-ABORTION-THE FIGHT GOES ON Photo: I Mclntosh (IFL)
Howe's tax concessions, 1980 will be a pretty bleak year for the young, the old, the sick - and working people generally - who will be expected to foot the bill.
JOBS These savage inroads into the welfare state will not only mean, however, longer hospital and housing queues stretching into the erode the 1967 Act - will not just, however, take women's abortion rights back to the stone age. It will also be used to cut into women's rights in all those areas which depend on fertility control.
Employment is one example. The Tories will doubtless use the climate whipped up by the Act to push ahead with their plans for mass unemployment. Seeking to pit men against women in the scramble for jobs that will open up, they will throw thousands of women out of the workforce into the home (where they "belong' bringing up children.
Other examples will follow. The Bill will also be used to sector have to be "self-financing". What this means is that local government employees will be A taste of what is to come can already be seen in Thatcher's decision to freeze all recruitment into the Civil Service.
REACTION Thatcher's callous attack has, of course, sparked off vigorous to the TUC which has condemned They are no doubt aware of the groundswell of opinion mounting and campaigns up and down the country to prevent the cuts from being steamrollered through.
10,000 strong demonstration against the cuts in education last "justify' cutting back on women's equal rights to pay and promotion since - it will be argued - a woman is prey to 'unplanned pregnancies' and therefore more unreliable than a man.
TUC ACTION for the mass demonstration last October - which mobilised over Corrie is not just of concern to women - who were, and are, in the front line.
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