Across Europe on Wednesday 29 September public service workers and users are marching and demonstrating to defend public services against cuts, and defend jobs
Max Watson, chair of the UNISON (support workers') branch at London Metropolitan University, is the UNISON United Left candidate for the Higher Education General Seat on the union's NEC.
London firefighters are to be balloted for strike action this week after their bosses began the process of mass sackings in a dispute over shift patterns.
To defeat the cuts, the labour movement will need industrial action, organised by workers in particular sectors to resist cuts in jobs and services in their particular sector.
At its congress in Manchester (13-16 September) the TUC voted to "encourage unions to use the impact of the Spending Review to build local campaign groups..."
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