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Don't let Tory Cuts Wreck Lives - demonstrate

Ian Mckendrick | 18.11.2010 12:28 | Public sector cuts | Workers' Movements | Oxford

DEMONSTRATE
Sat 27th November
Assemble 11.30 am. Manzil Way, Cowley Road
March to rally in Bonn Square

Called by Oxfordshire Anti Cuts Alliance


What the Con-Dem government cuts mean for us.
The Con-Dem government wants to make us pay for the negligent behaviour of the banks by cutting £87 billion off public services.
The cuts will wreck millions of people’s lives through:
 mass job cuts
 service closures for the most vulnerable
 cuts in housing and disability benefits and tax credits
 Forcing people to work for pittance wages
 Forcing young people to give up their education or face life long debt.
 Making people work longer for smaller pensions

If not stopped the cuts will decimate the welfare state for future generations and risk plunging the British economy into further difficulties and another round of cuts.
The government claims cuts are necessary to reduce the debt created by bailing out the banks. Yet this debt is a small fraction of what it was after WWII when the NHS was formed and millions of council homes were built.

There is an alternative.
We could raise revenue by:
 progressive taxation
 plugging tax loopholes
 Collecting the billions of pounds of unpaid corporation tax
 cancelling Trident

If governments can spend money bailing out negligent bankers it could boost the economy and prevent mass unemployment by creating a million green jobs.
Is it possible to change the government’s plans?
Absolutely. A mass campaign stopped the unjust poll tax and we could create a campaign on the same scale again. Around the country campaigns have sprung into action to fight for an alternative to the cuts. With hundreds of public meetings, rallies and protests.

In Oxford alone 400 people supported the Oxford Anti-Cuts Alliance protest on the day of the October spending review, and a thousand Oxford students took to the streets in protest against increasing university fees.
A glimpse of the potential campaign to stop the cuts was seen when 50,000 students protested nationally against fees last week
Across Europe millions have joined action against the cuts. We need your help to build a mass campaign to stop the cuts here.

Oxford Anti-Cuts Alliance is supported by: Oxford & District Trades Council, Unite BMW SE625, Oxfordshire NUT, Oxfordshire NASUWT, Unison Oxfordshire County branch, Unison Oxford City branch, Unison Oxfordshire Health, PCS Oxon & Bucks DWP, Oxford NUJ, UCU Oxford & Cherwell Valley College, UCU Ruskin College, Ruskin College Student’s Union, Oxford Keep Our NHS Public, Oxford People’s Charter Campaign, Oxford Save Our Services, Oxford Right to Work, Oxford Coalition of Resistance, Oxford for Peace and Justice, Oxford CND, Oxford Stop the War, New Internationalist.

Oxfordshire Anti Cuts Alliance demonstration materals:
Stall banner  http://oxfordrighttowork.org.uk/images/stories/PDF/OACAstallbanner.pdf
Thin poster  http://oxfordrighttowork.org.uk/images/stories/PDF/OACAposterA3.pdf
Thick poster  http://oxfordrighttowork.org.uk/images/stories/PDF/OACAposterA4.pdf
Leaflet  http://oxfordrighttowork.org.uk/images/stories/PDF/OACAleaflet1.pdf

Ian Mckendrick
- e-mail: ian[at]oxfordactivists.co.uk
- Homepage: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154323604611687#!/group.php?gid=160972127265494

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Tory Cuts

19.11.2010 08:20

Frankley I will not come within a mile of any event or group protesting against 'Tory' cuts. It implies a leftie Labour/SWP promoting campaign. In the scale of real politics you could not slip a Rizla between any of those vicious, self interested scroungers who go and sit in parliament to rule over us for a fat salary no matter what party they are currently allied to.

Gulliver


Sit on your purist arse

21.11.2010 20:26

we'll come for you later and sort you

Landilino


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