Scottish Communists

"What is to be done - where now after November 30th Strike?" Named after a popular Lenin pamplet on tactics, this was a Communist Party meeting with other Left forces, building on the success of the united trade union movement action in November 2011, which saw 20,000 march in Glasgow City centre.

Across the UK, millions of people struck and marched in dozens of towns and cities.

That action, co-ordinated with 30 other unions, was a powerful display of united trade union opposition to unfair and unnecessary cuts in pensions and of the depth of support for the alternative to the government's damaging economic policies.

The action has won growing public support and Ministers have undoubtedly been pushed further onto the defensive. Their wild claims about the strike and their misleading comments on public sector pensions have been exposed for what they are: desperate attempts to deflect attention from their unjust cuts in hard working public servants’ pensions to pay for a deficit caused by the greed of the banks.

Davie Brockett, NEC of Unite the Union

Tommy Morrison, Secretary of Clydebank Trades Council