‘Their Crisis Not Ours!’ campaign news

Emergency Budget: Redistribution from poor to big business

The Emergency Budget will redistribute wealth from the poor to big business. The Budget announced a 4% cut in corporation tax from 28% to 24%, a higher threshold for employer NI contributions and employer NI exemptions for new businesses, and a cut in the small business rate of tax. [continue...]

After the Election . . . Join the Resistance! - Sat 15 May

The LRC’s post-election meeting this Saturday, After the Election . . . Join the Resistance!, co-sponsored by CLPD, Convention of the Left, CWU, Labour Briefing, NUJ, Save the Labour Party, Right to Work and the Socialist Campaign to Stop the Tories and Fascists. [continue...]

Strong support for PCS on Budget Day

There was strong support for the PCS strike on Budget Day, most importantly from PCS members themselves, but great solidarity from other unions, LRC candidates and MPs, and LRC members. [continue...]

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...]

Solidarity with BA workers

Unite members working at BA have started a three-day strike against the employer, after BA failed to table acceptable proposals on the issues of job cuts and crews’ fears that management is driving down standards at the airline.  [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...]

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