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ANTI-CUTS campaigners are calling on MSPs, council leaders and councillors to invest in public services and communities in the Scottish Budget this week.
People’s Assembly Scotland has published its own spending manifesto that takes a stand against austerity’s affects on health and social care, education and public-sector workers’ wages.
The group points out that many MSPs and councillors were elected on anti-austerity manifestos, saying: “Words without the actions to back them up is nothing but posturing and political opportunism of the worst kind.”
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP