“The solution is resistance - that means joining demonstrations, occupations & picket lines" - John McDonnell responds to the Tories' Autumn Statement and the return of austerity.
Tag: Cost-of-living crisis
This miserly budget privatises social struggle as individual shame
"Never before has it been more obvious that our democracy is a front for the management and control of capital, big business, and profiteering" - Laura Smith responds to the Autumn Statement.
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."
Huge numbers to take to the streets to demand change and call for a General Election NOW
"Fight back on every level" - the People's Assembly Against Austerity urges us to take to the streets on November 5th and make a unified call a General Election.
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
Campaigning for Free Trade Unions – a Vital Fight Against Truss #TUC2022
"We are at a turning point. We are at a moment when everything could change… when victories for union members can become victories for us all."
No to Tory divide & rule – Sabby Dhalu, Stand up to Racism, #TUC2022
"This dog whistle rhetoric & new legislation is being imposed in the context of a deeply unpopular government hell bent on making the 99% suffer immense financial hardship so the 1% can continue to rake in unprecedented levels of profit to the tune of billions."
‘We will strike no matter what the hurdles they put in front of us’ – Mick Lynch & fellow union leaders condemn Tory attacks at #TUC2022
"The only thing that will be left out of that budget apart from the bankers' caps are anti-trade union laws they will bring in against us."
Educate, Agitate, Organise! Morning Star event at #TUC2022
"It's great to see us (the trade unions) fighting back, and long may it continue" - report back from The Morning Star Fringe at #TUC2022.
Our Determination to Stand Together is Our Strength – Daniel Kebede, NEU, #TUC22
“It is a fight to build a strong & militant trade union movement, capable of winning back what has been taken from us over the past 40 years. It is a fight we must wage together & win together.”