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Time to take over the banks

The private banking system has failed. The banks triggered a deep recession and made workers poorer. Bankers’ scandalous practices – bumper bonuses, fraud, interest-rate fixing, tax evasion, money laundering – have continued. The banks have failed to help the economy recover…. [continue...]

LRC statement on Mali and Algeria

Just as Britain failed to learn the lessons of its failure to conquer Afghanistan in the 19th century, so the current French military intervention in Mali threatens to re-open an historic wound in the Sahel region. There has been a prolonged resistance struggle for decades in North Africa, fought with particular ferocity in Algeria. Armed Islamist resistance dates back to well before the current “War on Terror”, and although the rise to prominence of Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) was in part an unintended consequence of the invasion of Libya, the resistance has deeper roots in the colonial past.   [continue...]

February issue of Labour Briefing

The new February issue of Labour Briefing covers the big issues for Labour Party members and labour movement activists. Out now, it includes six pages on how Labour councils and Labour councillors can resist the cuts - including news of the formation of Councillors against the Cuts. There’s also a special pull-out from the FBU’s pamphlet on the public ownership of the banks. Subscribe online. [continue...]

LRC Youth backed candidates for Young Labour elections

Young Labour members should by now have received an email from Young Labour telling you that you can vote for your regional representative for the Young Labour National Committee. [continue...]

Councillors Against the Cuts

A group of Labour left councillors has formed ‘Councillors Against the Cuts’, following LRC Conference in November 2012 where the LRC reaffirmed its position to support Labour councils and councillors to oppose all cuts to public services and jobs. [continue...]

Hull Labour council takes on the blacklisters

Hull Labour Council has recently passed policy to ban blacklisting construction companies from getting local government contracts (where permitted by legislation) and has pledged to campaign with the GMB union to get apologies and compensation to workers affected by blacklisting. [continue...]

“Let’s seize upon this opportunity” to fight poverty, says John McDonnell MP

LRC Chair John McDonnell MP has written to every Labour MP urging them to vote against George Osborne’s Welfare Benefits Bill which would cap support for the poorest at 1% for the next 3 years. The letter, in response to the measures unveiled in the Autumn Statement, calls for Labour to take on the Tories over welfare and poverty and to lead “a new national coalition against poverty”. [continue...]

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