UK Public sector cuts Newswire Archive
Callout for South London Eviction Resistance, Tuesday 28/5/13
27-05-2013 11:49
Patmos Lodge, a squat of 2+years with 100 residents due for eviction this Tuesday morningActivists defy police attempts to gather intelligence on resistance to G8
24-05-2013 13:11
Two UK anti-capitalists, returning to the country on Sunday May 19 after attending an anarchist festival in the Netherlands (
http://www.pinksterlanddagen.org/english), were intercepted by Kent Police Special Branch officers at Dover, then detained and questioned for three hours under Schedules 7 and 8 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
StopG8 National Gathering @ London 25/26 May
24-05-2013 12:45
London Action Resource Centre - 62 Fieldgate St London E1 1ES"Where are the organ grinders?" - photos from the legal aid cuts protest
22-05-2013 19:44
Where are the organ grinders?
22-05-2013 19:19
It is not often that lawyers take to the streets. But they did on Tuesday in Manchester over the latest legal aid cuts.Sheffield Workfare Protest, June 1st
20-05-2013 21:29
The government is running scared of protests over workfare. They've been to court to try and keep the names of workfare exploiters from being published because they're scared that protests will cause the whole scheme to collapse. If we keep the pressure on, we can turn their fears into reality.Hospital Campaign Song Heading For The Charts
20-05-2013 08:56
thousands join london #may18 NHS rally - pics and report
19-05-2013 17:59
Sheffield Protest Against the Bed Room Tax
18-05-2013 13:26
‘We won’t reduce the rent … We’ll kick them out’: Research Reveals Landlord’s Response to Housing Benefit Reform
17-05-2013 07:47
A report published by the DWP gives a glimpse of the horrific future hundreds of thousands of people are set to face due to housing benefit reforms.
The report is part of an ongoing piece of ‘independent’ research commissioned by the DWP to look at the impact of the first raft of welfare reforms – the vicious cuts to housing benefits. These included the caps on the amount of benefit available to pay for housing and a reduction in local housing allowance rates from the bottom 50% to 30% of the local rental market. Another change meant that those aged under 35 are no longer entitled to a self-contained property, but can only claim the Shared Accommodation Rate (SAR).
Boris Johnson needs to stop uttering rubbish for Big Biz agenda
14-05-2013 16:09
The Plug for Boris Johnson via BIg Biz agenda hype Xrail 2 has got to be seen inthe context of the severe economic hardship that so many people across London and the South East are experiencing.
How governments created the present welfare mess
13-05-2013 20:48
It is not workshy Britons who are the cause of the present welfare mess: it is governments of all stripes who have created it over the past 35 years through their acts of commission and omissionHousing: to the haves shall be given…
13-05-2013 20:44
There is much noise made about the subsidising of those in social housing through less than market rents. That benefit is tiny compared to the benefits the state has lavished on those who buy their homes.BBC using fraud & price fixing suspects KPMG to deliver their 'business news'
11-05-2013 12:20
Press release - Anti-Capitalists publish map of targets in the West End
10-05-2013 08:27
PRESS RELEASEAnti-Capitalists are targeting the rich in the West End of London in the
run-up to the G8 Summit next month.
Britain’s Poverty Addiction
09-05-2013 08:28
I was absolutely horrified to read that the UK Government may be underestimating the numbers of families in poverty, by up to an estimated 40%, according to academics at Edinburgh University.Culling the Middle-classes
05-05-2013 11:53
This article looks at the continuing destruction of blue and white-collar working and middle-class occupations and considers the implications of this in the developing crisis of the capitalist mode of production. It also considers the current 'poverty of politics' and the other side of this coin - the 'politics of poverty'. The latter being used to blame the victims of this corrupt and exploitative system.Thatcher memorial unveiled in Birmingham for International Workers Day
02-05-2013 10:07
May Day protestors target Edinburgh workfare exploiters
02-05-2013 00:55
May Day in Edinburgh saw anti workfare demonstrators touring companies and charities using unpaid forced labour. Starting with an excursion into the giant Homebase at St Leonards the protestors from Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty went on to visit no fewer than 7 exploiting employers.
Brighton Green Party compares staff strike proposals to winter of discontent
29-04-2013 21:21
Having voted for Council officers to implement cuts to staff take home pay of up to £95 per week a leading Brighton Green Party Councillor has said compared staff strike proposals to the winter of discontent