20 years of the '67 Act...
THOUGH THE courts ruled against the legal action brought to prevent a young woman terminating her pregnancy, anti-abortion rights organisations were not entirely downhearted. ding the case, they said, had brought to the fore the centrepiece of their present campaign — the use of an obscure law, the Infant Life Preservation Act of 1929 to outlaw abortions.
Just days before the The publicity surrounUS litigation by the 'father'.
Rulings in these cases will invitably be accompane Banner hea dines banner headlines LUC women to chose.
The campaign to reduce legal time-limits has already had its pay-off THE NEWLY published Tory anti-union proposals literally they would: • Legally indemnify and protect strike-breakers • Empower individual union members to prevent ulul. calling industrial action without a ballot, • Effectively end the closed shop outlaw industrial action to enforce • Prevent unions protecting their funds from sequestration, • Eliminate workplace baos nerenae mien with postal balloting for Previous trade legislation enacted by the A IT IS AT times like the present that our newspaper is most valued -when it is necessary to get out the truth about what is happening.
The latest Tory green paper on trade unions profurther altll drastic restrictions on working people's righ to organise protect LIcIsCIVes.
leaders like Brenda Dean have helped sabotage the struggle John Golding worked to defus‹ the NCU's struggle. Neil Kinnock's line led Labour to disaster at Greenwich -and is preparing defeat at the general elecand 1984 have all been justified on the pretence ing Under veil of 'returning unions to their members' the government has taken significant steps to legally curb effective action striking especially hard at the movement's ability to take solidarity action, weakening the closed shop, imposing prestrike ballots and opening up the unions to extremely court penalties.
The new green paper lifts veil of altogether the supposedly "pro.
SUTCD explains that this is all due to extremists! It is left wing always the logic of capitalism to blame those who have had ICVCl power, and not those who do have it.
A paper which tells the situation facing the workine class in this country is at a premium The attacks at home are part of the broader attacks that are taking place against the working class their allies internationally in South Africa, in Central ,America, in the Middle TUBLISHING CHAPEL
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