This is the text of a leaflet distributed by CS members at the NUS anti-cuts demonstration on Wednesday 21st November. Click on the image to download a PDF version. The world is in economic chaos – and social devastation is everywhere the result. Around 40,000 Greek children are starving, living standards across Europe are plummeting and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Michael Copestake reports from the steel city Friday March 4th saw Sheffield City Council sitting in the town hall in order to vote through its package of budget cuts for the forthcoming year, to the tune of some £80 million. Outside the town, in the freezing cold, gathered a crowd consisting mostly of trade unions representing ...
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 ...
While we have a long way to go from here, Dave Isaacson argues that the anti-cuts movement in Milton Keynes has made an impressive start The past week has been an important one for the anti-cuts movement in Milton Keynes. Here the left and anti-cuts activists seem to have united to ...