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1 September 2010
Anti-cuts movement builds momentum in Plymouth
THE POET Shelley helped inspire a 50-strong meeting launching Plymouth's fight against the cuts. 90-year-old pensioners' campaigner, Paddy Ryan, quoted Shelley: "Rise like lions after slumber in unvanquishable...
1 September 2010
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London May Day demonstration, photo Jules Mattsson |
1 September 2010
Kazakhstan: Human rights activist beaten and arrested
HUMAN RIGHTS campaigner and lawyer Vadim Kuramshina was violently attacked and arrested last week in Kokchetava, northern Kazakhstan...
1 September 2010
Civil service jobs under the cosh
Last week the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced the lost of almost 400 jobs from the Pension Service and Jobcentres. A PCS Member in the North East writes.
1 September 2010
THE CON-Dem coalition claims that their 'progressive' cuts hit hardest at the rich and that they 'shield' poor families from the effects of austerity...
1 September 2010
Labour's three stooges aid Con-Dem coalition
THREE FORMER Labour cabinet members are now acting as advisers to the Con-Dem coalition. Prime Minister Cameron has appointed Alan Milburn his 'social mobility tsar', who is supposed to help break down...
1 September 2010
Government cuts hit our benefits
HOW WOULD you survive as a family if you had no money coming in?...
1 September 2010
Keep Middle Street centre open
MENTAL HEALTH service users in Nottingham are involved in an inspiring campaign to keep Middle Street Resource centre in Beeston open, writes Pete Watson, Nottinghamshire Unison.
1 September 2010
SOME TORY councils are showing what effects the Cameron/ Clegg cuts will have. Croydon in south London is ending its contract for school meals with Eden Foodservice, and has told schools to provide their...
1 September 2010
Pakistan flood disaster: Workers' solidarity appeal
THE FOLLOWING financial appeal has been circulated internationally by CWI socialists in Pakistan...
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