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A Unifying, Mass Movement Grows Against Austerity In Manchester and Across UK
Privatization of Britain's National Health Service has soared by 500% in the past year – one reason that tens of thousands of protesters are in the streets voicing outrage about Tory government policies.
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Stakes Heighten for Europe's Economic Future As Left-Leaning Greece Prepares to Elect New Regime
A small European nation is on the verge of standing up to financiers that are literally strangling its economic surplus and imposing draconian cuts in the same of austerity, as standards of living have plummeted in the past five years.
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Why 5,000 U.K. Police Officers Could Be Off the Job Due to Austerity Cuts
As unruly protests by New York City police continue to rile U.S. media, police officers in the U.K. are finding themselves on the austerity frontlines with thousands of jobs threatened in the coming years.
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British Universities In Revolt As Nov. 19 Protests Push for Free Education Across U.K.
Paying fees to attend university turns students into consumers and universities into privatized businesses – as the purpose of learning changes from a broad social good to become [one] based on creating profits.”
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Red Cross Launches Emergency Food Aid In U.K. for First Time Since WWII
Amid harsh welfare cuts, the economic downturn, and with winter fast approaching, the charity has been asked to step in and help Britain's starving families.
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The Movement Returns: Dispatch From A Democratic Occupation of London
The right to protest is a fundamental human right, especially in Britain.
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Outraged English Towns: Save Lollipop Patrols and Keep Our Children Safe
Punishing local cuts are leaving communities up in arms as the removal of vital school road patrol service – known as the lollipop ladies – could go into effect.
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Vowing to "Paralyze This Island," Puerto Rico Unions Call General Strike Against Austerity
Union leader Pedro Irene Maymi called on islanders to stop paying their electricity and water bills as protesters marched on Plaza Las Américas, the largest shopping mall in the Caribbean.
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Outrageous Decline in British Healthcare A Result of Cuts and Privatization
How fiscally responsible is it for the government to subsidize big banks with taxpayer money while insisting it has to make billions in cuts to the National Health Service?
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Worker Militancy Gaining Momentum As British Firefighters Strike Over Pensions
Firefighters across the U.K. are heading to the picket lines to protest changes to their pensions – the latest unrest in Britain over government austerity measures.
