In terms of keeping the action going there seems to be little concrete coming from the unions. The PCS has called a months overtime ban, and is relying on a legal route in the meantime on the pension question and is upping its tax justice campaign. All unions are to a greater or lesser degree looking for opportunities to ballot for action, usually on pay or pensions.
Certainly the summer needs to see the impetus continued. This means supporting the unions in ballots for and actual industrial action. It means militants in the unions pressing hard and arguing for action. The anti cuts groups need to continue organising meetings and demonstrations, but more co-ordination is needed, on a Wales-wide level for a start. The groups need to open up to encompass far more people, including the unemployed and pensioners. It would be better if anti-cuts groups became community defence groups with interaction with the environmental movement. Climate change is still a huge challenge, and is exacerbated by the cuts in its effect on working class communities as the race for resources takes its toll, and the cuts leave communities vulnerable.
