Threat to nursery occupation
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As we go to press, have made the first moves towards evicting the trade unionists and parents occupying the prevent its closure.
• notice from the Tory Council was delivered to the ruser on Monday, declaring I the nursery was 'unLE=- ends an e occupied, and Exes that the County Secreta "ould be grateful" if accupants would quit is ariding no later than +- iris Wednesday.
Further action
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The County Council action comes at a time when support for the occupation of the South Oxford Nursery Class is still pouring in from trade union branches, trades councils and Labour Party bodies as well as from individuals.
Determined
A determined and enthusiastic fight against the cuts in education spending such as this well deserves the interest and support it is enjoying.
This interest has now taken on international significance, with a visit from 20 Danish school students this week, who took the children on a trip up the River Thames on their barges and help from a Japanese woman representing a similar nursery occupation in Japan.
Coalition
The occupation underlines the determination that exists in the working class to defeat Workers Socialist League, 31, Dart (TIll (TIll Donintarad st tha CDA re an the Lib-Lab coalition ment's spending cuts.
There is clearly support for a policy of fighting to defend social services by a sliding scale of spending, rising point for point with inflation, as assessed by committees of trade unionists and housewives.
Similar committees must also seek to scrutinise all aspects of local government spending, to discover who benefits from this spending while the working class has its essential services slashed, and ensure that these firms are nationalised, without compensation, under workers' management.
O'FISHALL
Because of the importance of the article on the Garners' conference, O'Fishall has been held over for one week.
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