drawn to this by a close workmate who was flicking through the paper for was angry and offended by it He said: to be slur?' When 1 started ummin aru anille Suul paper and said well if that's an example of your paper, the rest must be a load of lies and bias.
Now we did get talking and it turned out that both Catholic background and personally opposed to abortion but not because he's toeing the 'religious party line' And he was prepared to listen to our point of view about abortion being a choice for women, not MPs, doctors or the church.
I explained too that our has always defended the Catholic minority In tne nort ol regardless of disagreements of faith or conviction. But he con. vinced me of the way in wilici vour caoul aupears a slur and a cheap substitute for argument.
We must not talk to the politically converted, nor forget that we stand for the maximum collective and freedom in the society we wish to build on the ruins of this violent, destruc tive, unequal and sexist That includes the freedom of worship and the freedom to disagree, man or woman, abortion - though not the freedom to impose that view on other people Can I suggest from this articles the paper could run?
1. Our view on socialist democracy, especially regards religion 2. A Marxist explanation of the roots of and think likely religion would wither away along with the state;
3. The feminist socialist about the 'unborn';
4. More articles like for Socialism' directed at the general reader - and not so tucked away •• Burnley.
IN 1976 Donaldo Alvarez