There will be some anti cuts activity this Saturday morning - contact for details. Also the Anti Cuts Campaign will be meeting this Saturday 22nd at 1.30pm in the Doddridge Centre, St James.
The local campaign to work for improved wages and conditions and to unionise Eastern European Workers needs assistance in translating leaflets and with advice (particularly polish and russian).
Defend Council Housing needs volunteers/supporters to extend the campaign into the neighbouring county after the successful activity locally in forcing the privatisers to back off in the town. We also recently picketed the housing minister when she was shown around the twin towers that were sold off by the local New Labour Apparatchiks for £1. We have now calculated that the Association that bought them will recoup £4.5 million from the sale of the top four floors, get £500,000 a year from the raised rents on the remainder of the flats and now have flats with a capital value of £12.5 million. Meanwhile the housing available for rent has gone down by the 50 flats sold off. The privatisers looked very annoyed and embarrassed as we gave it them through loudhailers but New Labour has no shame.
