ID THE CORRIE BILL FIGHT Tion in November, last year. This before the law - but, in practice, this is just not true.
In this society, it is not men who have to face the burden of rearing children.
That responsibility falls entirely on the shoulders of women who are thereby faced, when a child is born, with the agonising conflict of whether to pursue her career or stav home and look after the child.
The onlv wav women can escape from this dilemma is by the state taking over the res ponsibilities of child-care, thus releasing women to participate freely in society alongside men.
Thatcher might be the first women Prime Minister but the present Tory policies, far from solving the process, will only worsen it. Thousands of work.
ina mothers will be torced out lany dependent on tner nus For thousands more single-parent families, it will mean living on a pittance doled out by the state.
fight. None of the Labour MPs who spoke at the CAC rallies have yet pledged themselves to make abortion rights a key part of Labour Party policy. That will only develop by continuing and fighting for its aims in the local Labour It is not just a question, however. ormoro mare avoron a key plank in Labour Party policy. It is also a question of fighting to ensure that the next Labour government - when it is campaign which has the potential ot drawing wide layers of women into action.
While fighting around a specific aim, such a campaign could also become part of the general fight-back developing against the Tory cuts. could raise the issue in the unions and Labour Party and call on Labour-controllec councils to oppose all cuts Ibar culary those which raude rursery piov.s.u.s:
Such a campaign 1. taker into and fought for in the labour movement, could play a serious role in orotectiu le rights of women and children.
elected - implements it.
Labour MPs have to be told in no uncertain manner that abortion rights cannot be left up to individual 'consciences'. It is a class question on wnien tney are expected to abide by the democratic will of the majority of the labour movement. And the mass action by the TUC on November 16th, last year, is a clear indication of where the labour movement stands on the issue!