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SchNEWS: One Strike and You're Out?

SchNEWS | 02.12.2011 09:24 | Policing | Public sector cuts | Workers' Movements | South Coast

Wednesday's N30 strikes saw 2 million public sector workers striking and hundreds of thousands marching in Britain's streets all over the country, marking the biggest strike in a generation.

Demonstrations and pickets were held in nearly every major town across the UK, with the largest gatherings seeing 30,000 in London, 20,000 in Manchester, 15,000 in Birmingham and 10,000 in Edinburgh and Glasgow. More than 6 out of 10 schools were closed for the day and some activists from Occupy London stormed the offices of the UK's highest paid CEO, Mick Davis, head of Xstrata mining corporation. Reports are of 75 arrests in total, most of them around the occupation of the Xstrata office and in Hackney, after some demonstrators were kettled for four hours, then taken into custody on 'suspicion of breach of the peace'. [More]

From the Newswires: Link to Video | Birmingham: Video | Brum Strike and Protest | Photos 1 | Photos 2 | Stirchley and Cotteridge report | Nottingham: Feature | NUJ discuss BBC cuts | The march | The speeches | Ready to march | Prof Samir Amin at N30 | N30 critical mass | More on Critical Mass | | County Hall picket | N30 march | London: Cop punches protester in face | Report and audio from pickets and march | Undercover cop spotted | banners at #N30 | Dalston 37 re-arrested | Hackney arrests update | N30 Photos | Occupy lsx march | Occupy lsx N30 report | My Day Out on Strike | Fuck total policing | Photos | N30 in Brixton | Shut the City | Banner drop | London feature | Riot cops at Peckham social centre | Panton House occupation | Storming of Panton House | Panton House arrests | Occupy lsx on Panton House action | Video link | Aberdeen: N30 Big Breakfast | Wrexham: N30 in Wrexham | Report and photos | Sheffield: N30 strike action | Occupation solidarity statement | Photos from the Strike Rally | Picket line anthems | Occupation | Oldham:: Morning of N30 | March and rally | St. Andrews: N30 action | Anarchist bloc | Bristol: Huge turnout | Santa arrested | More on the santa attack | Swindon: 1000 march | Oxford: My march | What a brilliant day! | West Yorkshire: Solfed report | Newcastle: March | Brighton: 6,000 march | Cambridge: Thousands take to streets | Milton Keynes: Photo | Photos and video | Herefordshire: Report

Strike analysis and announcements: But how could we win? | Major success | Anarchist Federation Analysis | Message for the Chancellor | N30 Strike Bristol | N30 Strike Notts | Gabber Solidarity Sounds | N30 in the North-west | Jeremy Clarkson's comments | Responses to Clarkson

See Also:
OccupyLSX | Day of Action News | IMC uk Timeline



The action by Occupy London saw around 300 protesters, and a samba band, split off from the main march and approach Panton House, where Xstrata's offices are based. About 60 people managed to gain entrance to the building in Haymarket and unfurled a banner saying “All power to the 99%” from the roof”. Once the police caught up with them some left by their own accord, leaving twenty inside to try and hold the space. They were violently arrested by police and taken outside to the sight of hundreds from the march who had joined to show solidarity and been kettled. Mick Davies was the highest 'compensated' executive in the FTSE 100 in 2011, receiving nearly £18.5million for his efforts as his company lost money and the economy collapsed.

David Cameron did his best to stop his lip from wobbling as he branded the nation's actions as a 'damp squib', declaring that the industrial action would have no effect whatsoever on austerity measures, stating “Britain must live within its means”. If the highest ranking politicians, bankers and businessmen in this country had managed to learn how to do that, it's possible the crippling cuts to essential public services might not be quite so “necessary”.

Despite the devil-may-care attitude, the government has since become a little more uncertain on reaching a definitive plan for the cuts by the end of the year. Ministers leading the pensions talks between government and the unions had, up until the strikes, been hardline in their commitment to reaching an agreement before January 2012. The word now coming out of Downing Street is that no deadline has been set, and they are hoping for a resolution by the end of the year if “unions and government negotiators engaged in a very positive manner”.

Also in SchNews this week: | Back on the Frack | Rogues Gallery | The Forest Recommission | Greenpeace of The Action | Thou Shalt Notts Squat | U-Boat If You Want To | City BNP Rabbit Sex Shame

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