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All out on December 9th!- School students fight cuts

Walk out on 9th December – 1.30pm Thurs 9th Dec, Belfast City Hall 150 school students walked out from schools in Belfast today to show their opposition to increased tuition fees and cuts to Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA). The protest comes ahead of an anticipated mass walkout in Belfast on the day of the vote in Westminster.

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December 2, 2010

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Students from Fortwilliam, Hazelwood and other schools marched into the city centre to oppose the recommendations of the Browne review and any cuts to education including the EMA which thousands of students depend on to stay in school.

This protest is part of the build to an all-Belfast protest called from a Facebook group. Socialist Youth and Youth Fight for Jobs and Education are supporting the call for walk-outs from schools across Belfast and encouraging workers and young people to get down to the protest.

To join the facebook group click here.

Protest:
Belfast City Hall
1.30pm Thurs 9th December
Education is a right not a privilege

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Stop the cuts, bring down the government

All out on 6 November – for a 24 hour General Strike!

By Stephen Boyd, Socialist Party

There can be no doubting that Ireland is a country of ‘Them and Us’. For them: NAMA’s (National Assets Management Agency – a new body set up by the government to preside over the buying up of bad debts from Ireland’s banks) €54 billion bank bailout, €216,000 expenses for ceann-comhairle (parliament speaker), John O’Donoghue. For us: pay cuts, social welfare cuts, child benefit cuts, health cuts, education cuts and new taxes. €4 billion worth of cuts this December are to hit the quality of life of every working class man, woman and child!

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US Economy Slowing – Double Dip Fears Grow

In the past few weeks there’s been a noticeable shift in tone in the business pages and journals. Their confidence in the so-called “recovery” has faded, and has been replaced by anxiety.

Why the glum shift? “The economic news – on growth, consumers, housing and manufacturing was bad enough before the jobs report for July [announcing 131,000 jobs had been cut].... The report leaves no doubt that a slowdown is well under way,” (New York Times 8/9/10).

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Norway: Right wing terrorist massacre at youth camp

How should the workers’ movement respond?

Right wing extremist Anders Behring Brevik’s massacre of young people at the camping island of Utøya, outside Norway’s capital, Oslo, shocked and horrified people everywhere. It was an act of hardly imaginable wanton cruelty. In cold blood, Behring Brevik shot dead 85 mainly young people - teenagers mainly - and wounded 67 more. Four more potential victims are still missing. Today, shock and grief dominates Norway. Many questions remain unanswered. What is behind right wing terrorism? How should the workers’ movement and socialists respond?