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Occupation but active support is needed, particu- in jobs, hospitals, wages and the worst unemupporting strike action if this occupation against ployment since the 1930s. Not only have the Tory attack on women, children, one parent women had to face the organised threat Families, and the necessary and vital service of day from the •Tory government and the othsend financial donations and messages of in bringings questiens which affect women _ane Day Nursery, 56, Nightingale Lane, London to the fore.

On Friday 6 March parents occupied Nightingde Lane Day Nursery in the London Borough of Wandsworth.

A demiciistration was planned tor 4 p.m. and "the Matron moved the children from the Nursery i at-lunchtime. In the rush and panic a window was left open and parents were able to gain entrance legally and start their occupation.

The decision of Wandsworth Social Services Committee to close the Day Nursery was made in November: 1979. Parents were advised by letter of the decision the reason for closing, they were weeks later. tiey nvere told, was that the building that is leased by the Council, was no longer suitable for a Day Nursery.

Parents were therefore amazed and perplexed to find that two applications for the lease (which individuals planning to run--would you believe -a the Council has renewed for 3 years) were from private day nursery.

The parents occupied Nightingale Lane Nursery the night before the Social Services Meeting as a token gesture but that didn't deter them in their closure plan.

Since November the nursery, which has fulf facilities for 56 chitdren and had an attendance of 44 children before the decision, has been deliberately run down to leave on the day of the losure only four children.

The parents plan long as possible and and asked parents children alrina ta thr orovision others in the past.

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To continue the occupatic on as have leafletted the locat and chitdminders sring area wu air druny du ine nursery to use the tacilitie IS.

The trade unions, Labour Party and Tr ades Councit in Wandsworth have given support to • the iupport to: Sarah Rackham, c/o Nightingale Women demonstrate in Petrograd, 1917.

WHY WO Woman Worker is a revolutionary Iworking class newspaper which takes up the struggles of women against their economic and political exploitation at work and at home, and fights for these problems to be taken up as part of the struggle to build the international revolutionary party to take the whole working class forward to a planned socialist society.

Women have a necessary role to play in the struggle against capitalism. Socialism will never come about without the involvement of 50% of the population.

The past decade has seen the limited democratic gains of the Equal Pay and the Car Miamiminatin. 4 aks AL on wisernmalon Acis Inreatened by cuts emplovers but also within their own ranks

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ra kollontai Woman Worker, March 19 1980