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The Socialist 20 June 2018

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Tory cash boost not enough - save our NHS

No to Trump's climate change chaos

Universal Credit delivers claimant misery

Refugee suicide scandal

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McStrikers and young workers take centre stage at bakers' union 2018 conference

Northern Rail strike reaches 21 days of action to save guards

Miners demand end to pensions robbery

Yorks NHS workers fight outsourcing

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Tamil Solidarity Day: intense, lively, thought-provoking

Grenfell disaster: one year on, still no prosecutions, still no adequate housing..

Organisers' school - an opportunity to educate and discuss

Leeds: Disability campaigners force council to retreat

Wrenford centre: Stop heartless Tory cuts

Knowsley council pushed back on cuts and privatisation

Orgreave - no justice, no peace

Inspirational account of young Marx's political battles

Rousing, funny take on Marxism - from the man himself

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Wrenford centre: Stop heartless Tory cuts

Save the Wrenford Centre, photo by Don't Cut Us Out West Sussex Campaign (Click to enlarge)

Sarah Welch, Portsmouth Socialist Party

Heartless Tory-run West Sussex county council is proposing to close the much-needed Wrenford Centre in Chichester.

Wrenford is a purpose-built centre for people with learning difficulties. My 19-year-old son Matthew uses the centre and it's absolutely fantastic, with amazing facilities.

The council says that the users can instead go to two other day centres - but these are for people with dementia and don't have the same specialist facilities.

Some Wrenford centre users are in their 40s or 50s and have been going to the centre, which opened in 1972, for 20 years or more. Many of them have no relatives to advocate for them.

The council is trying to rush this decision through in July and carry out the closure in April 2019.

We're completely devastated by the plans. But we've started a campaign to stop them.

Support us through our Facebook page at facebook.com/dontcutusout and email protests to amandajupp@westsussex.gov.uk.

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