In the UK the movement is approaching a pivotal stage with 3 million public sector workers moving towards strike action against a 15% cut in pensions, plans to increase contributions by up to 70%, and plans to make nurses, teachers and civil servants work until they are 68 years old.  Over 10,000 public sector workers across Oxfordshire are preparing for Nov 30th.

Public sector workers are rightly angry that they are being singled out to pay off the deficit as none of the funds raised from the pension cuts will go towards pensions but will go to paying off the banks.  This plan to take billions of pounds of public sector workers comes at a time when they have already had a 5% cut in wages due to a wage feeze and rising prices and bankers awarded themselves £7 billion in bonuses.

• Make a donation to strikers hardship funds.  Cheques can be made payable to Oxford & District Trades Union Council (mark "for strike hardship fund") and sent c/o R. Kelsall, PCS Office, E1A LCS, Bicester, OX25 0LP. (Collection sheet for hardship fund will be available shortly on the OACA website.
• Help public sector workers get the truth out about the governments attack on their pensions by talking to friends, family and colleagues.  Information on the attacks can be found at union websites including UNITE PCS UNISON NUT UCU
• Join us on OACA stalls to promote anti cuts activities to the public (mail back for details if you can help)

21 coaches carried over 1,000 people from across Oxfordshire to London for the national TUC March against cuts on March 26.  Many more made their own way there. 

An estimated 500,000 people from across UK trade unions, campaigns and members of the public, angry about cuts showed the possibliluty of a mass resistance to plans to wreck our public services.

More an more people are realising that Cameron and Clegg are lying when they say the cuts are necessary.

For most of the second half of last century the UK public debt was much higher than it is currently and we could afford the NHS and to build millions of council homes.

The cuts are not about how much money we have in the country - but about increasing the share of the money controlled by the rich - at our expense.

To boost the profits of their rich friends in the banks and corportations the Tories want to sacrifice millions of our jobs, slash wages, pensions and benefits, and devastate our public services and force them to be run for profit at the expense of public need.

The half a million people who marched in London on the national TUC demonstration on March 26th gave a glimpse of the power that can stop the Tories in their tracks.

If all these people took strike action at the same time the government would be forced to back off from it’s plans. Determined strikes could see the government fall.

At the end of June it is hoped that 800,000 workers in the education sector will be taking strike action. Everyone who wants to stop the cuts needs to get behind them, or join them where they can.

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Originally reported in Oxford Mail 24th Feb

COUNCIL chiefs have admitted pensioners, the poor and the disabled face being hit hard by massive cuts.

In a frank assessment of planned £119m savings, Oxfordshire County Council said OAPs were at risk of greater isolation by cuts to social services and libraries.