UK Public sector cuts Newswire Archive
Articles on capitalism's present crisis and the prospects for revolution
09-08-2011 12:39
As capitalism stumbles ever deeper into crisis here are articles that offer some explanations for what is going on and how capitalism might be overthrown:ATOS Worker - Sick are "Parasitical Wankers" - Update and Dox
08-08-2011 17:03
ATOS Worker - Sick are "Parasitical Wankers"
07-08-2011 12:57
Anti-cuts stall in Chester
07-08-2011 09:21
Palestine Day and Hiroshima Day in Chester
07-08-2011 08:52
"Ridiculous" and "Disgusting" US Budget Deal Challenges Working Class
02-08-2011 16:22
Cut the arms trade not public services!
31-07-2011 12:37
Shut down DSEi day of action – 13th September 2011 – details TBCDigging dirt on Scotland Yard: spiked stories of Michael Gillard & Laurie Flynne
29-07-2011 21:54
An Open Letter to Mike Weatherly Conservative MP for Hove, from the occupiers of
27-07-2011 16:06
A letter on the criminalization of squatting2011: the year we took on the unaccountable elites
25-07-2011 22:20
The people are fighting back - even Charles Moore wonders if ‘the Left may actually be right’Demo against cuts to social care in Oxford
24-07-2011 14:40
A smallish, but lively crowd took the streets (OK, pavements!) of Oxford yesterday to protest against cuts to social care in a "March of the Uninvisibles".Cambridge Scraper
22-07-2011 22:40
Direct action @ Kensington & Chelsea Council’s Cabinet Meeting
20-07-2011 20:02
The Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NXat 5.30pm on Thursday 21 July 2011
The Supreme Court has ruled in support of Kensington and Chelsea council’s withdrawal of overnight care to Elaine McDonald to save money.
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Breaking news: Police less than honest
19-07-2011 20:53
Charlie Gilmore's sentance and the corrupt establishment
19-07-2011 18:11
The imprisonment of Charlie Gilmore and other students is an example of what a spiteful, vindictive and politically corrupt little nation the UK has become.Solidarity with Charlie Gilmour
19-07-2011 14:48
Predictably there has been a lot of interest and comment on the sentencing of Charlie Gilmour to sixteen months for two counts of violent disorder. It has been both suggested this was lenient because he’ll only do eight months or less on a tag, and that it was a harsher sentence because of his parent’s notoriety.Neither of these sentiments are accurate. It is a harsh, unjustified sentence – certainly far longer than those involved in drunken violence on a Saturday night receive. And those who think it’s not long should fuck off and spend a week in prison before making such facile statements.
Good News! CPS Drop 109 Fortnum & Mason protest cases
18-07-2011 21:39
Today the CPS have announced that they will be dropping 109 cases of the 145 arrested at Fortnum & Masons during anti-cuts demonstrations on March 26th. There remains 30 people who the CPS still plan on prosecuting, 13 of which have a trial set for November.
But questions remain as to why the decision was taken to arrest 145 people staging a sit-down protest against tax dodgers and why they continue to prosecute 30 individuals with the same charges as the 109 dropped today.
Some "Fortnum and Mason protest charges dropped by CPS": BBC
18-07-2011 15:07
Free the other 30!Full article | 2 additions | 3 comments
Freedom: Comrades Jailed
17-07-2011 17:41
Seven protestors have been jailed in the last couple of weeks in London and it is likely that more will follow soon.Obviously they deserve our support and also we must do everything possible to avoid others being imprisoned.
Our Society is Bigger than Yours: Squatting and the Wider Political Rumblings
15-07-2011 18:59
Despite the attempts of Tory backbenchers to delegitimize squatting, and divide it from the issue of homelessness, the two remain inextricably linked: un-met housing needs, a supply of empty property, and squatting, go hand in hand in hand. But that’s about as far as the generalizations go; squatting is both a means and an end, and the ways that different individuals and groups put squatting into practice varies enormously.
The goofy arrival of Cameron’s Big Society, which provides us with a nice neighbourly back pat to see us through the cuts, and which gives us a sense of ‘involvement’, might lead one to think squatting could have even been embraced by the Con-Dem dogma. Would it not have fitted snugly in with “the spirit of activism, dynamism, people taking the initiative, working together to get things done”? [David Cameron, 2010 conference speech] For better or worse squatting was not invited in for tea and cake and I expect this is because, like the student movement, like those protecting the right to protest, like those preparing to take industrial action on the 30th, like all of these groups, squatting is political in a way that the Big Society is not.
