Socialist Challenge1980Socialist Challenge No. 146, 8 May 1980Books are weapons
Socialist Challenge No. 146, 8 May 1980 · p. 7 of the scan · 128 words
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page 7 of the scan
That's why we have by NUR general Saturday afternoons.
resistance instructed to 'BOOKS are weapons. Don't let the Tories disarm you!' That's the message on a placard outside the central library in Hemel Hempstead, which for the past few weeks has been occupied on Libraries are just one of the targets for the council's cuts, with a cut back in opening hours, the closure of branch libraries, and the reduction of the rener cervte o roe o oe dav a wech The occupation is being used to publicise all the Tory cuts, and to build Hundreds of signatures have been collected during the occupation, and the Dacorum Campaign and the Cuts, which is leading the action, is involving local organisations and broad participation in the campaign.