The Socialist 23 June 2010

No to Budget’s pay and benefit cuts

Stop budget attacks with mass action

Budget cuts hitting the poorest hardest

Young people: fight for your future!

Youth speak for jobs at UCU union rally

Anti-EDL protest

Protesting at Iain's Dickensian Society

The role of the NSSN in the battle to defend public sector jobs and services

Budget Day: workers' responses

Fightback to stop the cuts - public meetings

Bloody Sunday: Innocent protesters murdered by the British army in 1972

PCS union rejects 'inevitable' cuts

Unison election: Over 42,000 votes for socialist candidate

Unison leadership: Lack of anti-cuts strategy

Fighting cuts in Nottingham: Save the WAP day centre

Workplace news in brief

National Shrewsbury 24 Justice Campaign March and Rally

Refugee and Migrant Justice: Save this vital service!

Afghan war

Coventry rally against public sector cuts

Stop attacks on services for the vulnerable in Nuneaton

Birmingham: Growing anger against cuts

Save South Leeds Pool

Why BP should be nationalised

How deep is Britain's media crisis?

Ethnic conflict explodes in Kyrgyzstan

Donate to aid Greek socialists

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Stop attacks on services for the vulnerable in Nuneaton

We have repeatedly heard the government say that although the forthcoming cuts will be 'savage', the most vulnerable in society will be protected. Yet in Nuneaton cuts have targeted people already under stress and on the edge of society.

Tom Sidwell, Nuneaton Socialist Party

The Pastels day centre in Nuneaton provided support for people who experience social exclusion, long term unemployment, broken family life, anxiety, depression or other similar conditions.

As well as counselling adults, the staff and volunteers provided advice, comfort and stress management services for vulnerable school children.

But in a 'back door' cut this service was withdrawn by Nuneaton and Bedworth council with little more than 24 hours notice.

Underhand

This underhand cut to a discreet yet vital public service has left many already vulnerable people even more isolated and distressed, particularly since some were part-way through a potentially life-changing course.

The Socialist Party in Nuneaton has already launched a campaign against cuts at our local hospital, but events like this point to the need for a broader campaign against all cuts to public services, a campaign which needs to involve trade unionists and community groups. We call on all concerned citizens to join us on Wednesday 30 June for the Nuneaton People's Protest Day.

3pm at the Raveloes Conference Room, George Eliot Hospital. Lobby the Hospital Trust at its public board meeting.
5.30pm at the town hall: Join us in lobbying our councillors - let's demand they support our campaign and fight to defend public services, not carry out the government's cuts!

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