Nov 10th demo: Even more pictures
Here are even more pictures from the demo called by the NUS and UCU on November 10th in london against cuts in education
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Nov 10th Demo: More Pictures
Here are some more pictures from the Nov 10th demo against cuts in education.
Over 50,00 demonstrate in London against education cuts
Yestersday’s NUS/UCU demo in London against attacks on further education
attracted over 50,000 mainly students, who came in their numbers from
all over the country. Many of these were young people demonstrating for
the first time ever. It will not be the last. As the attacks start to
bite, more and more youth will come into activity and draw the political
conclusions.
Fight Cuts in Education and Public Services! Nationalise the Banks!
If anyone still
had any illusions that “we are all in this together”, the Browne Report
and the
Comprehensive Spending Review quickly shattered them. By their actions
this
Coalition has shown it is a government of the rich, by the rich, for the
rich.
USA analysis: The Midterm elections
In the recent midterm elections, the
Republicans made a dramatic comeback after their electoral routing just
two years ago. They gained several governorships, seats in the Senate,
and took full control of the US House of Representatives. How was this
possible?
Fighting the cuts means fighting for socialism
On a sunny Saturday afternoon in
Manchester, around 70 people gathered in the Friends’ Meeting House to debate
how best to fight the onslaught of cuts this Tory government is about to
unleash.
Where is the Venezuelan revolution going?
A contribution to the discussion on property and the tasks of the revolution.
The September elections in Venezuela have posed some
serious questions before the Bolivarian Revolution. The opposition has
organized a noisy campaign in the media to present themselves as
"winners", despite the fact that they lost. What is the purpose of this
campaign?
Fighting The Cuts
As the scale of the cuts start to sink in, we look at the background to this crisis and ask – why has this happened?
Notes of a traveller in France: “here we go, here we go”
Comrades on holiday in France get a taste of the protests taking place there!
Support NUJ members fighting for fair pensions at BBC
NUJ members at the BBC have voted by 70% to reject the latest offer
from the management on pension changes and are intending to take action
by striking for 48 hours on 5 and 6 November and again on 15 and 16
November with further dates to be named in the coming days. Here is the
text of an appeal now being circulated.
France: a general strike needed to defeat the government
On Friday, October 22, finally the
French government managed to get the pensions reform passed through the
Senate. The increasingly unpopular government of Sarkozy, faced with an
unprecedented movement of strikes, demonstrations, road blockades, mass
pickets and general assemblies, hoped that this, together with the
beginning of the All Saints school holidays, would bring the mass
movement to a halt. This does not seem to be happening, however.
Public vs Private
Since the days of the Thatcher government, public sector workers have
had to live with the repeatedly stated ‘fact’ that the private sector is
supposed to be better, more efficient and cheaper at providing services
than the public one. This was the stated logic behind decades of
privatisation and outsourcing.