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25 April 2012
Workers' Memorial Day 28 April
In 1912 when the Titanic sank, workers' lives were considered expendable by the bosses. But is the situation any better today?, writes Jack Palmer.
20 April 2012
For councils that fight the cuts!
Set a 'needs budget': New Labour, Plaid Cymru and Green councils say that have 'no choice' but to implement the cuts - but that just isn't true...
4 April 2012
Who decides?: The High Pay Centre has answered a question we've been wondering about for a while - who decides to pay chief executives the outrageous amounts they get...
28 March 2012
Budget for the 1% must be fought
The blatantly pro-rich budget of Chancellor George Osborne was met by a wave of outrage. There was incredulity that the top 1% had been made significantly better off, while pushing on with austerity for everyone else
28 March 2012
Budget 2012: reject regional pay
One of the many attacks on workers in the budget is the proposal to introduce regional pay in the public sector, including the civil service...
22 March 2012
Chancellor of the 99% announces alternative budget
Yesterday in London 300 activists protested against Chancellor George Osborne's austerity budget. On hand was Youth Fight for Jobs' "Chancellor for the 99%" to outline an alternative
21 March 2012
Another repugnant Tory-Liberal budget for big business and the rich
Trying to fit in with the angry mood of ordinary people against bankers' bonuses, bailouts and other windfalls of the rich, Tory chancellor Osborne in his budget speech called tax evasion by the wealthy "morally repugnant"
Pigs at the trough: Obsorne's budget 2012 a hand out for the rich , photo Alan Hardman
21 March 2012
Budget: far from 'all in it together'
Asked about the Con-Dem budget, Simon Hughes, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats pleaded for "a budget for the millions not the millionaires"
15 March 2012
RMT calls Budget Day of Action
Rail union RMT is holding a Budget "Day of Action" over government plans to axe thousands of jobs, close ticket offices, jack up fares and give the train operating companies "gold plated" franchises as it implements the McNulty Rail Review recommendations, writes Information from a RMT press release, 12 March 2012:.
22 February 2012
Portsmouth: Anti-cuts activists present an alternative budget
Austerity is not working! That was the message delivered to Portsmouth city council on Tuesday when 100 anti-cuts activists lobbied the annual budget setting meeting, before presenting a 'needs budget'...
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
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