AWAITH
supporters of NAC picketed the DHss headquarters in London and ottices all over the country on monday to protest against the statement on abortion expected from Barbara Castle in Parliament this week. It is almost certain that the DHSS will approve the recommendations of the recent Select Committee report, making it harder for many women to obtain abortions in the private sector while doing nothing to improve availability on the NHS. This paves the way for further attacks on women's abortion rights, which Wilson has made it clear would not be opposed by the Labour Government. It is thus even more urgent for activists at the NAC Conference to thrash out a programme of action to fight these attacks in the coming months, and win free abortion on demand
Trade union officials and Convention politicians over here have lately been voicing increasingly loudJOHN MAGEE reports from Belfast and redundancies, shelving of recruitment plans, and wholesale cutbacks in expenditure. But these increasing economic red weekly 16 october 1975