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‘Their Crisis Not Ours!’ campaign news

Secret City at the Fringe

Secret City screening & Filmmakers Q&A 1.40pm–4.30pm, Sat 25 May, Brighthelm Centre, Brighton. [continue...]

At Brighton Fringe 2013 - Presented by The Labour Representation Committee Are Tax Dodgers the Real Scroungers?
7pm - 9.30pm, Weds 22 May, Community Base
Tax evasion, avoidance & non-collection cost £120bn while benefit fraud’s below £5bn. With tax cheats costing us so much, why do we hear so little about them? Katy Clark MP, Mark Serwotka (PCS) & Owen Jones (journalist) discuss inequalities in tax and welfare. £4/£2/ PCS FREE
Almost SOLD OUT
Contact www.brightonfringe.org for final tickets left or email sussexlrc@hotmail.co.uk for returns. [continue...]

FEATURE: Money for war but not for the poor

Jeremy Corbyn MP contrasts two parliamentary debates from earlier this week: one which capped the incomes of the poorest, the second which seemingly committed to open-ended ‘anti-terror’ activities in north Africa [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...]

FEATURE: We need a coalition of resistance against local council cuts

Ted Knight argues that Labour councillors should be leading a struggle against government cuts [continue...]

Labour must fight Osborne’s austerity budget

The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement has launched new attacks on welfare benefits and public sector jobs as Osborne’s austerity programme continue to fail to reduce the debt, to reduce the deficit or to create jobs or growth. [continue...]

Taking on the tax dodgers

This has been a good week for tax justice campaigners. A Select Committee of MPs has published a report that is both highly critical of the way multinational corporations are avoiding tax, and the mismanagement of HM Revenue & Customs in recent years. [continue...]

Solidarity with 14 November ETUC action

The LRC is supporting the European-wide day of action called by the ETUC against the austerity. As we said in the National Committee statement passed at the LRC AGM “the cost of capitalist failures is being paid for by cuts to working people’s living standards”. Conference heard from speakers from sister organisations across Europe, including Parti de Gauche, Syriza and Die Linke. [continue...]

Join us on 20 October TUC demo!

We hope to see many of you in London for the TUC ‘Future That Works’ demo on Saturday. The LRC will be marching with our new flags (preview here) and banner. [continue...]

Debate puts council cuts in the spotlight

What Labour councils can do to resist Tory cuts is major debate in the labour movement, that unfortunately did not get much of a hearing at Labour Party conference. However, the debate has been raging in the pages of the Independent and on Twitter between Owen Jones, Lambeth leader Steve Reed, and LRC national committee members and former Lambeth leader Ted Knight. [continue...]

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Background

Across the country working people are losing their jobs and their homes. Meanwhile the bankers who plunged us into this crisis have been bailed out with billions of pounds of our money. It’s time to fight back. Their Crisis Not Ours! is the LRC’s campaign to bring together workers, pensioners, the unemployed, students, those facing repossession and all those suffering because of an economic crisis that has been imposed on us. The campaign is supporting the demands of the People’s Charter. [continue...]