Step forward in nurseries fight

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Oxford City Nursery Campaign, The day school was chaired who gave a detailed analysis of by Helen Flack on behalf of the the TUC's Report on provisions Leicester Trades Council Bringing out the Report's put before the school a main strengths and weaknesses, she resolution offering guidance to showed how the TUC is hoping struggles now on the agenda in Sinn Fein in conference: offers no lead to working class Dai Titled 'A Woman's Right Io vork ana ine Iveea Tor Acad Ala a Alaad Day Care', a successful day school held by Leicester Trades Council last Saturday drew an audience of 35 public sector workers and nursery campaigners.

They discussed the way forward in the fight against the cuts and the struggle for nursery facilities.

The main speaker was Ann-Marie Sweenev from the for the under-fives. to stifle any efforts to force tham tr finht for auan me to my or even a single cimain one of the Report's recommendations.

She stressed that the immediate starting point must be effective action to defend the skeleton nursery provision that exists now and that is threatened by the cuts.

Drawing on the experience of the defence of the South Oxford nursery class, she pointed to the need for occupation, artinn to finht alneriror Women's Sub-Committee. She forces: on the contrary where such tactics in qur view unnecessarily weaken the struggle and strengthen the forces of reaction, we have an obligation to speak out and to stress our alternative.

The problem for socialists in responding to the recent spate of letter-bombs in Birmingham sums up the bankruptcy of the IRA's established tactic of bombing militarily useless civilian targets in Britain and Ireland.

Still no one has claimed responsibility for these bombs -which have needlessly endangered innocent postal workers.

In many ways these bombs have the hallmarks of a clumsy and reactionary provocation designed to whip up hostility to the IRA.

But the IRA's own record means that we cannot rule out, the possibility that the bombs were actually sent by honest, Leicester area.

The resolution which was unanimously passed declared that:

"This school, mindful of the chronic lack of day care provision in Leicestershire and the country as a whole, adopts the following programme as the basis for a campaign of action to secure for women the right to work.

1) No to the cuts in public spending! Restore and improve all social services, by linking spending on those services to the rate of inflation as assessert by committees of trade p..' ists and housewives.

2) Where cuts r planned they must osed - if necessary by • ration linked with strike action. We also call on the trade unions to defend workplace nurseries where they are threatened.

3)All new nursery classes and schools must be opened.

4) The books of the Local Authorities must be opened to elected committees from the labour movement | including nursery campaigns, etc) to ascer. tain the way public money is used up in crippling interest charges and profiteering by private firms.

5) The Women's Sub-Committee should initiate a local labour movement inquiry, drawing in parents and tenants associations, to investigate the nature of existing facilities and the needs of parents and children ( including after-school and holiday provision)."

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LI. but totally misguided, republican forces.

The very fact that the question "who sent the bombs?" has to be asked indicates the futility of a nationalist strategy that rests on individual terror, and which has historically always failed to grasp the necessity of mobilising the Irish and also the British working class in mass action to force the British out of Ireland and overthrow capitalism, North and South.

We will continue to defend the republican movement against state sponsored army and Loyalist terror and repression: but as Marxists and as conscious defenders of the Irish struggle, we will continue also to oppose dead end nationalism and to fight for the working class programme and orientation that alone can lead to an Irish workers' republic.

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