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Cabinet full of millionaires

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Transport minister Philip Hammond sits on a £9 million fortune. Chancellor George “Gideon” Osborne has £4.3 million—and is dodging inheritance tax. David Cameron has £3.2 million. Lib Dem Nick Clegg is worth more than £1 million. They’re not “all in it together” with us

Winning the Alternative to Cuts

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PUBLIC MEETING

Winning the Alternative to Cuts

Student protests over fees won concessions on tuition fees and created splits in the Con-Dem Coalition.  Tens of thousand of workers, students and public service users have supported local campaigns against cuts, with some small but significant successes. As the movement against cuts grows around the country questions are being raised about what kind of action is now needed to permanently stop the Con-Dem Coalition attack.  Join the debate about how we can build the most effective resistance possible.

Speakers:
Jane Loftus - President CWU
Alex Gordon - President RMT
Mark Bergfield - NUS executive
Caroline Glendinning - Branch sec Oxford City UNISON (invited)
Tracey Rogers - Joint Branch Oxon and Bucks PCS (invited)
Anu Prashar - Oxon County UNISON (pc) will chair the meeting

7.30 pm 10th March Oxford Town Hall

'OAPs to bear brunt of county cuts'

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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.

Read more: 'OAPs to bear brunt of county cuts'

EMA to be cut

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Cuttting the EMA is a cruel attack on young people working hard at their education.

Plans to cut the Education Maintainance Allowance werea announced in the comprehensive spending review. EMA are means-tested allowances of £10, £20 and £30 paid to 14-to-19 year olds who stay in education and come from families where annual household income is below £30,810. The Allowance, paid only for a high level of attendance and effort, is vital for students having to pay bus fares and buy their lunch. Cutting EMA will nly make it harder for young people to stay on in education.

• Those receiving the maximum £30 payment make up 80% of all recipients and their household income is below £20,817 per year.
• A survey carried out by the NUS in 2008 found, 65% of participants on the £30 rate stated that they could not continue to study without EMA.
• Research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies shows attainment at GCSE and A-level by EMA recipients has risen by 5 to 7 percentage points since its introduction, and by even more for those living in the most deprived neighbourhoods.

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Who we are

Oxfordshire Anti Cuts Alliance was set up to unite trade unions, campaign groups and anti cuts campaigns across Oxfordshire to build the strongest possible resistance to the the policies of austerity that are being forced on people as the solution to recession and the crisis in the global banking system.

From our launch in October 2010 the OACA has helped to mobilise thousands of people across Oxfordshire in opposition to cuts and other austerity measures, including privatisation of the NHS, cuts in funding for education including tuition fee rises,  compulsory work-for-nothing schemes, and attacks on benefits for the unemployed, sick and disabled.  At the same time we have pointed towards solutions - including calling on the government to act against tax evasion and use the £100 billion unpaid tax to be used to fund a welfare state to protect the vulnerable and for the creation of jobs and homes. 

Oxfordshire Anti-Cuts Alliance is supported by: Oxford & District Trades Council, Oxfordshire Unison Health,  Unite BMW SE625, Unite CYWU, Oxfordshire NUT, Oxfordshire NASUWT, Unison Oxfordshire County, Unison Oxford City,  PCS Oxon & Bucks DWP, Oxford NUJ, UCU   Oxford & Cherwell Valley College, UCU Ruskin College, Ruskin College Student’s Union, Oxford Keep Our NHS Public, Oxford People’s Charter Campaign, Oxford Save Our Services, Oxford Right to Work, Oxford Coalition of Resistance, Oxford for Peace and Justice, Oxford CND, Oxford Stop the War Coalition, Oxford Campaign Against Climate Change, New Internationalist.

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