After a summer of working-class fightback, the left itself must step up a gear - our conference aims to bring the various strands of resistance together, writes Arise Festival's Sam Browse.
Tag: austerity
More Austerity and Tory Inaction on Wages Means Millions Will Suffer – John McDonnell
In response to the Tories Autumn Statement and the return of austerity, John McDonnell spoke in parliament on the need for a progressive and transformative alternative.
#AutumnStatement: increase in NHS funding is a real terms cut! – Just Treatment
In the Autumn Statement Jeremy Hunt has unleashed a new wave of austerity. Claiming to put the NHS first with a £3.3bn funding increase... in reality, this is a real terms cut - Just Treatment
Hunt confirms years more austerity #AutumnStatement2022
"The Autumn Statement was an austerity budget that will further entrench inequality, force tax rises on struggling households and crush public services" - Left MPs respond to the #AutumnStatement.
Now is the time to build support for a radical economic policy – not retreat from one
Labour must put forward a bold and transformative economic policies. In failing to provide an alternative, the party risks normalising the return to crippling austerity, writes Sam Browse.
Autumn Statement expected to drive social conflict
"The Conservatives are set to punish already hard-pressed households struggling with the cost-of-living crisis and drive social conflict, by prioritising sticking to their own arbitrary fiscal rules."
Unleashing Austerity 2.0 would be an insult to the people of this country – Rebecca Long Bailey MP
"The results of 12 years of austerity driven Conservative Government already speak for themselves. For more than a decade, our public services have been driven into the ground by Tory cuts."
Labour must not legitimise austerity in the minds of the electorate – Jon Trickett MP
"We must not legitimise austerity in the minds of the electorate. If the last 12 years have taught us anything it is surely that austerity simply doesn’t work" - Jon Trickett MP
A generation is growing up with crisis and austerity – but it’s completely reversible with the political will
"The whole system is designed to inflict cruelty, indignity and shame. Once you apply for help you then have the ins and outs of your life analysed and questioned in such a way that you automatically begin to feel undeserving." By Laura Smith Few things boil my blood more than the decade-long politically-motivated attack that…