The Socialist 18 August 2010

Action now to defeat cuts!

Action now to defeat cuts!

Pakistan: Workers' solidarity urgently needed

Floods in Pakistan bring devastation - poor suffer most

Youth must fight for a future!

Student demo should be start of the fightback

No to advice service cuts

Decent pay for interns

Uni bosses say cuts will cause closures

Forecasts of fragile economic growth

Cameron sticks the boot into our council housing

Private-profit company granted 'snoopers' charter'

Private Finance Initiative: A licence to print money

Coventry Against the Cuts challenge councillors' 'legal obligation'

Northern Ireland: Belfast Stop the Cuts Alliance established

Bromley care workers fight privatisation and job cuts

Defend Our Community Services launched in Bracknell

Cuts devastate mental health services

The legacy of Leon Trotsky

Kirklees Unison strike ballot launched

CWU members accept BT pay deal

Debate how to fight back at Socialism 2010

Tube staff vote for action against cuts

Jobs under threat at Ministry of Justice

Airport workers win improved offer from BAA

Workplace news in brief

Socialist Party summer camp - book now!

Russia's raging wildfires - a crisis of government policies

Bradford must organise against the EDL

Birmingham: Community says 'No' to racist spy cameras

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Northern Ireland: Belfast Stop the Cuts Alliance established

At a meeting in Belfast on 16 August, socialist and trade union activists agreed to form the Stop the Cuts Alliance in order to build opposition to the cuts from Westminster and Stormont. Its first decision was to call a protest against cuts at 1pm outside Belfast City Hall on 29 September as part of the day of action called by the European Trade Union Confederation.

Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party (Northern Ireland)

Many groups and unions were invited to democratically discuss how to build opposition to the savage cuts being implemented to public services. Activists from the NIPSA and Unite unions, the Socialist Party, other left groups, and Save Mid-Ulster Hospital campaign, amongst others, attended the meeting. Messages of support from the teachers' union INTO and the Fire Brigades Union were announced at the meeting.

It was agreed that all cuts must be opposed and to counter the argument from Stormont ministers that certain services should be prioritised while others must be cut. This is a conscious attempt to divide workers into an argument over where cuts should be made. Likewise, it is also important to unite public and private sector workers against the cuts which will have a devastating knock-on impact on the private sector.

The meeting decided to support plans currently being discussed by the NIC-ICTU trade union federation to call major demonstrations in October after the announcement of major cuts in the comprehensive spending review.

It also agreed to support proposals from the NIC-ICTU jobs and services committee to hold a protest at Stormont to send a clear message to the politicians carrying out cuts, as well as holding a Stop the Cuts city centre protest for workers to participate in.

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