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For Free Abortion on Demand! Opponents of the Right to Abortion Doctors and the Recent Supreme Court Are Mobilising in a Renewed Offensive No 110 October 1989 20p Monthly paper of the Spartacist League Northern Ireland: Labour votes big 'for trool's to stay British army incites death-squad terror '. In recent weeks, "revelations" of the years-long collusion between the forces of the British state and the loyalist paramili­ taries in Northern Ireland have been splashed across the pages of the bour­ geois press. Reactionary Protestant thugs have obtained hundreds of "security" flles which they have now made public in an attempt to terrorise the Catholic com­ munity as a whole. These flles have been passed on from army headquarters, Ul­ ster Defence Regiment (UDR) bases and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUe) sta­ tions implicating the whole of the British "security" forces in the six counties in premeditated, cold-blooded killings of "suspected" republicans. Interviewing a well-known loyalist about the "leaks", the SundQy Correspon­ dent (1 October) quoted him: "It's been going on for 20 years, ever since the British Army arrived here; I don't know why anyone is surprised." True enough. As Magill (October 1989) summarised: and a pub in Co. Down and of council The "news" is that the bourgeois me­ British police in charge of investigating "UDR soldiers have been linked to some offices in Lisburn are also among the dia has now seen fit to publicly acknow­ the British army's crimes in Northern of the most notorious tillings in the hundreds of offences attributed to UDR North including the ShanltiU Butcher and personnel ... very many sectarian murders ledge the body of evidence which has Ireland somehow lacks credibility. Dep­ Miami showband atrocities. The bombing of Catholics are among the many hund­ reached such a point that the Thatcher uty chief constable of Cambridgeshire of a Catholic church, and of an Irish pub reds of cases involving members of the government felt compelled to set up one John Stevens has been assigned to head it in London of a dance haU in Donegal regiment which have reached the courts." of its whitewash "inquiries". Putting the continued on page 8 For free abortion on demand! Opponents of the right to abortion doctors and the recent supreme court are mobilising in a renewed offensive. decision to allow individual states to The new parliamentary session is set to Stop "right-to-life" reaction! pass abortion laws have all been or­ debate an embryo research bill which chestrated in the campaign. In the West will be used as a peg for a reactionary best chance of victory since 1967. should be: an entirely private matter German state of Bavaria the heirs of assault on women's rights. One clause In August, it was announced as well between a woman and her doctor. Hitler are ilrosecuting Dr Horst Theis­ will give estranged husbands or unmar­ that the successful abortion pill, The organised workers movement sen, who has courageously defied reac­ ried fathers a veto over the use of fro­ RU486/mifepristone, would most likely and all fighters for women's and demo­ tionary abortion statutes, and over 500 zen embryos they have fertilised, and not be available in Britain for at least cratic rights must be mobilised against of his patients. This Kmder-Kilche­ on this basis the anti-abortionists are three years. The delay is not due to these attacks. For free abortion on Kirche (children-kitchen-church) witch­ pushing for a similar veto over abor­ scientific/medical doubt, but is the demand! Make RU486 freely available hunt aims to enhance nationalist poison tion. Sixty-plus Tory MPs are proposing result of deadly opposition launched by now/ and especially targets Dr Theissen's an amendment to oblige doctors to tell anti-abortion forces. Taken early, Here as elsewhere the domestic poor and foreign-born patients---op­ parents if contraception .or abortion RU486 acts in much the same way as reflection of the imperialist drive pressed Turkish working women and has been provided to women under an IUD and some contraceptive pills. against the Soviet Union is the ruling­ others. Immigration authorities have sixteen. And a cross-party campaign Later it is safer than a surgical abortion class assault on the living standards of threatened these women with ~eporta­ proposes to use the Embryo Bill to and cheaper. Last year, the makers­ the working people and on elementary tion as well. reduce the provisions of the 1967 Abor­ Roussel-Uclaf-halted marketing the democratic rights. In the US the attacks More than 200,000 women die an­ tion Law from 28 weeks to 18 weeks in drug in France in the face of intimida­ on abortion rights have become a nually worldwide from illegal, unsafe which a pregnancy may be legally ter­ tion and threats against the company spearhead of reaction. A mobilisation abortions in what should be among the minated. The Thatcher government has and its staff (government intervention of terror and intimidation-including safest of operations. As part of the promised time for the debate, which restored it to the market). Anti-abor­ arson and bombings of abortion international offensive against the cannot be filibustered like the previous tion lobbies have effectively halted clinics-is being carried out with the poor and oppressed, those organisat­ private members' bills attacking abor­ distribution in the United States. The blessing of the White House. Funding ions which assist women in having tion rights. The "pro-life" bigots are "right to lifers" especially object to the cuts, bans on the use of public facilities, abortions have had their funds cut by cock-a-hoop at what they see as their pill as it would make abortion what it "parental permission". restrictions on continued on page 11 " ASllum for Kurdish/Tamil refugees! Home Office killed Siho Iyigiiven WNDON-Several hundred demon­ Another Kurdish refugee, Selahattin strated their outrage on 9' October at a Ozberk has received a temporary reprieve protest here called by the Union of Turk­ after a last-minute intervention by the ish Workers against the barbaric treat­ UN High Commission for Refugees. "He ment of Kurdish refugees seeking asylum has until 5pm on Tuesday to find ano­ in Britain. Twenty-six-year-old Siho Iyig­ ther country willing to take him or face liven is dead from severe burns suffered deportation to Turkey" (Gumdian, 13 after he and a fellow Kurdish asylum­ October). Kurdish refugee seeker Dogan Arslan set fire to their cell In their case, Siho Iyigiiven and Dogan Dogan Arslan at Harmondsworth detention centre on 5 Arslan had been served with removal (right) and his October. Dogan Arslan is still fighting for orders for return to Turkey, their applica­ dead comrade his life in Stoke Mandeville hospital. The tions for asylum status denied by the Siho lylgOven, . Home Office is as guilty of Siho Iyig­ Home Secretary. After reviewing their are victims of liven's death as if it had lit the fire which cases he was "minded to refuse". Both murderous Home took his life. men had been subjected to beatings and Office racism. This act of desperation by the two torture in Turkish prisons. The Observer incarcerated Kurdish men reveals starkly (8 October) reported: the criminal treatment being meted out "Mr lyiguven bad been arrested on by the go~ernment. Temporary admission several occasions in Turkey and accused to Britain has been given to some 3700 of association with left-wing groups. In death warrant. When in November 1987 In February 1987, 58 Tamils stripped Kurds fleeing the massive repression of detention he was severely beaten on tbe leaders of the United Communist Party off their clothes at Heathrow Airport in the Turkish regime. Vasa restrictions were bead and systematically on the soles of of Turkey (TBKP) Kutlu and Sargm an attempt to publicise and stop threa­ imposed in June to halt the flow of refu­ his feet. Blows to his jaw bad made it tened deportation back to Lanka. In the difficult for him to cbew. returned to Turkey after much advance gees. Of those who did arrive, hundreds publicity, they were seized the Istanbul case of five of those who were deported, "The other burned man ••• baa also been at have been left to languish in prisons and detained and abused 00 many oc­ airport, handcuffed and blindfolded and the Immigration Appeals Tribunal found detention centres while others have been casions.... He was a target for semi­ taken to the notorious "Deep Investiga­ that they had demonstrated a ''well-foun: summarily deported. Hunger strikes have official rigbt-wing paramilitaries and the tion Laboratory" of the Directorate of ded fear of persecution" in Sri Lanka and broken out in the Portsmouth and Haslar police because bia uncle was the founder Security. They are still being held, as are the decision to deport them wrong. of a banned youth Communist organisa­ detention centres. On 12 October Halil other Turkish leftists who have subse­ New Statesman & Society (29 Septem­ Guzel was led handcuffed on to a plane tion. 1be uncle bas been cm:uted. Mr quently returned to the country. ArsIan bad been in biding since 1987." ber) reported a visit by two journalists to bound for Turkey, deported despite UN To call attention to their plight and Sri Lanka, where they met one of the calls on the Home Office to reconsider For these Kurdish leftists, along with that of their comrades, Siho Iyigiiven an4 Tamils who had been illegally sent back. the "humanitarian aspects" of the case. hundreds of others, return to Turkey is a Dogan Arslan set themselves on fire in Vathanan was in hiding in Colombo and the British holding pen. Another refugee, "had twice been arrested since his return presently released from Harmondsworth to Sri Lanka and had once been seriously and awaiting word of his fate, said: Bolshevism in the colonial beaten up".
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