bortion rights and seeing off most attempts to restrict them even further, NAC's membership is currently on the increase and its conference was a pointer to the determination of thousands of women up and down the country who are prepared to fight for a woman's right to choose.
Judith Arkwright SOCIALIST OUTLOOK no 20, Dec-Jan 1989-90
Gagging Sinn Fein representatives in the broadcasting media is one way of trying to keep the ild on Lessons from the Guildford Four case Lifting the lid on British
Graeme Cookson The significance of the release of the Guildford Four represents a watershed regarding the criminalisation of the Irish and black communities, 20 years of British policy on Ireland, and public confidence in the criminal justice system. The hard work of the relatives of the Four and a few other activists finally forced their innocence clearly to the centre stage and the British state was compelled to concede.
Immediately exposed was the cynical defence of the British state propagated by the likes of Lord Denning. Denning stated of the Birmingham Six, 'If the six men win, it will mean that the police were guilty of perjury. that they were guilty of violence and threats, that the confessions were involuntary and were improperly admitted in evidence and that the convictions were erroneous... This is such an appalling vista that every sensible person in the land would say: it cannot be right that these actions [ie the appeal] go any further.
This was the hurdle the G