Today's Fightback

Camden council spending march

LONDON: Trade unionists and local residents will gather outside Camden Town Hall on Wednesday December 1 from 6pm as the Council's Labour cabinet considers proposals to slash more than £82.5 million from council spending over the next three years.

Nearly 1,000 council jobs are under threat, with rents on council properties due to jump by more than 7 per cent.

The protest has been called by Camden Trades Council with the backing of Camden Unison, the NUT and Holborn & St Pancras Constituency Labour Party.

Students mount roaring protest

CARLISLE: Students angry at government proposals to raise university tuition fees took their campaign to Carlisle MP John Stevenson on Saturday.

Around 40 of them mounted a noisy demonstration outside the Tory MP's office in St Mary's Gate.

The protesters unfurled a banner which read: "We won't stand for a rise in tuition fees."

And many carried placards with slogans such as "Vote 4 your people not 4 your party" and "No ifs, no buts, no education cuts."

Council curbs school walkouts

BRIGHTON: Head teachers are being urged to stop children leaving school for a second mass demonstration against education cuts.

Thousands of people are expected to march to Hove Town Hall in Norton Road tomorrow in the second protest in less than a week.

Brighton and Hove City Council urged school staff today to try to talk pupils out of leaving lessons.

On Wednesday, 3,000 people, including almost 1,300 secondary school pupils, took part in marches and disruption in the centre of Brighton.

Essex anti-cuts brigade to meet

CHELMSFORD: Local trade unions organisation Chelmsford Against The Cuts, will be holding a public meeting entitled How Do We Fight the Cuts? at 7.30pm on December 10 at the Friends Meeting House, 82 Rainsford Road, Essex.