The march passes Fortnum & Masons, the secret target of UK Uncut The youth wing of the demo in Oxford Street Nearly half a million of us marched in London, yesterday, challenging the unelected coalition government’s policy of slashing public services. Well, it would have been ‘challenging’ had anyone on the platform laid out a […]
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Last night’s Camden Council budget meeting A lively 1,200-strong march from Mornington Crescent through the backstreets of Camden to the Town Hall was followed by a protest as cowardly council held their final budget meeting behind closed doors. A thick yellow line of police prevented the protesters entering the public gallery meaning that the vote
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‘Go Wisconsin. You Are fighting For All Of Us’. So says Chicago trade unonist Clancy Segal in the Guardian today. And he is totally right. So appalling is the onslaught of capital on labour that even the police have joined the 600 protesters occupying the State Capitol building, while outside thousands of workers brave the
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So it’s payoff time for Ramsay McClegg. The Tories have finally thrown a bone to their human shield allies in the form of a referendum on the Alternative Vote (AV), to take place on May 5th. In return for services rendered, the Lib Dems get a long-awaited shot at an electoral system that’s supposed to
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Har, har! Garbo speaks! Ed Miliband’s team have announced that Glorious Leader will be addressing the subject of Tory cuts at the TUC demo but will not march with the march in March. And Baroness Warsi has a fit like Linda Blair in full Exorcist mode with term-of-the-day, ‘deficit deniers’, flying 360 degrees. That’s some
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I can’t be sure, but I think I heard cartoonist Martin Rowson refer to the late Labour MP Tom Driberg, in one of his anecdotes last night, as a ‘fellationist’. He might have said ‘fallacionist’ but as it’s Rowson doing the telling, I’m assuming it was the former. It takes a special kind of genius
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