initiate the call for strike action as the struggle for abortion facilities for should be seen as part of the fight to stop the rundown of the NHS and its 'hiving off' to private enterprises. on the walls.
and they WOMEN workers at a council depot in the Midlands got fed taken down. up with the nude pictures that male workers kept plastering They complained to their union, the TGWU, saying that the pictures degraded women wanted. them taken down. Surprise; surprise, the Spurred on by this victory, the women went on to tackle the bosses by threatening that they removed their insulting portraits of women, 1o0, the whole depot would be covered with male nudes!
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Socialist Challenge 4 October 1979 Page 11
A SERIES of letters from the Iranian Ministry of National Guidance have been appearing recently, Signed by Majid Rahma, the Director of the Foreign Department, the themselves to correcting aspects of the Guardian's coverage of events in Iran.
For example, they Khomeini has ever threatened the Kurds. "The Kurds are Moslem and committed to Islam. There is no war between Moslem and Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian people have nothing Kurdish brothers. 'They are equal to other ramian eiizen. differentiate between Kurds members of the Kurdestan Press address various deny that Moslem against their And and Demoof village, and seven hand lowest levels of ine use tunities existent. discriminated development cent The and policy 'de-Arabisation'. Large numbers of Persians were brought into the area, and Arabs were pushed down into the socicly. Iney were forced to adopt Persian names and of Arabic was •severely curtailed, making educational opporfor Arabs almost nonToday, more than 50 per cent of Khuzestan but only 5 per cent of university students and only 1 per cent of university teachers are Arabs Casual work Other nationalities have been against through the conscious underdevelopment of those regions which they occupy. The almost complete absence of industrial