Questions and answers on the cuts
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Q. The Lib/Tory coalition says that the government just has to make social cuts, in the same way as anyone who has "maxed out" their credit cards needs to cut back. Is that true?
Anti-cuts, public services
88% of cuts to come, says thinktank
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“By [April] 2012, only 12% of the planned cuts to welfare spending and only 12% of the planned cuts to spending on public services (comprising 34% of the cuts to investment spending and just 6% of the cuts to non-investment spending) are forecast to have been implemented...”
Barnet Unison strike over privatisation
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Around 400 Barnet Unison members will take their fourth day of strike action on Thursday 9 February.
Organise This! - a day of workshops on workplace organising as part of the struggle against austerity
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Date:
11 February, 2012 - 10:30 - 16:00
Location:
Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, London E2
Description:
What is the impact of withdrawing your labour as an educator, health worker, refuse collector, librarian or childcare worker; when the people most immediately affected are service users?
What strategies can we develop to make a strike powerful in sectors where our workloads are increasingly privatised and/ or we are employed on a short term or freelance basis?
How does taking industrial action fit into a broader struggle against austerity? How do we talk to our colleagues and service users about why our seemingly individual demands are collective concerns?
How do we develop forms of sustainable workplace organising that extend beyond the current climate of reactive and top-down one-day strikes?
Many of us work in the public sector and took strike action on June and November 30th, or played a role in supporting this action in our communities. This experience threw up many of the above questions, as well as practical issues about the nuts and bolts of workplace organising. We have started to discuss these questions in our collective, and now are keen to work with others who have found themselves facing similar challenges - to share skills, ideas and experiences.
Join us on 11th February for a day which will combine a morning of workplace organising training with an afternoon to discuss the wider themes.
Organised by Feminist Fightback. All genders welcome. The venue is accessible and a volunteer-run creche will be provided. Please contact us if you want to come so we have an idea of numbers, and if you have any requirements that we can help with or if you can do a slot in the creche.
feminist.fightback@gmail.com
www.feministfightback.org.uk
Suggested donation of £4 low/ unwaged, £8 waged, includes lunch.
Unite activists vote to continue pensions fight - will Unite leaders block the way?
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The following is a statement from Gill George, an SWP member who sits on Unite's Health Sector National Industrial Sector Committee.
"Absolutely brilliant"
“Don’t open this can of worms”: report of 14 January Unite the Resistance conference
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In a number of respects, the Unite the Resistance conference held, in effect, by the Socialist Workers’ Party on 14 January was better than the previous weekend’s PCS Left Unity/Socialist Party confer
Public Disorder #2 - Jan 2012-Feb 2012
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An industrial bulletin for local government workers, discussing how to organise against the pensions sell out.
A strategy for the pensions battle: motion to 7 January conference
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The Left Unity group which runs the PCS civil service union has called a conference for all public sector trade unionists to discuss the pensions battle on 7 January. PCS Independent Left and other activists will be proposing a motion to that conference.
London-wide meeting of anti-cuts committees
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Date:
6 July, 2011 - 21:00
Location:
At The Cock Tavern, Euston - 23 Phoenix Road, King's Cross, London NW1 1HB
Description:
To promote communication, solidarity and co-ordination. We urge reps and members of all London's local alliances and coalitions, and supporting organisations, to attend.
More at
falseeconomy.org.uk/campaigns/london/all/t1
www.hapsnews.net/londons-borough-wide-anti-cuts-alliances
Capita - hands off our public services!
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Date:
7 July, 2011 - 18:30 - 20:30
Location:
Capita HQ, Victoria Street, London SW1H
Description:
Subject to obtaining permission from the police (!), a protest against Capita, one of the MNCs bidding to take over running council services. More details: 07719 283132. This event was originally organised for 2 June but has been postposted till 23rd June.