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DEMONSTRATE 

AGAINST THE TORY ANDLIB DEM CONFERENCES

Remember 3 dates. 

Firstly, October 20th –

 the day that the ConDem

coalition announced their

spending plans and declared

war on ordinary people from

public sector workers to

students to pensioners andworking-class communities.

The bankers may have caused

 the crisis by taking Britain to the

verge of bankcruptcy while they

racked up massive prots but

Cameron & Clegg have decided

 that it is us who must pay the

price. Their cuts package of 

 £81billion threatens everything 

 that working-class people have

  taken for granted – the NHS,comprehensive education,

public services and the welfare

state.

Secondly, November 10th –

when over 50,000 students

from schools, FE colleges and

universities marched in London

  to oppose the huge

rises in tuition fees and the cuts

i9n Educational Maintenance

Allowance (EMA). This set off a

magnicent movement of young 

people which saw hundreds of 

 thousands protest, occupy and

strike against the attacks on

education. This has shown the

government but perhaps more

importantly millions of workers

  that it’s possible to ght back

against the cuts.

5 March, 10:30am, CityHall, Cathays Park, Cardiff

Called by: Cardiff Against the Cuts, PCS Wales,

Cardiff County TUC, Wales Shop Stewards Network 

& Action Against Cuts Cardiff

8/7/2019 Demonstrate against the Tory and Lib Dem conferences - NSSN Anti-Cuts leaflet

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Finally, March 26th – the

TUC demonstration on

March 26th in London.

The NSSN is working to

help make this the biggest

  trade union march for years.

Hopefully, hundreds of 

 thousands or even more will ll

  the streets of London to send

a clear message to the Tories

& LibDems – we are not going 

 to accept your cuts and pay the

price for your crisis.

However, the trade union

leaders have to ensure that

  this demo isn’t the end of the

anti-cuts movement but a new

beginning. Marching alongside

hundreds of thousands of fellow

workers will show everyone

 that they aren’t alone but part

of a movement that has huge

potential power. It should be

used as a platform to organise

co-ordinated strike action in

a one-day public sector strike

as a massive step towards a

one-day general strike which

could unite public and private

sector workers with students

and young people which could

shatter the ConDems and their

cuts package.

The NSSN has launched an anti-

cuts campaign to unite workers,

 their families and communities

and young people to oppose

ALL cuts. We reject the idea

 that we should pick and choose

whose job is more important

  than anyone else’s. This is a

recipe for division. We call on

all Labour councils to refuse

  to implement the Cameron &

Clegg’s cuts and are prepared

 to work with them and anyone

else in the anti-cuts movement

who resist the attacks on our

class. These councils should

draw on their reserves and

even borrow to maintain jobs

and services and any debts

should be written off by an

incoming Labour government.

The prospect of resistance

on this scale – following the

example of the Labour councils

in Liverpool & Lambeth in the

1980s in uniting councillors,

  the council workforce and

communities would make the

cuts inoperable.

This isn’t a strong government

but we need to organise a mass

anti-cuts movement locallyand nationally with the unions

at the head to stop them in

 their tracks. Twenty years ago,

Thatcher got the poll tax passed

in Parliament but 18 million

people refused to pay it and the

 tax was scrapped and the ‘Iron

Lady’ was turned to rust. Come

 to the demonstration in Cardiff 

on March 5th to show both the

Tories and LibDems that it is

  they who will pay the price for

 the crisis not us!

DEMONSTRATEAGAINST THE TORY 

AND LIB DEMCONFERENCES

5 March, 10:30am, City Hall,Cathays Park, Cardiff