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UK Public sector cuts Newswire Archive

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MoD procurement privatisation - crucial article that didn't appear online

23-03-2012 13:55

This article appeared in the print edition of the Bristol Evening Post but someone somewhere decided it should not appear in the online edition - wonder why? It names and shames the massive companies that are circling round the MoD procurement centre at Abbey Wood, North Bristol like vultures. Just imagine if the private arms firms were in charge of overseeing government arms contracts. Bye-bye future - it's 1984 in spades! The last line - as ever - is the most important considering BAe Systems are 'at the heart of corruption' in the global arms trade.according to Andrew Feinstein (see below)

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Budget Day Protest Council House Birmingham

22-03-2012 10:31

Union Grandee's sabotage success

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report and pics on budget day parliament protests

22-03-2012 02:55

keep off the grass

after the ukuncut action at downing street this morning, protests focussed mainly on the media village at college green, with chanting and banners impingeing on broadcasts throughout the day.

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Spontaneous demo against privitisation of NHS

22-03-2012 00:55

You know when you read a headline that just trips the world from under you? For those of us who'd been trying not to pay attention, there was a certain vertigo that came from seeing that last night they rubber stamped the privitisation of the NHS. You know, the NHS. That system that has saved the lives of probably at least half a dozen people you love. That remarkable outcome of struggle for a better world in our strange little country. The service that used to be about saying- making money out of illness is wrong. That free universal healthcare is too important to leave to buisness. They're selling it off.

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report on ukuncut budget protest at downing st

21-03-2012 22:55

front of the queue
up to 350 people formed a queue outside downing street this morning in a protest called by ukuncut revisiting and subverting the famous 'labour isn't working' poster that helped bring thatcher to power in 1979 ( http://politics.guardian.co.uk/election2001/images/0,,449826,00.html)

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The New Walking Dead

20-03-2012 07:09

They created the crisis and they offers now as the saviors. 2012 can not bring anything good having put wolves caring the hen house.

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report and pics on nhs demo and actions yesterday

18-03-2012 14:55

enough

a peaceful protest to save the nhs yesterday became a blockade of whitehall and then a march through the streets of london. as TSG officers were deployed, there were some incidents and injuries, as well as a controversial incident with some gun-wielding diplomatic protection police.

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Remploy march and rally, Wrexham.

17-03-2012 21:12

Coverage of the Remploy rally and march in Wrexham (Saturday, 17 March)

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We are occupying PCT headquarters in oxford ...

16-03-2012 13:59

We are occupying PCT headquarters in oxford ...

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report and pics from yesterday's NUS walkout

15-03-2012 12:55

liaison charmer

up to a thousand london students took part in the march yesterday afternoon, starting at malet street and ending with a call for david willett's resignation at the dept for business, innovation and skills in victoria. the procession was closely policed, and new tactics were deployed.

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Campaigners Take Action Against Mainstream Banks

14-03-2012 18:12

Student cutting her Lloyds card after closing account
Residents and students close their accounts with high-street banks in protest of the financial crisis caused by the banks.

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Manchester University Walkout Against Rise of Postgraduate Fees

14-03-2012 18:04

Students march down the road after walkout
As part of the NUS National Walkout, students at the University of Manchester walked out of lectures in protest against the University’s planned rise of postgraduate fees.

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Block The Bill Builders

14-03-2012 03:03

Action against the Coalition Government's planned Health and Social Care bill has so far largely been what ministers will have expected and planned for, since privatisation of the NHS was first mooted (long before the 2010 general election).
As a result, such action is being largely ignored by those who will vote, and indeed by the mainstream media.
We are calling for a Day of Action on Wednesday 14th March

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Workfare Walk of Shame

09-03-2012 11:20

Saturday, 17 March 2012 13:00 until 16:00

Meet at Poundland, Kings Heath High Street, Birmingham

Fair Work - Not Workfare!

Join us on the Workfare Walk of Shame on Kings Heath High Street

Meet at Poundland from 1pm, at around 1:30pm we will go for a walk down Kings Heath high street, stopping off at places that use forced labour from workfare schemes.

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Save Our NHS, Public Meeting, Stroud 15 March 2012

09-03-2012 10:19

Basic poster
Following a high court challenge by Stroud resident Michael Lloyd, NHS Gloucestershire has withdrawn plans to transfer our local hospitals & 3000 NHS health workers out of the NHS. This is great news, but this is just the first step in keeping our health services in the NHS. The campaign to Keep Gloucestershire’s NHS Public needs your support now more than ever.

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Smash the Council, Blockade the Town Hall!

08-03-2012 13:35

Town Halls across the UK are now —where they ever anything else?— fronts for the implementation of control, subservience, atomisation, under the guise of austerity —a watch-tower over the “Proles”

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Wake Up Call follow-up: Oxford coaches NHS rally in London this Wednesday

05-03-2012 15:52

Following the screening of Wake Up Call, a series of three films explaining the Coalition Government's proposals for the privatisation of the NHS, there was quite a lot of interest from people interested in getting hold of the film and also to go to the rally to be held this Wednesday.

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March against “slave labour” targets big employers still backing ‘workfare’ after government U-turn

04-03-2012 08:46

Outside McDonalds
Protesters gathered outside businesses on Lewisham High Street on Saturday as part of a national demonstration against the government’s mandatory work experience schemes.

The march targeted shops said to be involved in ‘workfare’, including McDonalds, Boots, Greggs, BHS and Primark, in an attempt to pressurise them to pull out of the schemes.

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Sheffield Workfare Protest

03-03-2012 23:23

On Saturday 3rd March protestors in Sheffield gathered on Devonshire Green, were ejected from Tescos on West Street, and then proceeded to make a noise and leaflet outside Marks and Spencers, McDonalds and Primark.
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