Fight Corrie Bill-Oct 28!

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The sole blackspot was once again BL's Cowley car plants, where a conscious decision two weeks ago by Body Plant leaders to sabotage the strikes paved the way for a coordinated campaign by the press and the right wing to whip up a mass anti-strike movement in the nearby Assembly Plant.

Solidarity

But the shortage of components from other firms shut down by the strike have caused even these plants to lay off workers on the two days.

The overwhelming solidarity of engineering workers which is now decimating production throughout the industry will massively strengthen the hand of Confed leaders as they meet! this week with engineering employers and ACAS officials.

But there is! no doubt that the manoeuvres and efforts to split the strength of the As the campaign builds up for the October 28 National TUC demonstration against John Corrie's anti-abortion Bill, it is particularly important that union branches and Labour Parties are mobilised to defend abortion rights.

SPUC, the viciously anti-abortion "Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child" • has estimated that Corrie's Bill would effectively cut legal abortions by 60%: other estimates put the figure as high as 85%. a new, shorter time limit for legal abortion, Corrie's plans would destroy existing charitable abortion clinics that presently account for up to 60% of abortions./ And a rephrasing of the grounds for abortion after this arbitrary time limit would restrict it to cases of proven abnormality of the foetus. Even women who have suffered from German measles will not qualify, since there is a 30% rather than a 100% chance of abnormality.

The result could only be a return to the agony, the exploitation and degradation of illegal back-street abortion, coupled with wholesale suffering by working class women and . unwanted children brought into the world as a result of Corrie's mediaeval bigotry.

Three line whip In mobilising maximum delegations on the October 28 demonstration union branches must also demand that local Labour MPs pledge themselves to vote against the Bill on its third reading and call upon the Party's NEC to demand a three line whip to this effect is imposed by the Parliamentary Further information on the campaign for the October 28 demonstration is available from Campaign Against the Corrie Bill, c/o 374 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8BB. their legitimate political struggle for national liberation are left naked save for a single blanket in damp, dark, unheated cells, with no exercise, no recreation, and no association.

They are allowed only a mattress, a water container, a chamber pot, a blanket and a towel. They. are entitled to visits from relatives only once a month.

Food is inadequate, generally cold, and often adulterated. Medical treatment is withheld from even the severely ill.

Repeated violence

As if all this were not enough, the prisoners are subjected to repeated violence, abuse and physical torture at the hands of prison screws.

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