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It will be a massive show of opposition to one of the most mediaeval and savage pieces of legislation to be introduced so far under the Thatcher government.

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But if the Bill is to be actually defeated, and if steps are to be taken towards the necessary extension of existing rich and soaring prices for the working class; of mass unemployment and anti-union laws.

The other are Labour's crypto-Tory anti-working class right wing, the same MPs who time and again oppose independent action by workers to "Consciences"

The supposedly tender "consciences" of such Labour MPs and their professed concern for the "unborn child" do not extend to the slightest interest in the misery of working class women facing unwanted pregnancy or the suffering of unwanted children forced into the world by lack of abortion facilities.

The combination of these reactionary forces in Parliament poses the real threat that the Corrie Bill could become law.

But neither force is invincible. The last Tory government under Heath, with a seemingly impregnable Parliamentary majority, was unable to impose its anti-union laws or its wage contról policy in the face of mass working class resistance, and was driven from office in February 1974.

Öf course then, as now, • the right wing leadership. of the Labour Party and the TUC opposed •such indepeni dent repression in Chile.

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The last Labour conference showed the pressure from the Party's ranks for still further control over its leaders.

Strikes

And throughout the country thousands of men and women workers are now joining strikes, demonstrations and lobbies against the Tories' spending cuts and closures of hospitals, schools and nurseries.

To build a movement from Sunday's demonstration capable of defeating the Corrie Bill it is essential to connect these struggles, and to ensure that the fight for 'abortion rights is placed at the centre of the anti-Tory mobilisation.

Set a date

Every worker must demand that his/her union branch calls on the TUC to set a date for its 'Day of Action' against the cuts, and to include opposition to the Corrie Bill as a major part of that campaign.

Every Labour Party member must press for resolutions attacks on democratic rights, another one of which is the Corrie Bill.

In every way possible the fight to defend and extend abortion rights must be linked up with the fight for mass action capable of forcing this anti-working class Tory government out of office.

Yet such an approach requires a positive principled leadership to be built in the labour movement.

Many left' | MPs-such as. Tony Benn-claim to endorse the fight against Corrie. But they have all refused to fight for the removal of the right wing Callaghan-Healey leadershipwho have explicitly denounced attempts to bring down the Tories through mass action.

In the struggles to come these 'lefts' must be called upon to wage such a fight-or stand exposed as incapable of advancing women's struggle for the most basic right of all-the right to control their own fertility and the working of their own bodies.

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