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‘Their Crisis Not Ours!’ campaign news

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...]

UK needs radical policy shift to tackle unemployment

UK Unemployment has risen to 2.26 million today, with the number of people in work down 271,000 in the last month - the highest quarterly decrease since records began. [continue...]

PRESS: National minimum wage uprating is “derisory”, says John McDonnell MP

The National Minimum Wage (NMW) uprating has been condemned as “derisory” by Labour MP and LRC Chair John McDonnell. The increase in NMW rates is between 4p and 7p an hour - an increase barely over 1%. It will come into effect in October 2009. [continue...]

May Day - victory at Visteon

There was a strong LRC contingent on May Day march and rally in London, as around 3,000 trade unionists and human rights activists marched through the capital calling for policies in the interests of working people. [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...]