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LRC Meeting at Labour Conference

13th September 2017

LRC Meeting at Labour Conference

Forward to a Labour Government

Speakers include:
John McDonnell MP
Laura Pidcock MP
Chris Williamson MP
Claudia Webbe, Labour NEC
Matt Wrack FBU
Mark Serwotka PCS
Dave Ward CWU
Liz Davies, Labour Women Leading

Labour’s 2017 manifesto showed that a Corbyn-led Labour Government will represent the working class, rather than serve the privileged elite. Labour is pledged to end austerity, fight racism, return key assets like our railways to public ownership, save others like our Fire Service and Post Offices, and rid Britain of anti-union laws. Discuss how best to push forward now for a Labour Government implementing the democratic socialist policies in Labour’s 2017 manifesto which received popular support from voters.

Refreshments will be available when doors open at 6.15pm, with the meeting starting promptly at 6.30pm. With so many great speakers, you will not want to be late!

6:30pm Tuesday 26th September
Friends Meeting House Ship Street BN1 1AF
Refreshments from 6:15pm, Full disabled access

Background

By Ian Hodson It’s great news that a mainstream political party has recognised the importance of taking positive action to raise pay. Since 2008, politicians from all parties along with many in the media, have pushed the narrative that society will somehow improve by imposing austerity and blaming minority groups for the state of the country’s finances. Sadly, many have fallen for this deception and the ‘look over there’ politics that has rose to prominence since the Conservatives returned to power in 2010. [continue...]

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Please see our Labour Briefing Website here: LabourBriefing.org [continue...]

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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...]

Rail bosses are using the recession as an excuse to attack jobs and conditions and cut back on services and essential rail works, and hike rail fares - as LEAP research suggested they would. Thousands of jobs are being threatened or have been lost. At the same time rail fat cats are raking in big profits and bonuses on the back of the most expensive fares in Europe. Make no mistake: as the recession worsens so will the attack on rail workers and rail services. [continue...]

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