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West End Extra - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 18 April 2008
 
Labouring under false promises for 11 years

• NEW Labour’s attacks on working people have been unrelenting – the privatisation of our public services, cuts in real pay and conditions and a total failure to repeal the Tory anti-trade union laws.
In 11 years of Labour government Britain has become more unequal and more dominated by unaccountable and unelected private firms.
April 24 will see hundreds of thousands of teachers, lecturers and civil servants taking strike action and beginning to co-ordinate a fightback against these cuts.
These workers deserve all our support on their picket lines, at their demonstration and at their rallies.
As trade unionists in Camden and central London, we need a political alternative to the neo-liberal consensus of New Labour, the Tories and the Lib-Dems.
For too long our support and funding for Labour has been rewarded with a kick in the teeth.
If you oppose neo-liberalism and war, and share our belief that another way is possible, based on solidarity and justice, then join us in creating an alternative.
Mark Serwotka (general secretary of PCS civil servants union), Lindsey German (convenor of Stop the War Coalition) and Jane Loftus (president of CWU postal workers union) will be speaking at a rally supporting the Left List on April 24 at 6.30pm at the Conway Hall.
Mandy Berger
Co-convener, Camden Housing & Adult Social Care, UNISON
Andrew Baisley
Membership Secretary & Learning Rep, Camden NUT
Matt Saywell
Treasurer, Holborn GMB
Val Pearman
Branch Secretary, British Library PCS
Anna Owens
Branch Organiser, Euston PCS
Jim Wolfreys
President, King’s College UCU
Merlin Reader
Deputy Area Rep,
Mount Pleasant CWU
Phoebe Watkins
Co-convener, Camden Housing & Adult Social Care, UNISON
Sandy Nicoll
Branch Secretary, SOAS UNISON
Sean Wallis
Branch Secretary, UCL UCU
Clare Solomon
President, SOAS
Students Union
Liz Wheatley


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