IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

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Socialist Action (League for Socialist Action) Vol. 3, No. 2, February 1980 · pp. 8-9 of the scan · 332 words

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erode democratic rights and which seek - by making women scapegoats for the Tory unemploy. ment drive - to split and divide them.

The mass mobilisation on October 28th showed the Tories that there was a united resistence to their plans to ram through unemployment by taking away women's elementary rights. PROTEST?

While a welcome step forward, however, the TUC's support for CAC cannot be allowed to remain at the level of a one-off protest. If the Corrie Bill is to be defeated on Feb 5th or later continued mass action will do The lod The previous anti-abortion Bills - both James White's and Beyon's • were only prevented from becoming law because of the vigorous action NAC launched against them. The only way to stop the Corrie Bill getting on Tory support for it in the House.

Opinion polls have already shown that the majority of people believe abortion should be a woman's right. The only then only way the Tories can be stopped in their tracks is by tapping this vast potential support in mass action.

ALL OUT FEB 5TH the labour movement for a mass turn-out on Feb 5th (when the third reading occurs). Already. This means fighting within STREETS! pledged their support for the lobby and will be mobilising actively for it. Despite the short time left, this call should be carried into all trade union and Labour Party branches.

If the Bill isn't halted on Feb 5th, then the mass opposition mobilised against it must serve as the base for an ongoing campaign until it is removed from the statute books.

ALL OUT ON FEB 5TH! NO RETURN TO THE BACKNO TO CORRIE'S BILL! SEXISM SCIENCE HAI

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February 80 inated by the Pushtun nation). * introducing a mass literacy campaign. * improving the status of women by outlawing child marriages, ionary forces operating mainly from camps in Pakistan's northwest frontier. When the regime in Kabul sought to suppress them. Washington denounced it as

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