UK Public sector cuts Newswire Archive
Hundreds vote with their feet by disrupting UK Energy Summit
03-05-2012 15:45
Arrests as climate activists and anti-cuts protesters disrupt UK Energy Summit
03-05-2012 11:42
Spirit of May Day Flickers Back to Life
03-05-2012 10:07
May Day in the Philippines
03-05-2012 06:27
A visit to Occupy Brookes
03-05-2012 01:05
Liverpool Workfare Walk of Shame Occupies City Centre Exploiters
02-05-2012 16:14
Report on Liverpool Workfare Walk of Shame that took place on Sat 28th AprilDefend vulnerable people
02-05-2012 14:46
We are a group of individuals who have friends, relatives and are vulnerable people ourselves.Full article | 2 additions | 1 comment
London Stock Exchange: Paternoster Square Occupied
01-05-2012 20:55
The original intended occupation site of Occupy London - Paternoster Square - adjacent to the stock exchange, has been occupied by Occupy London on Mayday since around 6.45pm
Mayday Workfare Demos Shut Ox St. Stores - report
01-05-2012 18:55
After the London Mayday trade union march up to 300 people took part in a roving anti-workfare demo with a banner reading "Workfare is Stealing Our Jobs", shutting down various branches of MacDonalds, Greggs, Topshop, BHS, Holland and Barrett and others including Boots, Pizza Hut, Greggs and more all along Oxford street and beyond. The protest was called by the London Solidarity Federations and supported by Occupy London. The final destination for Occupy London was to retake Paternoster Square.
Where We Stand : Formation of a new anarchist communist project in the UK
01-05-2012 11:14
May Day statement of "Collective Action". In it we outline our analysis of the problems facing the anarchist movement in the UK and offer a call out to all independent anarchist communists to participate in our project to re-visit our political tradition, re-group and re-kindle our political action.Day five at Occupy Brookes
24-04-2012 19:22
A summary of the fifth day of the Occupy Brookes MovementFrom Bristol With Love #19
22-04-2012 09:04
From Bristol with Love is a showcase for local music, local news and new forms of local thinking.
Virgin Keep our NHS Public Picket: report and pics
21-04-2012 14:48
Living in Sweden and the meaning of ‘subhuman’ - Intrepid Report
20-04-2012 15:21
Keep Virgin Profiteering Out of Our NHS!
20-04-2012 09:28
Keep Our NHS Public will be picketing the Virgin Store, Cornmarket, Oxford, 12 noon this Saturday.They Took the Air out of the Life Jacket – A Report From a Workfare Attendee
19-04-2012 17:11
http://www.boycottworkfare.org/ If you are on, or have been on the work programme, or one of the other workfare schemes, please get in touch with us, anonymously if you want, and let us know what happened and whether it was useful to you. email
BirminghamAgainstTheCuts@Gmail.com or comment on this post. At our demonstrations we’ve had many people stop and talk to us telling us that workfare did not help them, and the more of these stories we can publicise, the more pressure there is on the government to scrap the scheme and stop the providers profiteering from the taxpayer.
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Rights not Charity! - Protest brings traffic to a standstill
19-04-2012 07:02
Square and moved off towards Trafalgar Square. It started raining intermittently. Police accompanied us and were not happy that we were on the road. They tried to get information and we heard them asking what were our plans but none of us spoke to them.
Arriving at Trafalgar Square, 2 groups of wheelchair users split up and block up two junctions. Police tried to get us off the street while activists chanted and voiced their protests.
Mass Protest against Disablist Cuts - 18th April
16-04-2012 19:08
Meet outside McDonalds in Leicester Square at 1.30pm - Wednesday 18th AprilRich people tax avoidance = £38Billion. Poor people Benefit fraud = £1.1Billion
10-04-2012 09:33
New direct action policies against inequality required...