The Labour Government has so far been able to get away with its £6 wage limit with the connivance of the so-called leaders' of the working class, the TUC. These bureaucrats, however, haven't limited themselves simply to voting for resolutions supporting the wage-freeze. They have actively sabotaged any struggles that could challenge the Government's anti-working class policies.
On 20 September, hundreds of doctors will be attending a conference in Birmingham to discuss abortion. This meeting has been organised by the British section of an international federation of Doctors who respect human life' A close look at the leaders of this organisation shows that they obviously don't include a woman's life as worthy of respect-all of them are active campaigners against abortion, and are prominent figures in SPUC (Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child).
Speakers include Professor Hugh McClaren, who is responsible for Birmingham having the lowest NHS get a rates rebate on his luxury tion clinic! two foetuses. abortion rate in the country. He so hates abortionists that he managed to home because it was near an aborSPUC - a motley crowd of religious bigots join Tory MPs Norman St John Stevas and Jill Knight. ABOVE: McLaren, arch-priest of fight against women's rights, displays Birmingham NAC is organising a national picket of this conference, and is calling for support from all activists throughout the country who are prepared to join the fight against these reactionary doctors organising against the interests of women.
To add to the insult, it appears that all doctors attending the conference will get their expenses paid by the NHS to the tune of £15 al head-almost enough to set up an out-patient abortion clinic if it wasn't going into the coffers of SPUC. This payment has been authorised by the Postgraduate Medical Federation, whose head quarters in London will be picketed at lunch time on 11 September in protest.
SACKING IMG militants in the NAC proposed these actions, which were unanimously endorsed at the NAC national meeting last Saturday, as a way of bringing home the importance of sacking these doctors, and financing the NHS in the interests of the working class, if we are to win free abortion on demand.
Berry Beaumont