Fightback Thursday shows we can challenge Brown’s attacks on pay
Some 400,000 workers went on strike on 24 April, ‘Fightback Thursday’. Teachers, lecturers, civil service workers and 20,000 Birmingham council workers came out.
The issue of pay has united workers from different trade unions to fight back together. But pay is just one factor fuelling growing anger across the country.
The strike took place as the government is in disarray, after its attacks on working class people have produced a level of anger that means Fightback Thursday was the biggest blow yet to Gordon Brown’s attempt to impose below inflation pay on millions of public sector workers.
» SW coverage
Brown to blame for election rout
Gordon Brown has reaped what New Labour sowed. This week’s elections saw the crisis-ridden government battered — losing the London mayor to Tory Boris Johnson and polling Labour’s worst results in 40 years in council elections across England and Wales. Read our analysis of this, the success of the BNP and the squeezing of the left.
» SW leaflet after election [285kb PDF]
» Brown to blame for New Labour's election rout
» Anger as Nazi BNP grabs London assembly seat
» Left vote squeezed by main parties
» Respect website
Love Music Hate Racism Carnival success
100,000 flocked to the anti-fascist carnival on Sunday 27 April to see acts including The Good, the Bad and the Queen, Roll Deep, Jay Sean and Hard-Fi.
» SW report
Marxism 2008
Join thousands of people for a feast of political debate and cultural events this July in central London.
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