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Details of Anti-Cuts Protests across UK this Saturday

alibi | 21.10.2010 21:15 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

A list of anti-cuts demonstrations in towns and cities across the UK this weekend. Please help in distributing this list to other messageboards and mailing lists you have access to.

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From small seeds...

* London: Assemble at RMT HQ, 39 Chalton Street, London NW1 1JD at 11.00am. March to TUC, Great Russell street, London WC1B 3LS where rally will be held from 12 noon. More info:  http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/events/index.cfm/id/FED426FF-A016-41A3-AF50C37B852305B6 and  http://www.rmt.org.uk/ and a PDF flyer here:  http://www.pcs.org.uk/download.cfm?docid=80AD95BB-DAE2-49DF-BDB62A37CE312A77


* Belfast: assemble 1pm College of Art Gardens.  http://www.rmt.org.uk/


* Bristol: Assemble: 11am, Castle Park, March through Bristol city centre, Rally: 12pm, College Green. More info:  http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/events/index.cfm/id/E64C7F3B-3684-4F6E-A8AF937D22EBA3DA


* Cambridge: Assemble 12 noon Parkside Fire Station, Rally 1.30pm, Large Hall, Cambridge Guildhall. More info:  http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/events/index.cfm/id/49AB67A0-47C6-4A97-BA543095BBBE58D3 and  http://www.cambstuc.org.uk/2010/10/defend-public-services-fight-all-cuts/#more-272


* Cardiff: assemble City Hall at noon.  http://www.rmt.org.uk/


* Derby: 'Derby People's Day' , Market Place, noon to 3pm, Speakers, music and street stalls.  http://www.rmt.org.uk/


* Edinburgh: assemble 11am: at East Market Street, march leaves 11.30am to Ross Bandstaff for rally from 12.30pm. More info:  http://www.thereisabetterway.org/events/1/there-is-a-better-way-demo


* Lincoln: assemble noon at Castle Square, march to rally at Cornhill at 1pm.  http://www.rmt.org.uk/


* Manchester: Assemble at St Peter's square at 11am for a demo
Public meeting after the demo from 2pm in the Peterloo room, Mechanics institute, 103 Princess street, Manchester. More info:  http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/events/index.cfm/id/67E63206-8744-4C55-B5AD30F5D99A2D58


* Norwich: Rally starts at 12.30, HayHill. Organised by Norfolk Coalition Against the Cuts. More info:  http://www.tuc.org.uk/economy/tuc-18353-f0.cfm?regional=7 and  http://norfolkcoalitionagainstcuts.org/


* Sheffield: regional demo assembling outside City Hall, 12.30pm. more info:  http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/events/index.cfm/id/1DA8179F-EA1B-4C8E-89D21B338BD29CF1


* York: March and Rally in York City centre. Assemble 1pm in Parliament Street. March through city centre at 1.30pm. More info:  http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/events/index.cfm/id/78093F5B-CB43-45B8-89D8C7E6292EE49B and  http://yorkstopthecuts.wordpress.com/


Other protest details available via Unison and PCS websites:  http://www.unison.org.uk/spendingreview/events.asp and  http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/events/index.cfm


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Coalition of Resistance

21.10.2010 21:33

Also worth checking Coalition of Resistance website for further details:
 http://www.coalitionofresistance.org.uk/

alibi

Financial interest

22.10.2010 11:13

Most of the people on these demos will be public sector staff worried about their jobs,not our services.

If the public had seen any significant improvement in services over the last few years while New Labour put 800,000 plus extra staff on the public payroll then perhaps many people would be worried about the cuts. But the extra staff have at best been completely useless and have cost us lots of money.

And don't forget that many of the new staff New Labour hired were employed to carry out all the nasty, illiberal and authoritarian new laws and schemes so beloved of that vile regime.

Who is crying for the workers made redundant because the ID card scheme has been scrapped? Not me!

Pete

What about welfare?

22.10.2010 20:15

Sorry, but that last comment is totally questionable. The cuts in the CSR are to welfare, education, local gov't - basically what's left of the civil society in this country. If they go through, there's a fairly high chance, given what's happened before in similar situations, that the economy will tailspin (and given the kind of factional apathy that above commenter and others have displayed, that'll probably lead to some kind of corporate-fascist takeover while everyone else condemns each other for caring about where their own food comes from).

Sure Labour employed more people than the Tories did, that's ideology for you. If they didn't, they wouldn't even be able to call themselves 'New Labour'. That the Labour Party leadership were too distracted, arrogant, giddy or plain malicious to put these people to good use is just what we should expect from them by now. But we can't throw good people and their children on the scrapheap because Westminster didn't produce the right policies. They never do.

The bankers caused this global crisis, and the only way for people to survive it with any self-respect is to stand together and fight together.

klum