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Norfolk Coalition Against the Cuts

George Deacon
20th September 2010 at 07:55
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On Saturday NCAC organised a stall in the City Centre. Hastily convened a handful turned out on a bright sunny morning and were well rewarded for the effort. People from all over the County lined up to sign our petition and join the fight. In a 2 minute conversation 3 care workers agreed to join a union (Unison) in their workplace and help organise a meeting on their estate. It is clear from what many said that at this stage the role for the anti-cuts movement is to simply get organised and spread the word. A series of estate based meetings would be easy to organise. In much the same way as the All Britain Anti Poll Tax Federation the anti-cuts movement could quickly organise working class resistance to the cuts through estate based anti-cuts unions linked to coordinated action of the unions. The one acts as a support to the other and vice versa. We need to give the unions the confidence to unite and fight these attacks while the unions need to know that they have the active support of society as a whole. We need to learn the lessons from not only from the defeats the movement has suffered but also its successes. The fight against the Thatcher’s Tories and the Poll Tax did not result in a defeat for Capitalism but it did show how to effectively organise a campaign into which the ideas of Socialism could be combined with an effective fight against a vicious reactionary right wing attack on the working class. In Norwich the anti-cuts movement has received a warm welcome from the folk of Norfolk. We ran out of material and everyone was buoyed up by the experience agreeing to make the Saturday Stall a regular slot in the diary.

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