Belfast Protest Against Cuts to Public Services

antrim | worker & community struggles and protests | event notice Friday June 11, 2010 11:14 by Gary Mulcahy - Socialist Party garymulsp at hotmail dot com

European-wide Week of Protest & Solidarity

NO CUTS TO PUBLIC SERVICES
Protest: 5-6pm Thursday 24 June
European Commission Office, 74-76 Dublin Rd, Belfast

ENDORSED BY: FIRE BRIGADES UNION - I.N.T.O. NORTHERN REGION - SOCIALIST PARTY - WORKERS PARTY - ORGANISE - SAVE MID-ULSTER HOSPITAL - WE WONT PAY CAMPAIGN - YOUTH AGAINST RACISM plus many others

NO CUTS TO BAILOUT THE BANKS - DEFEND JOBS, WAGES & SERVICES

As part of the European-wide week of protest & solidarity initiated by the Left MEPs, a protest has been called by many groups in Belfast on 24 June.

The point of the protest is to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with fellow workers and communities across Europe who are also coming under attack in the form of job losses, massive public sector cuts and real reductions in wages. The economic crisis was created by the speculation and profiteering of hedge funds, big business and banks. It is they who should pay for this crisis, not ordinary people who have already suffered enough.

The protest is also to take a stand against the cuts being implemented in Northern Ireland. Already hospitals, schools, colleges and other essential services across the North are facing closure and/or crippling cuts. The Tory/Lib-Dem Budget to be announced on 22 June will contain even further cuts which will result in more job losses and the destruction of services which workers, the unemployed and vulnerable people rely on. We believe these cuts must be resisted. We call on all trade union, socialist and community activists to endorse our protest by e-mailing garymulsp@hotmail.com, and to help in any way you can to advertise the protest.