southern African region is one dominated by South African finance capital, with the IMF/World Bank policing each of the surrounding economics. Given the extremely frag mented and backward forces of production, there is no hope of genuinely democratic
structures emerging unless based upon the strength of the international working class. The question is, will socialists in the imperialist countries respond to the challenge? SOCIALIST OUTLOOK no 25, June 1990
A015 AB YES BS NOT YES
YE SCOTTISH TRADES UNION CONGRESS Trade unionists will need to mobilise against further attacks on a woman's right to choose The Embryology Bill has continued to be a political battlefield as it makes its stormy way through Parliament. The fortunes of the warring factions have ebbed and flowed over the last six months, but there is no doubt about who has emerged victorious.
It is not the fundamentalist right, who suffered ignominious defeat on abortion and embryo research at the end of April, their belief that life' begins at conception unceremoniously trampled underfoot. Attempts by genetic fascist Lady Saltoun and vociferous bigots Ann Winterton and David Wilshire to blatantly discriminate against certain groups of women, legally label them as unfit mothers and second class citizens and to explicitly prohibit by legislation the creation of 'fatherless" children have been blocked in both the Lords and Commons Committees.
Conversely, this is no unmitigated triumph for the pro-choice forces. Whilst the rout of the anti-abortionists is not to be summarily dismissed, neither must the reality of the situation be ignored. The reduction in the abortion time limit to 24 weeks is a material loss; the consensus around arguments of foetal viability was overwhelming. In this context, the champions of a women's right to choose are increasingly few and far between.
How far the new exceptions to 24 weeks and the removal of the threat of criminal sanctions from doctors who perform late abortions SOCIALIST OUTLOOK no 25, June 1990
FEATURES NO RETUR ABORTION BAC SORTIONS Womens * Advisory Committee