Why MARYROCHE THE NURSERY at Liverpool Polytechnic is safe from closure -lemporarily, It is finunced by the scudents' union. and if students vote to close it at next month 3 general mecting, they would be kicking oul children, putting four people out of work, and forcing parents with children at the nursery to leave their courses.
The attempt to close the nursery is being led by the student union Dresident a rugby fanatic, who wants to use the money for sports facilities— for himself and his friends.
The Worsen's Group and Socialist Society at the Poly have established a Nursery Defence Group to link up with the campaigns of the National Organisation of Incernational Socialist Students and of Broad Left members. Local communily papers and the Women's Action Group in Liverpool are demanding that Social Services provides the backing to expand thenursery.
Ourdefenoe group has scored its first success by mobilising students to vote to keep the nursery open. This is the kind of local activity chat is necessary If the campaigns of the National Union of Students against cuts. unemployment and discrimination are to be more than paper policies. slanding front: Pat Collins, Kamlesh Gandhi: