Security forces caught red handed! ELECTION FRAUD! 'We'll be there! -McGahey

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Box 5277, London WC1V 6XX. Printed by Anvil Printers Ltd., London. not necessarily represent the views of the Workers Socialist League. Corrie's anti-abortion bill, battling against the odds, appear to have struck a further blow at Tory plans to attack existing abortion rights, Though the Commons voted by a large majority last Friday to reduce the upper time limit for abortions from 28 weeks to 24, this fell far short of Corrie's initial proposal of 20 weeks and his "compromise" offer of 22 weeks.

Only a tiny percentage of abortions take place between 24 and 28 weeks. And even Corre pointed out that there would now havé to be exceptional cases allowed above the upper limit.

In any event it now appears that the strength of feeling mobilised against the Billwhich, if carried, would cut the number of legal abortions by up to two-thirds and lead to a massive increase in backstreet out!

abortions and unwanted pregnancies-has created conditions for its defeat.

The Bill is opposed by a clear majority of all adults, and by 80% of women of child-bearing age.

Its opponents have moved extensive amendments and correctly insisted on a full debate on every aspect of the Bill: this has plainly not only swung certain: MPs against Corrie but also raised the pros pect of the Bill's Third Reading being talked out through lack of time-in which case the new 24 week limit, too, would fall, and the existing 190 ACI would remain, in force.

• It is vital that the labour movement maintains the pressure-through resolutions, pickets and lobbies-to ensure that this vicious piece of legislation is totally destroyed, and that the fight is taken up by trade union and Labour leades. for an end to all legal restrictions and NHS cuts which prevent the provision of free abortion on demand.

Some 4,000 steelworkers joined other trade unionists on a vigorous demonstration through Motherwell last Saturday, to a rally in the Civic Centre addressed by Bill Sirs and Mick McGahey.

Delegations included ISTC strikers from Yorkshire and a contingent of Welsh miners, and there were enthusiastic chants of"20%!" and "Thatcher Out!"

But there was no call from Communist Party member McGahey for action to bring down the Tory governmentwhich was scarcely mentioned in his tub-thumping speech.

Promising pickets to aid the steelworkers fight he drew a warm response when he pledged:

"Make the request: we'll there!» Bill Sirs focussed more on the role of the Tories, angrily declaring that the ISTC had been picked out, as a "soft touch"-tactfully not explaining how the Tories had come to make such an assessment Yet he did refer to the sacrifice of 167,000 jobs in the industry over the last ten years.

«We have given jobs", he added.

The Tories are trying to grind the trade union movement into the dust, ' he warned. The steelworkers are now in the forefront of the struggle against the Tory government.

It is the fact that workers have taken on this struggle despite the years of grovelling and collaboration put in by Sirs and his fellow ISTC officials that now so alarms the bureaucracy in the steel unions and the wider labour movement.

PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report McGahey • This would also explain many other alleged '"ceasefire violations" attributed by the imperialists and the press to Mugabe's ZANU(PF) forces:

Reports of farge numbers of guerrillas, particularly those of ZANU(PF), remaining outside major role in disorienting and politically disarming his supporters.

They are now suffering the consequences-repression.

The elctions increasingly become more obviously what Socialist Press said from the beginning-a dangerous fraud.

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