Ealing First to Vote on Buffer Zones to End 'Harassment and Intimidation' Of

PAGE 3 COME CLEAN ON BLACKLISTING, GMB WARNS METROPOLITAN POLICE AMBITIOUS UNIONS FOR PEACE AND SOCIALISM COULD BE KEY TO LEFT’S REVIVAL CWU LEADER DAVE WARD WRITES: P8 £1 Tuesday April 10 2018 Proudly owned by our readers | Incorporating the Daily Worker | Est 1930 | morningstaronline.co.uk Councils ‘could ban protests outside abortion clinics’ Ealing fi rst to vote on buff er zones to end ‘harassment and intimidation’ of women by Ceren Sagir and to mimic Ealing council’s proposed this isn’t just about providing informa- plans if necessary. tion, however inaccurate that informa- Council documents said: “Those who tion might be. This is about making ANTI-ABORTION protests outside clin- wish to campaign to restrict women’s people feel shame and fear for the ics could be banned by councils across reproductive choices have plenty of decision they’ve made. England following a local authority’s opportunities and locations in which “People come into our consultation proposals to implement a buff er zone. to do so. The area outside a clinic need rooms crying and shaking. Sometimes Ealing Council cabinet will vote this not and should not be one of them.” we have to wait to take their blood evening on whether to ban protests Birmingham City Council discussed a pressure because they’re so anxious outside a Marie Stopes clinic in the similar motion in December, proposed having been through that.” London borough through a public by two female Labour councillors. SisterSupporter’s Anna Veglio-White space protection order (PSPO). The council described demonstra- said the fact there had been no arrests It is one of the options being tions outside a clinic in Edgbaston as was a “huge signifi er” that change was explored on how to prevent “intimi- “street harassment” and “a form of needed as harassment law was clearly dation, harassment and distress” of sexism against women.” not suffi cient. women using the clinic following a In a Portsmouth City Council meet- Counter-protesters from SisterSup- petition signed by 3,500 people. ing, one patient said: “It made an porter have been attending the clinic London Mayor Sadiq Khan has extremely diffi cult decision even more every Saturday since Easter last year backed the motion and said behav- horrendous than it could have been.” to try to create a “human shield” to iour that “seeks to deliberately target Ealing Council’s vote follows a protect the women. women for harassment and intimida- period of heightened anti-abortion Ms Veglio-White said she had seen tion should not be tolerated.” activity over Britain, with the interna- protesters misdirect women away Authorities in Birmingham, Man- tional, religiously based group 40 Days from the clinic so they miss their chester, Portsmouth and the London for Life holding vigils throughout Lent. appointments and afterwards follow boroughs of Lambeth, Richmond and Clinical operations manager John them to their cars and try to jam leaf- Southwark have also discussed action. Hansen Brevetti said that “pavement lets through the windows. Manchester City Council passed counsellors” were outside the clinic She said it was done “under a veil of a motion in January to investigate every day, approaching every client on ‘we care about women’,” which she said reports of intimidation and harass- the way in and out. was a dangerous and false narrative. ment outside a clinic in Fallowfi eld He said: “That’s how we know that Turn to page 2 PAGE 6 ORBAN TARGETS SOROS PAGE 16 CAN LIONESSES RULE? Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 2 Tuesday news morningstaronline April 10 2018 @m_star_online n SYRIA Campaigners call for peace after poison gas attacks by Lamiat Sabin “This escalation of war is highly dangerous. The only solution in Syria is a ceasefire ANTI-WAR campaigners urged on all sides and a political set- the government yesterday not tlement — military interven- to use attacks on civilians tion has already been proved as justification for planning to have failed.” increased military interven- Labour leader Jeremy Cor- tion in Syria. byn called for the United The Stop the War Coali- Nations to investigate the tion (StWC) said it condemned attacks and hold those respon- the bombing of people in the sible for them to account, add- town of Douma, including the ing that peace negotiations alleged use of poison gas, but should be restarted. also Britain, the United States, A Downing Street spokes- France, Russia, Turkey, Israel man said the attack on Douma and Iran for their continued must be investigated urgently involvement in the eight-year- and, if there was clear evi- long Syrian civil war. dence of chemical weapons Prime Minister Theresa May use, the government would is under pressure from Defence look at the “range of options.” Minister Tobias Ellwood and Home Secretary Amber Foreign Secretary Boris John- Rudd refused say whether son to expand current military the government would order operations in Syria after the military action without a par- suspected poison gas attack, liamentary vote. which reportedly killed dozens There is no legal require- of people, including children. ment for the government to Mr Johnson said in February seek parliamentary approval, that Britain should consider but it has become convention military action against the for MPs to be consulted, except government of Syrian Presi- in an emergency. dent Bashar al-Assad if there David Cameron lost a his- was new “incontrovertible” toric Commons vote in 2013 evidence that his forces had over plans for air strikes on used chemical weapons. Syrian government targets. StWC said in a statement: “We However, MPs voted to for such SHORTLISTED: Ania condemn [the action] of our own attacks in 2015 and military Hobson’s painting A Portrait government and its allies … It intervention has continued of two Female Painters is sometimes claimed that the since then. depicts the artist and her bombing by Assad is the result [email protected] sister-in-law, and was of the West’s failure to intervene. announced as one of four “Nothing could be further shortlisted works in the BP from the truth. The West has MORNINGSTAR Portrait Award 2018. The artworks will appear in an been intervening directly and ONLINE.CO.UK exhibition at the National through its proxies throughout Socialist news hub Portrait gallery this summer this war. with the first prize portrait artist awarded £35,000. n FRONT PAGE Councils ‘could ban protests n SCOTLAND outside abortion clinics’ FROM PAGE 1 “The very core will not remove the photos SNP vote through cuts to union posts of this is that they do not and would not listen to my believe in abortion and by complaint. by Conrad Landin union convener posts from ity blocked the motion from cient and more expensive for any means necessary they “If there is any way you the full-time equivalent of passing, putting forward an management. want every single person can remove these people/ 3.4 to just two. amendment backing the lead- Mr Morrison said of the coming through to keep group from standing SCORES of trade unionists Trade unionists believe the ership position. meeting: “Only two SNP that child, no matter what outside, please make it hap- picketed the West Dunbar- move is designed to weaken Clydebank TUC secretary councillors spoke, the rest sat the circumstances,” she pen. This is unacceptable tonshire SNP council yester- their muscle in resisting Tam Morrison told the Star on their hands. They looked added. and wrong.” day, as it voted through cuts future staffing cuts at the that the plan was the brain- grey — they were obviously A log book of entries by The clinic provides to facility time. local authority. child of the council’s paid very uncomfortable, but they patients and staff cata- around 7,000 medical and At an extraordinary full Around 60 council workers officers rather than politi- voted it through.” logues some of the encoun- surgical abortions a year council meeting, council- protested outside the council cians. A council spokesman said: ters and one woman wrote: and medical professionals lors from the Labour and meeting in support of a mor- “It’s the senior officers driv- “Facility time will continue “I felt very traumatised say one in three women Community parties sought atorium. So many workers ing this, but they’re going to to be protected for our trade seeing photos of babies’ will have an abortion in a moratorium on the leader- wanted to attend the meeting make it difficult for workers to union representatives in embryos outside of this their lifetime. ship’s plans. itself that it had to be moved attend disciplinaries,” he said. line with our facility agree- clinic. The lady outside [email protected] Nationalist councillors are to a larger room. He argued this would make ment.” cutting the number of trade But the council’s SNP major- employment relations less effi- [email protected] morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline news Tuesday @m_star_online April 10 2018 3 n EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS Unions demand full details on blacklisting scandal by Marcus Barnett more than 3,200 people work- clean about their part.” ing in construction, which the Scotland Yard has stated GMB describes as the “greatest that police involvement with TRADE unionists called on employment scandal” of the blacklisting will be “fully Scotland Yard yesterday to past 50 years. explored” in the ongoing pub- come clean about the full The union’s national officer lic inquiry into undercover extent of the police role in Justin Bowden demanded that policing. the blacklisting of thousands the full information see the The scandal emerged in of construction workers and light of day.

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