March 28, 2011
Around half a million people* from every corner of the UK attended the national TUC anti-cuts ‘March for An Alternative’ on Saturday 26 March in central London. It was believed to be the second largest demonstration in UK history**. The Haringey Alliance for Public Services had distributed 50,000 special leaflets in the week leading up […]
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March 28, 2011
Letter to UK Uncut members by members of the Solidarity Federation in the aftermath of the disorder on the March 26 TUC organised March for the Alternative. We’re writing this to you to try and prevent the anti-cuts struggle being split up and weakened by the media. We are anarchists (well, anarcho-syndicalists, technically) – a […]
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March 2, 2011
This is the list of cuts that Haringey council voted through on Thursday 24 February. Even a quick glance makes it obvious that these cuts will hit the most vulnerable the hardest. YOUNG PEOPLE * Youth Service budget to be cut by 75 per cent to around £650,000, saving £1.96million by 2013. Eight youth […]
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February 25, 2011
An extremely angry protest of 300 local residents, trade unionists and representatives of community groups left councillors in no doubt as to how much opposition their cuts programme will face. Demonstrators occupied the council chamber and held their own people’s budget meeting before they were forcibly, and often violently, removed by riot police, who physically […]
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February 24, 2011
Councils all over the country are facing massive opposition as they attempt to pass through huge cuts to public services. Tonight it was the turn of Lambeth, and over 200 protestors took over the council meeting and occupied the town hall, holding “People’s Hearings”. Tomorrow night is Haringey’s turn. So if you live or work […]
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February 18, 2011
Local anti-cuts protestors “bailed in” to the Wood Green branch of Barclay’s Bank to protest against the government cuts agenda. About half of the 30 or so local residents occupied the bank and turned it into a home – with rugs, chairs and cushions – to bring attention to the number of people that will […]
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