Save the Prince!
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-03-24Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 14 →
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OVER the past five years the Prince of Wales general hospital in Tottenham has been progressively run down. In the last two years five wards have shut with little fight or response from the local labour movement.
In line with the Tory attack on hospitals, the Prince is now earmarked for closure. If this goes ahead, not jobs but also ives will be lost.
With the Royal Northern in Islington closed, and the threatened closure neighbouring Hackney, a massive area in north London will be without effective accident cover.
So support is now being organised to save the Prince. At a recent meeting over 200 local residents, mainly elderly, turned up. The hospital workers themselves have developed an alternative 'people's health plan' for Tottenham.
A major demonstration is planned for April 6 to bring the campaign into the streets of Tottenham.
However, such pressure, while necessary, will not by itself stop the closure. The need is to begin organising for occupation, and to link up with similar struggles in Hackney.
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