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IDS’ Same Old Deal on Benefit Reform Will Punish The Sick

07-11-2010 19:44 | Health | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | World

Baldyman must have had to think extra hard about his new ‘radical’ proposals for people on Jobseekers Allowance, aka the dole. It seems that he thought all the way back to 1997 when new Labour launched the New Deal (1), which including mandatory 30 hour a week activity for the long term unemployed.

KCC-private health at taxpayer expense

Kent County Council bosses 'enjoy' private healthcare at the expense of taxpayers. Meanwhile social care for the elderly gets cuts
(Just how 'sick' can you get? Oh, now the jobless must be made serfs doing manual 'work' for free and taking jobs from street cleaners/gardeners/ etc etc...)

25,000 students march in Ireland

05-11-2010 17:00 | Education | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | World

Upwards of 25,000 students from across Ireland descended onto the streets of Dublin on Wednesday, 2,000 students broke off and occupied the Department of Finance, here are 2 interviews with students present.

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Dublin kicks off, UK crap... as usual

03-11-2010 19:08 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

"Students occupy Dept of Finance in Dublin
News is coming in that upwards of thirty students have occupied the Department of Finance in the center of Dublin with several hundred supporting them in the streets outside. Tens of thousands of students are demonstrating as part of the USI protests against plans to introduce fees, these students carrying out the occupation appear to have broken away from the main demonstration which is taking place around the corner in Merrion square."

repost from Irish indymedia

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France: More strikes, opposition to social austerity

03-11-2010 14:23 | Analysis | Public sector cuts | Workers' Movements | World

"The political bankruptcy of the existing parties and organizations is a historic challenge to the working class. In struggling to bring down Sarkozy’s government and block implementation of social cuts, the goal cannot be to bring to power a PS government. They must fight to build a workers’ government carrying out socialist policies, as part of an international struggle against capitalism in Europe and worldwide.
The WSWS has called on workers and youth to create their own committees of action to coordinate their struggles, independent of the unions and bourgeois “left” parties. Readers in France are invited to contact the WSWS to help build a party in France to lead the fight for this perspective."

PHILIPPINES: PAL labor row erupts anew as workers protest DOLE decision

02-11-2010 11:31 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The labor row at Philippine Airlines (PAL) flares up once more at the start of the airline peak season with its workers starting today a series of protest actions against the recent decision of Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz to allow the mass layoff of some 3,000 workers. At 10:00 a.m. today dozens of members of the Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA), the ground crew union at PAL, held a symbolic protest at the main office of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Intramuros, Manila.

Vodafone Oxford St CLOSED, close yr local this Sat

27-10-2010 13:46 | Globalisation | Public sector cuts | World

Vodafone have a £6bn unpaid tax bill
The welfare cuts announced on 20.10.2010 are in the region of £7bn.
Osborne cut corporation tax.
Vodafone's Oxford St. Store was forced to close today, after an occupation. Protest continued outside

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£220 MILLION offered by government for proposed UKCMRI massive bioresearch lab

23-10-2010 13:41 | Bio-technology | Health | Public sector cuts | World

At a time of brutal public services cutbacks, the government has offered £220 million towards the highly controversial UKCMRI bioresearch laboratory proposed for central London.

Coalition Against Austerity Cuts, Downing Street, London - Pictures

21-10-2010 02:00 | Globalisation | Public sector cuts | Terror War | World

On the day the coalition Government announce major and severe cuts in public sector spending in the domestic British economy, and a day after the announcement of an 8% cut in military spending, campaigners against the cuts assemble in London to march on Downing Street to object to the scale of the cuts.

Photos - Oct 20th - Lancaster protest against the cuts!

21-10-2010 01:52 | Public sector cuts | Workers' Movements | World

There was a good turnout - estimated to be between 250 - 300 local people, who assembled to show their outrage against the massive cuts announced today.

A Tale of Two Nations: Red Hot France; Tepid Britain

France is grinding to a standstill as millions of workers and students erupt in the streets at the government’s prposal to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. Across the Channel, the new Tory Chancellor has announced savage cuts in public expenditures that will slice away more than a million jobs, drive workers out of south east England and doom the country to years of austerity (unequally imposed, bien sur.) Yet the response has been muted.

Squatted Police Station Resisting Eviction

Quote from the occupiers:

Political Descent Poll

19-10-2010 21:41 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | World

Just how far would you go? Is the criminal damage done to Nottingham County Hall ever justified, let us know what your opinion is in this Poll!

Southend On Sea...Time To Get Up

Cuts being announced Wednesday affecting all of us...Time to mobilise and make ourselves heard..

Striking port workers in Marseille know the truth (modified by General Joe)

14-10-2010 10:18 | Analysis | Public sector cuts | Workers' Movements | World

"They (French workers) are “fighting privatization,” as we all should be. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be a slave to private capital either! This article, like most in the capitalist press, omits this essential information to benefit the owners and bosses. Get a clue folks and stand up and fight back or be prepared to have everything stolen from you. Remember, the rich don’t want but one thing. And that’s “everything.” Kind a makes the bank bailouts a little more understandable don’t you think. See “class war” all around you."

Police Station Squatted In London

A police station has been squatted in London in retaliation against police oppression.

What follows is a communique' from the occupied to the occupiers:

‘Not Red Ed’ – reinventing Labour, again and again

Amazing, after thirteen years of neo-Thatcherism, the beaten ‘party of labour’ all of a sudden rediscovers its ‘roots’. Who could trust such people? If the whole charade wasn’t such a miserable and desperate attempt to regain the ‘high ground’, Labour’s attempt to reinvent itself again, it would be nothing short of laughable.

General Strike in Spain

A general strike is taking place throughout Spain today aginst the so-called "austerity measures" imposed by the government and capital. Since midnight piquets, blockades, actions and demonstrations are taking place all over the Spanish State. The strike is planned to last for 24h until midnight tonight..

For continuous coverage, latest reports and updates from the streets check out: