Statement on the recent riots agreed at last ACN meeting:
Whatever we think of either the actions or causes of the recent riots
across the country, we do know they happened in areas of massive youth
unemployment and to communities facing cuts to youth services and
reduced accessed to education, as well as rising police repression.
We demand:
1. And end to police repression:
End "Stop and Search", disarm the police, and oppose increases to
police powers, including curfews, rubber bullets and water cannon.
As well as cuts in legal aid
2. Fight poverty and inequality:
oppose cuts to public services, decent funding for youth provision and
facilities
Restore grants and maintenance allowance for students
Decent homes for all, create more council housing
Trade Unions should organise the unemployed
trade Unions should fight job losses and not allow cuts by agreeing to
voluntary redundancies - every lost job is a lost service
3. For a labour movement inquiry into the causes of the riots
Agreed by ACN meeting 10 August 2011
Other local and national groups and trade unions have agreed similar statements like sunderlandagainstthecuts and lewisham anti cuts alliance and Stratford RMT branch
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