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Home 2010/10/22
REVOLUTION and the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts are calling for swift, radical action against education cuts and tuition fees. more… Thousands demonstrated across Britain in protests and rallies against Osbourne's cutting review more… Saturday October 9 saw an attempt by the English Defence League to attack Leicester and divide its people. The attempt was thwarted. And that happened primarily through the independent mobilisation of people, especially based in their neighbourhoods, rather than via existing antifascist groups. Chris Newham report more… Featuring:
- Protest against Tory cuts on 20 October!
- Ex oil boss' plan for education... FEES TO ROCKET – ARTS AND HUMANITIES DEPT DESTROYED
- Student campaign calls for walkout
- Manchester fights to defend law centre
- Chilean President: no friend of miners
- Ken Loach and Jerry Hicks speak at packed rally
more…The appeal for a Coalition of Resistance launched in the summer has attracted widespread support. Luke Cooper looks at the strengths of this new initiative, the tasks it faces, and the controversy surrounding unity in the movement more… Chris Newham reports from Leicester more… ANTICAPITALISM will bring together a range of activists in the movement to discuss the global economic crisis, how we can build resistance and a socialist alternative to the profit system. This is an ideal event to learn socialist ideas for the first time, as well as participate in debates on the future of the movement among seasoned activists – ANTICAPITALISM 2010 is not to be missed! more… Smirking Tory ministers queued up to announce one vicious attack after another at their party conference in Birmingham, gearing up the public for the hell to be faced in the coming Comprehensive Spending Review, writes John Bowman more… A massive wave of strikes is shaking Europe, as millions of workers walk out of factories and offices and take to the streets against the most vicious set of cuts since the war. Dave Stockton explains how we can win more… All across Europe, working class people are angry. Angry at job losses. Angry at VAT hikes. Angry at cuts in benefits that throw the poorest on to the streets. more… Jerry Hicks is standing for general secretary of Unite – the largest union in Britain and Ireland. Workers Power has been hitting bus depots across the country with campaign material. Jerry is fighting for strikes and direct action against the cuts. Billy McKean spoke to Jerry more… The Tea Party represent an increasingly crazed movement connected with a wing of the Republican party, writes Stephen Davidson from Workers Power USA more… The impact of the economic crisis is Latin America is polarising politics, writes Keith Spencer more… Looking around on the European TUC’s day of action on the streets of Brussels, I was struck by the immense energy of the 100,000 marchers against the cuts. more… Ed Miliband’s would not have won this election without positioning himself to the left of his brother, and Blair and Brown. But anyone looking beyond the foolish headlines in the Tory tabloids will quickly realised that Ed’s no red. Luke Cooper explains more…
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• Weds 20 Oct, 5pm, protest the spending review, Lincolns Inn Fields, London
• Thurs 21 Oct, 7.30pm, After the spending review, lets stop the Tory cuts!, Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Sqr, London
• Sat 23 Oct, 11am, Trade Union march against the cuts, RMT HQ39 Chalton Street, London
• Sat/Sun 6-7 Nov, Start 11am – Anticapitalism Event, UCL, London
• Sat 27 Nov, 10am, Coalition of Resistance Conference, Camden Centre, London
WP Weekly
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• As Spending Review horrors revealed...STOP THE TORIES
• Eyewitness report "this is a dress rehearsal for the French revolution"
• On strike: London firefighters
Monthly magazine
• Ed Miliband: which side is he on?
• Osborne's Evil Cuts
• Interview: back militant challenge Jerry Hicks for Unite election
• Indefinite general strikes can beat European cuts
• Latin America – heading for crunch between left and right
• Tea Party – crazed reaction on the march
• The Pope, the protests and the sins of Socialist Worker
• Communist policy: from anticuts committees to working class power
Links
• Revolution Socialist Youth
• Lambeth Workers Power
• Red Postie Blog
• Right to Work Campaign
• National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts
• Lambeth Activists Group
• Housmans Radical Bookshop
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