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Thanks for your NEC nominations for Gary Heather & Christine Shawcroft: Next Steps

The deadline has now passed to make nominations for the Labour Party NEC elections. Thanks to the dozens of CLPs that nominated Gary Heather and Christine Shawcroft. Christine was the second most nominated candidate with 203 nominations, while Gary - standing for the first time - secured 49 nominations (about 1 in 8 of all CLPs that made nominations). [continue...]

A Budget by the rich, for the rich

The Budget on Wednesday 21 March was further evidence that this government is committed to making those who had nothing to do with causing the economic crisis pay for it. Osborne failed to give any indication that he has any plan to bring down unemployment, raise living standards, reduce inequality or create economic growth. Instead, he is committed to driving down wages and taxes on the rich in a global race to the bottom. [continue...]

URGENT ACTION: Stop the Welfare Bill

MPs will be debating the Welfare Reform Bill on Wednesday 1 February 2012, which is the day after the Lords final debate. This is quite clearly a tactic to prevent campaigning and lobbying of MPs which is an attack on democracy. There are important issues at stake - protecting the disabled, including young disabled people and those with cancer, people on housing benefit, lone parents and larger families (details below). [continue...]

No war on Iran

The risk of a new military conflict with, or military strike on, Iran has intensified. A new oil embargo will bans all new oil contracts with Iran, and cuts off all existing deals. Also, all of the Iranian central bank’s European assets are to be frozen. The sanctions come into force on 1 July. [continue...]

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