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Occupy London: highlighting capitalism’s offensive against the 99 per cent
By Andrew Williams
Occupy London Stock Exchange (Occupy LSX), in just three weeks, has demonstrated it is an effective dynamic new movement, driving forward a progressive campaign opposing the current assault on the population’s living standards.
Several hundred people are participating and have set up tents for a continuous vigil at the heart of Britain’s principal financial centre. They are taking inspiration from the global movement that has been occupying public spaces in over 900 cities since the Wall Street protest started seven weeks ago.
Occupy London Stock Exchange Rally and March: ‘We are the 99%’
2pm Saturday 5th November – Steps of St Pauls London We stand for progressive alternatives to making the majority pay for a crisis they did not create. The Rally starts at 2pm [Read more]
It is cuts and deprivation that caused the riots
By Jane West
The Tories have spent the days after the inner city riots tore through London and other cities desperately trying to ward off any responsibility that might attach to their government’s policies for these uprisings. Their mantra to the media has been simple: any attempt to consider the reasons for the riots is in and of itself an excuse for criminality and constitutes a refusal to wholeheartedly condemn the violence.
Murdoch: cheerleader of the neo-liberal right brought low
By Jane West
It is entirely good news to see the convulsions shaking the British end of Murdoch’s global media empire and to bid farewell to the unlamented News of the World. Murdoch has of course created a stable of publications and news channels that are cheerleaders for an extremely right-wing politics, both in the Britain and the US.
Solidarity with striking workers – hands off pensions
By Stephen MacAvoy
Today (30 June), hundreds of thousands of teachers, lecturers, government office workers, job centre staff, air traffic controllers and many other public sector workers are striking against the Tory government’s attacks on their living standards with cuts to pay and pensions.