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Government raises the stakes by urging people to break the strike and threatening more anti-union laws

Photo of March 26 protestors from Guardian article Trade unions and anti-cuts campaigners plan summer of protest

Solidarity with the pensions strike: 30 June

The Con-Dem Government has raised the stakes in the public-sector pensions strike this Thursday by denouncing the unions taking action, encouraging people to scab, and threatening new anti-union laws.

The attack on public-sector pensions amounts to a massive wage cut. Low-paid workers on less than £20,000 a year will be paying £500 more in pension contributions, working for an extra year, and then losing thousands on their retirement payouts.

The Con-Dem package is: pay more, work longer, get less. It amounts to tens of thousands being screwed out of every public-sector worker in order to pay for bank bailouts and avoid taxing the rich.

That is why every anti-cuts activist should support the strike. We need maximum unity, numbers, and impact this Thursday. Everyone who can should join the picket-lines and demos.

London CoR activists should try and be at Lincoln’s Inn Fields from 10am onwards to help distribute placards, broadsheets, and postcards. The London demo is set to move off around 11.30am for a march on Parliament and a rally at Central Hall.

Local marches and rallies have been organised in the following towns and cities:

Aberystwyth Birmingham Boulmer Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Cambridge Carlisle Chatham Chelmsford Chester Colchester Dorchester Dover Dundee Edinburgh Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Halifax Hastings Hinckley

Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Lancaster Landrindod Wells Leeds Leicester Lincoln Liverpool London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Newcastle-upon-Tyne Northampton Norwich Nottingham Oxford Peterborough

Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Sheffield Southampton Southend Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Truro Wales Walsall Wigan Wolverhampton Worcester Worthing Wrexham York

JUNE 30th SEND US YOUR REPORTS The Coalition of Resistance website will be running a Live Blog on June 30th Starting from 7am. Send us your reports, video and images from the picket lines, rallies, protests and any other actions you are involved in using the details below. Post your images to our Flickr photostream using this email: [email protected] Upload to our YouTube Channel using this email: [email protected] Use #J30 – Follow us on Twitter @CantPayWontPay Phone or Text message reports: 07581418837 [email protected]

Register for the national conference: 9 July

The Coalition of Resistance National Members and Delegates Conference takes place on Saturday 9 July, 10am-5pm, at the University of London Union, Malet Street, London, WC1E (nearest station: Euston).

Speakers include: Mark Serwotka, PCS General Secretary, Wendy Savage, Co-chair, Keep Our NHS Public, John McDonnell MP, Clare Solomon, ULU President, Zita Holbourne, BARAC Joint Chair, Mehdi Hasan, New Statesman, and Lindsey German, Stop the War.

The conference will debate resolutions, re-elect the National Council, and involve workshop-based discussions on economics, the NHS, education, disability care, work and the unions, and international solidarity.

All CoR supporters should register for the conference and encourage union branches, student unions, anti-cuts groups, and campaign groups to send representatives. We need a big, representative conference to debate the way forward after 30 June.

 

Order broadsheets and placards

For meetings, street stalls, and local protests, you can order the following:
Copies of the new CoR Broadsheet 2 (June 2011)
CoR placards (lollipops with CoR logo on one side, NO CUTS slogan on the other)
CoR recruitment leaflets
CoR conference registration postcards
CoR badges
Send requests for campaign material, stating quantities and postal address, to: [email protected]

Volunteer to Help

Every Wednesday and Friday, between 10am and 6pm, we are asking volunteers to come into our office to help build and prepare for the CoR National Conference. The office is at Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, London N1. If you can help, phone Sam on 07872 481769.

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