Without links as FB keeps blocking this message - noticed that was happening with FBU strike info and links too and some peoples profiles were dissapearing.. What was also good was that another support group with a wider audience cut and paste the whole bulletin and sent it round to their 1,514 members!
THEM:
The huge cheers as cuts were announced in parliment, spoke volumes of the real interests and concerns of this CONDEM government. With half a Million public sector jobs to be slashed, now a total of £18 million from Welfare, and more taken from benefits than will be collected in the bankers levy, this is not us all in it together!
The 'Debt' is not ours to pay, it has come from the Bankers bonouses, the wasted Trident spends, MP's expenses, and the uncollected taxes of the rich. The £6 million pound uncollected taxes of VODAPHONE, which provoked a protest this week, is just one example.
AND US:
When it became clear that the TUC Congress had pulled back from organising a demo in response to the ConDem Comprehensive Spending Review this year, the NSSN, along with RMT, FBU, PCS and NUT London representatives decided to go ahead and call one which was led by Firefighters and RMT members. Fuller reports on our website.
As the Scottish TUC took the initiative for a national demo 20,000 took to the streets. Over 2000 people attended the Bristol ANTI CUTS alliance protest from across the South West and were shamlessly attacked by Police. Great marches also took place in Manchester, York, Sheffield, Wrexham, Cardiff, Belfast and Lincoln. Inside the SERTUC rally Bob Crow raised the temperature and gained a standing ovation.
SO WHAT NEXT?
An NSSN model motion for united coordinated action and a national demo is now being circulated. The NSSN in London and elsewhere will encourage all its supporters to push for a 24 hour public sector strike and a national demo before Xmas! PCS at its recent NEC is also supporting this and will be pushing for this too. (PSC NEC Link disabled). This is alongside continued work within our unions, alliances and community campaigns. We will then follow up with an Anti-Cuts Conference on January 22nd.
INTERNATIONAL
TAMIL NADU - 500 workers jailed in dispute with FOXCONN. The company signed an agreement with a union belonging to the ruling party in the state -- a union which had no support at all among the workers. Messages of protest requested:
www.labourstart.org
PROTEST 2nd Nov, 4.15pm, Australian High Commission, The Strand, London: Ark Tribe is an Australian construction worker and trade unionist who faces jail for refusing to face an interrogation by the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC), an anti-trade union body set up by the previous Howard government.
Friday 12 November 2010, Demonstration in memory of Jimmy Mubenga RIP Died while in the hands of G4S private security guards, , Assemble 10:30am @ the Angolan Embassy in London (22 Dorset Street, London, W1U 6QY). Nearest tube stations: Baker Street/ Marylebone. March to the Home Office (2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF)
GENERAL ANTI CUTS
Large Anti Cuts Lobbies & meetings took place this week in Hackney, Bromely & Greenwich.
30th OCT March
Hastings - Stop the cuts with a Halloween theme, fancy dress welcome. Robertson ST, HASTINGS
Brighton - 12 noon The LEVEL BrightonStopTheCuts-owner@yahoogroups.co.uk
Portsmouth - 11.30 Guildhall Square - louismacdonald@ntlworld.com
Plymoouth - 11am Plymouth Guildhall
Meeting WIGAN Trades Council Public 10.30am UNITE office, Wallgate.
Facebook LIKES PAGE
We will keep this group page going for now, and have set up a LIKES page as its becoming challenging to input all information into a weekly bulletin. With a this kind of page we can share information on a daily basis. Your thoughts and suggestions welcome. Please LIKE us :) NSSN - Fighting Cuts and privatisation.
NSSN WEBSITE
The new design is almost ready to go live which will be great to better navigate information and updates.
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