‘Their Crisis Not Ours!’ campaign news

Solidarity with PCS: Support strike on Budget Day!

Over 250,000 members of the PCS union will be taking further strike action on Budget Day 2010, Wednesday 24th March. This follows two days of action on 8th and 9th March to defend the Civil Service Compensation Scheme (CSCS).  [continue...]

LRC Statement on Iceland and Icesave

One of the central questions of the global economic crisis is “who is going to pay for it?” Globally, the bankers, speculators and Government ministers who brought about the crisis are largely avoiding responsibility and the people who are being pressurised into paying are the ordinary people who were neither in control nor responsible. [continue...]

Who rules the country: the Government or the City?

Alistair Darling has today published his Pre-Budget Report - the last before the 2010 General Election. [continue...]

Cross-Party consensus on cuts will doom UK to more recession

Ahead of Wednesday’s (9th December 2009) Pre-Budget Report, the LRC has called for an alternative to the cross-party consensus on public sector cuts, as we know the damage that could be wrought by the cuts agenda. [continue...]

Government selling off the family silver

On Monday 12th October, Gordon Brown announced a programme of privatisations of Government assets worth £16bn. This included the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, the Royal Mint, Ordnance Survey, and tens of thousands of council homes. [continue...]

Cutting our way to defeat?

There is now a consensus among the three main parties that there needs to be drastic cuts in public expenditure. We do not agree. The crisis was not caused by public expenditure but by the failure of private markets and an excess of private debt.  [continue...]

LRC calls for justice for former Visteon workers

Ex-Visteon workers will today be campaigning outside the offices of the Unite union in order to promote their plight, following the collapse of the UK arm of the motor industry component supplier, Visteon UK - which has left ex- and retired workers with greatly reduced pensions. [continue...]

Support the Vestas Workers’ Occupation

Workers have occupied Britain’s only significant wind turbine factory (in Newport, Isle of Wight) to try to prevent its closure and the loss of 600 jobs.  [continue...]

Public spending cuts are no way out of recession

“The slogan repeated now on demonstrations and picket lines that “we are not paying for your crisis” is exactly the right one”. John McDonnell MP, writing for the Morning Star, said: [continue...]

LRC meeting at Morning Star conference

The LRC held a packed workshop under the title ‘Welfare for the Rich, Workfare for the Poor’ at the Morning Star conference ‘Surviving Capitalism’s Crisis’ on Saturday 20th June. [continue...]

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