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7 December 2011
Ireland: Resist latest austerity attacks
The Fine Gael/Labour coalition government in the Irish republic announced yet another austerity package on 4 December, amounting to a €3.8 billion (£3.27 billion) cut, to deal with its financial deficit caused by the banking failure and the capitalist recession...
30 November 2011
Brighton Greens fail to fight the cuts
Brighton local government elections in May 2011 resulted in 23 Green councillors, 18 Tories and 13 Labour, giving the Greens, elected on an 'anti-cuts' election campaign, control over the council cabinet
12 October 2011
Wales Assembly budget: Labour piles on the misery
The Welsh Labour-led government's 2012-2013 draft budget, published on 4 October is the second one in a row to cut Welsh public services, writes Edmund Schluessel.
Birmingham strike 2008
8 June 2011
Birmingham: city of a thousand cuts
Birmingham has been hit hard by the ongoing capitalist crisis. Unemployment stands at 11.6% and the city is now facing brutal council led cuts
25 May 2011
Why Liverpool needs a needs budget
On 14 May 2011 Derek Hatton, deputy leader of the 47 Liverpool councillors in their battle against the Tory government's cuts from 1983 to 1987, pronounced in the Liverpool Echo newspaper that refusing to implement the cuts would be political suicide for present-day Labour leader Joe Anderson...
Protesting in Manchester in January, photo Dave Beale
13 April 2011
Con-Dems' economic policy... austerity, austerity, austerity!
'The worst is yet to come'. The Con-Dem chancellor, George Osborne, claims his budget (24 March) is the "most pro-growth budget for a generation", writes Lynn Walsh, Editor of Socialism Today.
5 April 2011
Belt-Tightening Brown Threatens Cutbacks
GORDON BROWN has warned his fellow ministers to abandon any hopes of big rises in next year's public spending round...
Save Sure Start services - Westminster campaign, photo Save our Childrens Services
30 March 2011
Around 30 supporters of the Save Our Children's Services - Westminster campaign marched on the 26 March TUC demonstration, writes Elizabeth O'Hara.
Labour councillors' conference lobbied by hundreds of angry trade unionists, photo Suzanne Beishon
24 March 2011
All of these measures, and many more, could be carried out by using councils' legal powers. However, alone, legal powers would not be enough...
24 March 2011
Budget fuels determination to fight back!
The chancellor of the exchequer's budget speech yesterday came as no relief at all to the many millions of people who are struggling to make ends meet and who are reeling under the onslaught of the government's austerity measures
23 March 2011
Little to laugh about in 'Carry On Cuts' budget
Like so many sequels, George Osborne's second full budget as Chancellor will be a disappointing re-run of the first. Working class people will find little to cheer them, writes Sean Figg.
16 March 2011
Huge protests against job insecurity
OVER 300,000 people took to the streets in Lisbon and ten other Portuguese cities on Saturday 12 March to protest against unemployment and job insecurity...
13 March 2011
Labour imposes a 'Tory budget' in Waltham Forest
On Tuesday 8 March Waltham Forest Labour councillors attempted to do their dirty deeds - £29.5 million of cuts - in secret
9 March 2011
Brighton: Labour and Green Party councillors fail to stop Tory budget
ON THURSDAY 3 March, Brighton and Hove council passed a budget condemning the city to £24 million of cuts, writes Peter Knight, Brighton Socialist Party and Clive Heemskerk.
7 March 2011
Labour and Green councillors in Brighton fail to stop Tory budget
Protesters witnessed a horrendous farce of a council budget meeting inside Brighton Town Hall that agonisingly swung an axe down on jobs, communities and services
3 March 2011
Fighting the cuts: Thousands protest, lobby and occupy
Reports from around the UK: Thousands of people demonstrated against cuts last week, as shown in these reports in this week's issue of the Socialist from Hull, Camden, Lambeth, Haringey, Lewisham, Birmingham, Swansea and Bradford
3 March 2011
A SIX-foot high security fence. A special unit of 1,000 police. Late night court sittings. Sounds like the West Bank? No, welcome to the Lib Dems' spring conference in Sheffield on 11-13 March! Alistair Tice, Sheffield Socialist Party, writes.
Rob Williams, National Shop Stewards Network anti-cuts convenor, addresses protesters, photo Lambeth Socialist Party
24 February 2011
"No ifs, no buts, don't vote for Tory cuts!" say Lambeth protesters
A little bit of Wisconsin came to Brixton last night as over 100 protesters invaded Lambeth Council's budget meeting after a lobby of about 300 local people
23 February 2011
Protesters force delay of Leeds council's budget setting
Around 150 anti-cuts protesters lobbied Leeds City Council's budget setting meeting on Wednesday 23 February. A mood grew to carry out a sit-in inside the council chamber
16 February 2011
Nottinghamshire county council Unison is balloting for strike action against the Tory administration of councillor Kay Cutts, writes By a Unison member.
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