Tag Archives: anti-cuts

Student movement needs organisation- and ideas

One year after breaking into the lobby of Tory HQ at Millbank, on November 9 students marched through London again, the central themes being tuition fees, soaring youth unemployment and the restructuring of higher education. Attendance was around 8,000-10,000 (though police estimates put it at much less), significantly lower than last year. This should be expected ...

Protest at Tory conference: report

On Sunday October 2 over 35,000 workers, students, pensioners and anti-cuts campaigners marched outside the Conservative Party conference. This is a sizeable increase from the 7,000 demonstrators at last year’s conference, underlining the growing, yet still sluggish, moves to resist the austerity measures. The conference itself was ringed by steel walls, barricades and hundreds of ...

COR conference: Missing perspective

Ben Lewis attended a workshop on 'Unions and the anti-cuts movement' (first published in the Weekly Worker) It is a shame that the discussion at the workshop on ‘Unions and the anti-cuts movement’ was so brief. Following interesting openings from Joe Malone (Fire Brigades Union), Cat Boyd (Public and Commercial Services Young Members) and Jon Duveen ...

London: grounds for optimism

Hopefully it will be a rather hot autumn, writes Ben Lewis (first published in the Weekly Worker) The June 30 London demonstration, which made its way from Lincoln’s Inn Fields, through Parliament Square and down to Westminster Abbey, was a lot bigger than I expected. An estimated 30,000 striking workers hit the streets. In terms of ...

Milton Keynes: Important step forward

Next time, coordinated strike action by millions, writes Dave Isaacson (first published here) The strikes in Milton Keynes showed signs of the potential for involving wider layers of workers in future action. Many onlookers were enthusiastic in their support. Along with other members of the Coalition of Resistance, I visited a number of the PCS union’s picket ...

Rekindling solidarity

Callum Williamson reports from Southampton on the day four public sector unions walked out Thursday 30th June saw the largest-scale industrial action in Britain for decades, in the context of intensifying class struggle throughout Europe and beyond. At the heart of this conflict is an attempt on the part of the capitalists and their governments to ...

Take the battle into Labour

Unions must reject the terms of debate established by government, media, and Labour opposition, argues Michael Copestake So the June 30 strikes are upon us, with four teaching and civil service trade unions out on strike against the vicious class-war cuts programme of the coalition government. Although this initial action should be seen as more of ...

Arm the movement with Marxist politics

James Turley reports on a good day in the fight to build resistance to the coalition's austerity (first published in the Weekly Worker) There can be nobody attending Saturday’s mass demonstration against the cuts who left feeling despondent or pessimistic. The official attendance estimate is in the region of 250,000, with Socialist Worker claiming “well over half ...

Manchester against cuts 5th March report

James O'Leary reports On Saturday 5th March members of Communist Students joined the march against cuts in Manchester that had been called by Manchester Coalition Against Cuts to protests against this years spending cuts and more specifically the £110 million pounds worth of cuts to services that manchester City Council are set to vote through on ...

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