Protest outside Vodafone, 2pm Saturday 6 November,

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Notts SOS have called a protest outside Vodafone over their huge unpaid tax bill. protestors will gather outside the store on Clumber Street in the City centre at 2pm to say that business should pay tax too.

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Protest outside Vodafone in London

If they paid what they owe many thousands of jobs could be saved, services wouldn't be cut, housing benefit could be extended not slashed. Dozens of such protests have taken place across the coutry and more are planned this weekend. If you are coming, go to our Facebook event page and take a moment to invite your frineds and family. the more people we can get on the demo the more successful it will be, and it raises the profile of Notts SOS and our demo on 20 November.

This is one of the first direct actions against the cuts in Notts. Let's make it a big one!

 

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my opinion

Comment Published: November 02, 2010 18:54 by anarchist

for what it's worth.

I'd still rather have a reduction in my phone bill, than have Vodaphone pay a shit lot of money to the government ;)

Vodafone protests are rather silly

Comment Published: November 02, 2010 19:42 by Reading between the lines

The cuts are driven by ideology, not necessity. The Tories would be making them whether they were needed or not. They want to dismantle the welfare state which they see as an obstacle to the free reign of capital.

Even in the unlikely event that Vodafone heeded these protests and paid up, the cuts would be just as deep. Our rulers would spend the money on war, policing, bailing out banks or some other nonsense, to support the rich and suppress the poor.

I think our time would be better spent trying to save our services directly rather than playing fantasy cuts with Vodafone's loot.

Class war

Comment Published: November 02, 2010 21:56 by Wannabe class warrior

Targeting Vodafone has been a good thing in my opinion, but I think some of the analysis leaves something to be desired.

This isn't about everybody paying their "fair share". This isn't about what the tax Vodafone dodged could have paid for. It's about class war.

There are 23 people in the cabinet. Of them 17 are millionaires (it was 18 until David Laws resigned) and 12 went to public school.

So we have a government of public schoolboys and millionaires making 490,000 people redundant, attacking welfare, slashing housing benefit and destroying public services. And while they're doing that, they're giving their corporate pals multi-billion pound tax breaks.

Protesting Vodafone should be an opportunity to underline the extent to which the cuts are ideologically driven. Anybody going there expecting them to roll over and pay up is missing the point (to say nothing of the fact they are deluded).

Class war? Really?

Comment Published: November 03, 2010 08:32 by Reading between the lines

Is it really class war or is it just a pointless way to sideline dissent and make everyone dispirited? How does standing outside Vodafone handing out leaflets contribute to the class war?

You say that protesters don't really believe that Vodafone are going to pay up but look at the banner that accompanies this article. I think this whole campaign is just playing the conservative "honest, tax-paying citizen" card. What will they be calling for next - the police to arrest Vodafone? Take Vodafone to court? Bring in laws to deal with scrounging companies like Vodafone?

Really? Possibly?

Comment Published: November 03, 2010 09:32 by Wannabe class warrior

Reading...: "You say that protesters don't really believe that Vodafone are going to pay up"

No, I said, "Targeting Vodafone has been a good thing in my opinion, but I think some of the analysis leaves something to be desired."

Maybe try reading what I've actually written *before* reading between the lines.

Protests against Vodafone, as with any other corporate target (McDonalds, Starbucks etc.) are what we make of them. Certainly, I think the trad left have missed an opportunity here, but that doesn't mean we should dismiss this as a tactic out of hand.

Pedantic footnote

Comment Published: November 03, 2010 19:05 by Reading between the lines

"Maybe try reading what I've actually written *before* reading between the lines."

I was responding to "Anybody going there expecting them to roll over and pay up is missing the point (to say nothing of the fact they are deluded)."