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Red Weekly No. 184, 27 January 1977 · p. 3 of the scan · 973 words

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Benchers Winston NAFF boss John Gouriet goes to court past a picket defending international solidarity action.

the forces branches of the state apparatus so that this confrontation takes place on the most advantageous terms.

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eventual recruitment of volunteers editor of the Ho maintain essenta services man of the Conservative Political wrote her Centre, wrote in Free Nation a few monens ago. It is not controld tion, after all, which would be the ultimate tragedy. The ultimate tragedy would be to have a confrontanion and lose Line laboul distributed by the Grunwick strikers outside a meeting of the London district council of the UPW AITS Tor free last Thursday clearly posed the choice: Our great movement must ask itself: Are we going to stand by and allow the ame neesenaen NAFF to paralyse our movement?' in a Sane consulu CLASSLEICATION has first step. UPW to demand support for their struggle for union recognition.

As Russell Lewis, former chairThe same spirit should imbue movement. A leatle trade JOHN MARSTON build a Ways.

and we apocal The way to defeat NAFF's legal manoeuvring is not to send in your own awvers acer cown wile T ther texts, but to assert through industrial action that one freedom without which the working class would verv soon be crushed: the freedom to organise in defence of its interests and for a society without privilege and exploitation.

The strikes against the Industrial Relations Act showed that it was possible. But the trade union leaders' attachment to the Labour Government means that they are even more unwilling today than they were then to endorse such action. Conferences like that organised by the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions are a great opportunity to seize the initiative out or their names. No effort must be spared to ensure that this is exactly what happens. the latest issue of Women's Voice is as follows: We must aim to campaign as successful as learne Hom wherever mney aooear.. meetings we show publicly that there is opposition to their ideas alternative to think this is the way to build a mass campaign committed to Tignting tor a demand which is tundamental to ine liberation o When the IS presented the National Abortion Campaign with such a perspective they received a clear answer. anti-SUC activity as It perspective for ine campaign. inis entalled bullding a mas. campaign for women's rights rooted in the labour and women's campaign itself national reoresentarves oisaooeare won me scene Colu tea of the NAG. Members or the new •wr were near uo anc he contraring insTribunal decided unbe Now that it is becoming increasingly clear that the Tribunal for Women's Abortion Rights can provide an important focus for the oro-choice movement enabine it to man our now besto dered the most recent threat to women's rights, representative has suddenly re-appeared on the steering commit tee. And, with a suddent switch of policies, even stated that the SWP was preparing evidence for the Tribunal nis re-abbearance was marred oy une announcenent or ye another sectarian venture by the SWP. The meeting was informed hat Women's Voice and the National Organisation of IS Student had announced a demonstration secono redemne or e question for the SWP was Would the National Abortion Cam paign like to support this venture?' In response to the Benyon Bill the National Abortion Campaign has called a variety of carefully planned and realistic initiatives, in unity with other pro-abortion groups actions in localities; a march and lobby followed by a public meeuno in concon. a press conrerence. a picker or me bros sponsore ov su oro-a0orion orcanisations are some ortnest plans for action. The steering committee of the NAC therefore was unanimous on the need for the utmost unity in ouncine a stronG opposition to t flionant claim that 'the more actions. the better was thorough!!

BUILDING ITSELF The SWP is more concerned about building itself than building the pro-choice movement. These are the politics were supposed to be rejected by the transformation of the IS into steering committee, including the Labour Party, Party and the IMG, decided to follow in the footsteps of the SW and called its own actions where would the abortion campaign be today? Building a strong demand on the NHS. and for loon the ably or tae campaon to saw mne broadest dossiole forces into activity around policies which meet the needs of women, and hence the working class It is through people newly drawn into the campaign will develop a politica consciousness capable or challenging the sabotage and inactivity of the present misleaders of the working class.

suoooners. NaG nave a tinder in every oro abortior resulting plague of meetings. meeting do not build an outgoing campaign.' The answer is the Women's Voice campaign if the past year is anything to go by, this alternative to NAC has Test. A Tew antiDrUG minuscule torces an aoout ace position on ine rouna and me substitution of a Women's Voice/ NOISS demonstration for the actions called by NAC and other fail to build a mass abortion movement. It probably won't ever oure ine svr SPUC's. We do that in their success and by opposing them by active neckine ane sickene tel present other arguments to the many youngsters they that this anything? Do they really • Their strategy o only way torward Tol the abortion defeated, however, •the we nationa on 25 Februa thend but the co-ordinated join in these actions. The meeting Benyon Bill. The SWP's CommunIs mass movement for free abortion on women's right to choose, depends organising and taking collective actions tha More wild Meetino about meerinas asou activities attracting pro-choice forces will not only

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movement, not one which simply reacted to SPUC 'wherever they PERSPECTIVE

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