capacity THE controlling Labour group on Lambeth coun cil, has reversed its position on the cuts. By 29 votes to nine, councillors decided on Friday to restore £2m expenditure that the council had previously axed.
The reversal came after local Labour Party conference had expressed its opposition to any cuts or rates increase. Counci leader Ted Knight said he would change his position Friday's Labour group meeting was lobbied by some two hundred anti-cuts Announcing a march November, Kaight said: • Wie have decided to take on stand now against th governesent's lisastrons solicies, rather than wait for situation leterioraie further.
Oxford schools and nursery CHASES the whole county - but now there will be none at all.
The cuts will mean the loss of 100 jobs in addition to the suffering caused to both parents and children.
Annie Pile is an Oxford mother who will be affected by these cuts, she also Socialist Challenge supporter.
I'm and I have been working full-time. Because inadequate nursery provision in Oxford I have had to rely on a childminder.
*I have a low income, so it was hard to meet childminding expenses with no tax relief But since September the older child has been able to attend nursery school all day and the younger child can go in the afternoons.
*Having my children at nursery school has relieved me of the feeling of guilt that working parents often have as I know they have the stimulation of playing children plus play facilities.
"The cuts in Oxford are planned. taken up the issue 'rising fives:
'Now all the nurseries are going to be cut, bul rising fives will be allowed to start school a term and school meals will not be touched.
all our services. Nursery schools ¡are essential too.
*The fact that the cuts in jobs will mainly affect women - and they are not strongly organised in trade unions, family responsibilities often mean they cannot make it to union meetings.
'As parents organising a fight-back against these cuts the fives themselves ¡don't have a voice.' A meeting was held in Oxford Tuesday U11 September which was attended by UTCH parents, teachers and trade unionists who opposed the lobby of the LIL.
Education Committee and demonstration dic A Benn joins cuts demo this.
Ted Knight, Labour leader of Lambeth council. demonstrators about the financial pressures that had been brought to bear by the IMF, the City, and the like. He didn't say what a Labour government could do about Next to him were Labour MPs Norman Atkinson and Reg Race, and on the right, The loudest applause was for Val Graham [inset], vice president of Haringey teachers' association. 'We teachers will not be making any distinction between those who wield the axe with enthusiasm and those who wield it reluctantly,' she said. Hackney WIDESPREAD strikes boosted a day of mass action against health and education cuts in Hackney last Thursday. More than 1,000 people lobbied meeting of the City and East London Area Health Authority after an earlier piCKel of inner London Education Authority offices to protest at plans for school closures Among those who took strike action were workers in all the local hospitals, civil servants in the DASS and Department of Employment, and the entire Hackney council manual department. Support from workers was shown through action at British Oxygen and a delegation on the demonstration from Metal Box.
Despite this action the ятеа health authority voted to implement f3.5m worth of cuts - including the crosure of over general, surgical and gynaecological beds at St Leonard's hospital. Direct action to prevent these cuts must now be the focus of resistance.