Nursery Victory!

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cells with their urine and faces. They rubbed their faeces on the wall as this is the only means of allowing it to dry. It also keeps the floor, where their food and bedding is placed, as clean as possible, given the barbaric conditions imposed by the prison regime.!

On December 1 three women prisoners joined seven male prisoners then on hunger strike in the H Blocks to demand political status. fearing an escalation in working class action the British government was forced to back down.

On December 17 they did a deal with the prisoners, as a result of which the hunger strike was called off. When the demonstrations and strikes began to subside Thatcher's bosses' government felt safe enough to tear up their side of the agreement. This has resulted in the new hunger strike. rights of workers in Britain.

British workers have a duty to support the struggle of their class brothers and sisters in Ireland against the British occupation of their country.

Any attempt to raise the issue of Ireland in the British working class will be met with the immediate opposition from leaders of the Labour Party and the trade unions. They have, for decades, lined themselves up with The campaign to keep the Fosse Road Nursery in Leicester from closing down has scored an important victory.

At its meeting on January 21 the Leicestershire. County Council decided to drop plans to close the nursery when the new Family Centre opens in the area and instead to extend the catchment area to allow children from the nearby Braunstone Estate to use the nursery:

The news came in a letter to Nursery Campaign Secretary Jane Atkin from the new Director of Social Services and arrived by hand the day before an important nursery meeting was to take place.

Although the letter is evasive on the question of maintaining the number of places, this will nevertheless mean an extension of full-time facilities in this particular area of Leicester.

However, the campaign is now involved on the other side of the city in Highfields, where a nursery is scheduled to close at the end of March. The nursery, purpose-built and only 10 years old, will close because of the withdrawal of urban aid grant. Parents have already lobbied the director's visit to the nursery and a council meeting and are to hold a public meeting.

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