“Working people in the UK can help stop the Conservative-led coalition from taking a wrecking ball to the fabric of daily life.” That is the New Year’s message to some 3.5 million workers across both the public and private sectors from their unions, the GMB, Unison and Unite, who say that the government’s dangerous prescription […]
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Nailing Tory lies about the Cuts
Dec 30th, 2010 by Michael Meacher.The reason Labour is not already ten points ahead in the polls is that the Tories have propagated three fundamental myths – that the country’s in the state it’s in because of Labour over-spending, that the only way to redress this disastrous legacy was to cut the deficit, and that the focus had to be […]
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Labour councils should be setting social budgets……
Dec 15th, 2010 by Darrell Goodliffe.A couple of weeks ago, I managed to cause quite a Twitterstorm by suggesting that Labour councils should not, in fact, be implementing this governments cutbacks. The usual arguments were thrown about; it was ‘unrealistic‘ and ‘irresponsible‘. Amazingly, I didn’t even mention the words ‘illegal‘ and ‘budget‘ but it was still assumed a priori that’s […]
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More anti-tax avoidance action planned
Dec 8th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Courtesy of UK Uncut, we bring the details of further anti-tax avoidance action this Saturday. Also, tomorrow, the day of the tuition fee votes, students have vowed to shut down London. Here is a handy map with some places protesters might want to visit on their day out. As UK Uncut reminds us, “the tax […]
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Tax avoiders – the real “enemy within”
Dec 5th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Sir Philip Green together with other individual and corporate tax dodgers were targeted yesterday in a national wave of peaceful protest in 20 cities against tax dodgers and the cuts. Green’s flagship store in London’s Oxford Street — Britain’s largest fashion store — was closed for 3 hours, losing the company thousands on one of […]
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Targetting Topshop
Dec 3rd, 2010 by Jon Lansman.The targetting of Topshop and the rest of Philip Green’s Arcadia empire is a triumph of organisation by anti-cuts and tax avoidance activists through website UK Uncut. These are the people who have been targetting Vodaphone, closing over 30 Vodafone stores repeatedly from Glasgow to Plymouth in protest at their £6bn tax dodge. In a […]
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The TUC launches bottom-up grass-roots campaign
Dec 1st, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Across Europe, public demonstrations against the cuts have been huge, putting Britain to shame, as usual. The effect, however, in Greece and Spain, in France and Ireland, has been negligible, on governments of both Left and Right. If public opposition is to have any effect in Britain, it will depend not on how well it […]
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He’s paid £107k for attacking firefighters but he can’t turn up for critical meetings
Nov 2nd, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Brian Coleman is the Tory politician who runs London’s Fire Service. He is paid over £107,000 for being a London politician, more than three times the £33,000 average wage of a London firefighter, yet he still fails to turn up for negotiations when he has agreed to do so on TV News. Perhaps her couldn’t […]
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Violence against pickets in London fire dispute
Nov 2nd, 2010 by Andy Newman.Yesterday, at an incident in Croydon, a Fire Brigades manager was arrested for running over a picket. Today, London Daily News has details of two more violent incidents, including a serious case in Southwark, where firefighter. Ian Leahair, was run over, seemingly deliberately:
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The firefighters deserve our support
Oct 27th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Yesterday, a political row broke out because London’s 5,600 firefighters announced they would escalate their strike action unless the London Fire Brigade withdrew letters sacking all of them. The union decided to call its London members out on strike from 10 am on November 5 to 9 am on November 7. Speaking on the Today programme, General […]
