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Norwich Rallies Against The Cuts

Norfolk Community Action Group | 24.10.2010 07:25

Around 200 people turned out on Hay Hill in Norwich yesterday to rally against the upcoming cuts in public services.



Speakers from Norfolk Coalition Against The Cuts and others called for a united struggle among working people and trade unionists to fight off the cuts which are likely to turn the clock back in Norfolk at least 20 years, and are the first ideological steps by ALL political parties to systematically break up and end the welfare state.

Stan Cullen Grant on behalf of NCAG called for immediate action to agitate in local communities and build the fight back as soon as possible, and requested the formation of an Unemployed Workers Centre to aid all who are likely to be savagely attacked by the cuts.

In other towns and cities across the country similar rallies and marches occurred signalling the start of a movement that has potential to dwarf even the fight back against the Poll Tax. In Edinburgh 20,000 people turned out to protest.

Meanwhile news is breaking in London that councils are booking up B&B’s outside of the city as far away as Reading and Hastings for families that will be forced to move away due to the cut in housing benefit.

The ideological motivated gentrification of our towns and cities has well and truely begun.

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