Share A rally in Edinburgh to protest at public sector cuts was attended by more than 20,000 demonstrators. Union group the STUC arranged the event to demonstrate against measures in the UK government’s Spending Review. On Wednesday, Chancellor George Osborne announced the most wide-ranging cuts in public spending for decades. Union leaders said they...
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Share There was a good turnout – between 250 – 300 local people assembled to show their outrage against the massive cuts announced today. These cuts will hit the poorest in society who are now being made to pay for an economic crisis caused by the greed of the super-rich and their crazy banking...
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Share Report by Matthew Caygill At least 300 people attended this lively rally in the cold of a Leeds City Square teatime, organised as a first response by the the Trades Council Leeds Against the Cuts to George Osborne’s Comprehensive Spending Review. Flags and banners were flying from Unison, CWU, PCS, NAS, Unite and...
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Share Unions have reacted angrily to public sector job cuts unveiled by the Government. Close to half a million people across the country are predicted to be made redundant as a result of austerity measures announced by the Chancellor, George Osborne, in yesterday’s Comprehensive Spending Review. More than 30 workers attended a demonstration at...
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Share Over a hundred people protested as Southwark Council agreed to cut £76 million from services and sack up to 1,000 staff. The Labour-led council has adopted a high-profile media strategy which involves lamenting the cuts they are ‘forced’ to make, without doing anything to fight them. The BBC reported both on the councillors’ ‘predicament’...
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Share By Mark Tyers North East trade unionists, students and their supporters rallied outside civic centres across the North East to demonstrate their opposition to the brutal spending cuts announced by George Osbourne in Wednesday’s comprehensive spending review. Up to 500 people attended three different rallies organized by the Northern Public Service Alliance in...
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Share A dozen local activists from Hands Off Our Public Services spent Sunday lunchtime asking people in Whitechapel to sign a petition opposing government cuts to public services. The response was overwhelming from all parts of the community. People lined up to sign the petition and many spoke of their fear for the future...
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Share Thousands of high school pupils demonstrated in France against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s pension reform. A French high school student was undergoing surgery on Friday after being injured by a flash-ball shot by a police officer on Thursday. And in the northern city of Caen, a student’s father said that his son had to...
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