[Men's Day - March 8 - will be…]
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Men's Day - March 8 - will be marked by many events. One of the most significant will be a picket of the South London Hospital. The fight against the closure of this hospital, the only remaining general hospital in Britain run by women for women, is the most important fight against women's oppression being waged at the moment in this country..
The hospital is being attacked at a time when more and more women are demanding exactly the kind of services it has to offer -sympathetic, non-sexist treatment, treatment which considers women not as hysterical, second-class patients but as people with genuine complaints in need of real treatment and not a tranquilliser and a pat on the head. -It is being attacked becaise of the vicinis mone== tarist policies of the Tories, who put the interests of the rich before the interests of the working class, by a Tory government which only considers women as important as long as they stay at home holding the family together and caring for the ill and old.
Their contempt for the working class, and particularly working class women, is highlighted by the attempts to close the South London hospital.
But the plan is not as easy as they may at first have thought. The hospital is being defended by determined workers and supporters, by women and men united to defend the desperately needed services.
A support committee meets regularly and has planned both the picket for March 8 and a march and rally on March 19.
The hospital needs the support of everyone. Build for the picket and the march. Send donations and messages of support, come to the support committee meetings.
• Picket, March 8, 7am to 10am. Bring banners to S.London Hospital, Clapham Common South Side, London SW 4.
• March and rally. Assemble 1lam at St Benediet's Hospital, Church Lane, London SW17. March to the hospital.
• Donations to South London Hospital Support Group, c/o S.Meredith, 4 Louvaine Rd, London SW11.
• Messages of support to: South London Hospital Action Committee, South London Hospital.
• Support group meetings every Thursday, 7.30, Balham Food and Book Co-op, Balham High Rd, SW12.
Jane Goss