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positions of WUIS voted councillors. manifesto was Fit for a queen? But not for the likes of us once the fares go up THE MANIFESTO of the Labour Greater London Council is an empty shell. As we go to press it appears that the GLC will vote to increase fares and make cuts and redundancies of London Transport, in line with the It will call on the government to change the law, whatever good that may do. And on this sorry and Hall, certain policies councillors will have kept to their principles and voted full knowledge that this would have no chance of getting through.
What a farce, what a fiasco! If The left should have voted — and organised - a massive campaign of resistance in favour of withoul action, pay the increased fares; principles won't save the jobs of lne ous and lude workers, prin and tube routes being slashed. Not when those principles are paper votes when they are not put into action to openly defy the Tories and puppets in the courts and dards Nor was the issue whether or not the Labour group should be once a majority had voted to defy the Law What is really at stake is how the Labour GLC should be leading the campaign in support of its manifesto and Law They have failed to do that.
principle and at pledges Labour made in the manifesto. No-one is concerned with making martyrs out of bankrupt or surcharged But when passed by the of action London Labour Party what did the would-be counciliors think would be the outcome?
That the Tories, so on would allow their to be implemented without opposition? That money would be forthcoming from central government because tne people of London had voted for the the Labour group, especially the left, thought this was the case, then it's naive to say the least. But the lett knew. anc promised, that what was needed to implement its policies was to lead a massive and continuing campaign to take on the Tories, the press and the courts.
Because what is at stake is not the reputation or political purity a dozen or so councillors. w.nar ls al stake is tne living stallof the working people ot London who are facing r tremendous onslaught from vicious government. The working class of London looked to the Labour GLC elected in May to give it a lead where its own union leaders nationally have failed.
A mass campaign against the Lords' ruling fares would have, and still can, meet a tremendous response within the labour movement. Whatever the outcome of the council meeting. all those in the GLO London Partv and the trad unions who oppose the judgement should fight through the organisations of the working class to have a massive campaign The working class has had enough of fine words. the Department Health and Security.
Last March a new form was issued to be filled in by doctors performing abor tions. The new! worded Cormoes not allow for non-medical reasons to be abortion. The implication Is that all those worker seeking abortions anything other than medical are not really entitled them under the 1967 Abortion Act. Afford If this interpretation were to be taken seriously by doctors it would mean refusing abortions to 80 per cent of women seeking them on the NHS.
Any woman seeking an for Could am afford anoiser example that child, or as a young girl still at school, or because her marriage was breaking ир, would be turned down The 1967. Act has never given women the complete right themselves but one liberat choose interpretation of the Act has always acknowledged that such social reasons must be taken inio account.
The intention the changing of this form is now clear. Any doctor who does not fill in the form correctly is liable to prosecution.
Letter The National Abortion Campaign have just disclosed a confidential letter SIr Henry Yellowlees, the Chie medical officer, all those doctors who have continued lo enter social reasons regardless.
It states: 'Lest there be any misunderstanding should point out that non medical factors alone do not provide legal justification for termination on the grounds you have entered on the form It is possible that this action has already affected women seeking abortions. It is vital that the pro abortion lobby acts now to stop Benyon, and White could achieve because demonstrations against them, the civil servants and the government trying achieve without recourse to parlia ment. They must he stopped.
Socialist Challenge urges all its supporters to. * Write to your MP, asking ner/nim doctors be encouraged to grant abortions grounds and that the ang * Table a motion tor you.
Junior reaffirming support for the 1967 Act ( clause embodying the spirit of the *Support the National Abortiol askine vour race union o group to affiliate.
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