Campaigners take anti-cuts struggle up a level

The Llanelli Anti-Cuts Campaign, set up by the Llanelli Trades Council to defend services has won backing from trade unionists, young people, pensioners and community campaigners  fighting hard to save Caemaen and St Paul’s care homes.

In the next 10 days the campaign will be supporting and organising two key events to highlight the need to fight  all cuts being carried out by local councils and central government.

On Wednesday 27 April at 11am, anti-cuts campaigners will go with Rhian Barr of the campaign to save Noddfa Teilo Day Centre in Llandeilo to hand in a 2,000-signature to Carmarthenshire Council Leader Meryl  Gravell.

The handing in of the petition will take place at County Hall Carmarthen and media representatives including photographers are invited to attend.

It is expected that Rhian and anti-cuts campaigners will be joined by people from other threatened day centres and trade unionists.

A few days later Llanelli will have its first May March in some time when it is expected hundreds will join a demonstration against the cuts called by Llanelli Anti-Cuts Campaign and Llanelli Trades Council.

The march has won the support of major unions such as PCS, UNISON, GMB, UNITE, RMT and NUJ. It will assemble at Llanelli Town Hall at 10am and march around the town centre to rally outside Boots in the town centre.

There will be speakers from all the main unions and Chris Baugh, the assistant general secretary of civil servants’ union PCS , is down as the keynote speaker.

John Willock from the Llanelli anti-cuts campaign said: “These two events  will give  confidence to the people of Llanelli and Carmarthenshire that the public-sector cuts can and will be beaten by a mass campaign of resistance.”