be preparing to mobilise urgently against any specific restrictive legislation which may come before Parliament in the next The variety of proposals showed that the participants in the Conference had discussed and debated the way forward for the campaign in depth. Unfortunately, the great number of resolutions put to the Conference went beyond the time available within the two onstration against the cuts organised by the Medical Committee Against Private Practice (MCAPP) - an organisation which has adopted a position in support of free abDECISIONS To carry out these decisions, the Conference debated the most democratic way of organising the campaign. It decided to keep the present loosely structured form of organisation, amending this only to deal with problems that had come up like conmunication and taking It was decided, for example, to call regular, well-planned national Two weeks before the NAC Conference, the International Socialists called through the columns of Socialist Worker and Wo men's Voice for people to support the Women's Voice counter-demonstration (against SPUC] on Sunday at 1pm... The NAC Steering Committee discussed this and met two representatives of IS, who apologised for not going through the Steering Committee but insisted on tneir rontto call a cemonstration Initiative Of course the Steering Committee accepted tne rignt or organisations to take their own initiatives; but it stressed that the Conference was the major initiative of the NAC campaign. Furthermore it had not been discussed before, so that even if the Steering Committee had been in favour of a counter-demonstration it would not have had sufficient time to alter the agenda.
A resolution from Brent NAC also called for a counter-demonstration. But this resolution was submitted to the Conference for a vote and its supporters recognised that Conterence was where the decision should be taken NAC overwhelmingly went on rec ord for continuing the important and vital business of the Conference in deciding the way forward. The delegates felt that to stop Conference from doing that and go to the counter-demonstration instead would be a diversion Sustained Furthermore delegates understood that the way to build a demonstration is to win support inside the workers movement, Inis means a sustained cam paign inside the unions and the Labour Parties to win support so that a massive ana representative demonstration Is organised around a particular focus To make a call from the = widerness two short weeks before, and then march off some 200 people - most of whom are 15 members - achieves nothing. When there is an urgent need to build a united movement, the IS walk-out to go to the counter-demonstration can only be described as divisive, cutting right across the main objectives of the proabortion campaign.
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