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Campaign news archive - October 2009
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...]
8th anniversary: Bring troops home from Afghanistan
. . . LRC calls for end to conflict twice as long as First World War
Today (Wed 7 Oct 2009) marks the 8th anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan. It is a conflict in which tens of thousands of Aghans have been killed, as well as 220 British troops. The war has now lasted twice as long as the First World War - and yet there are still no clear objectives.
John McDonnell MP, LRC Chair, said:
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Latest campaign news
- Contemporary motions at Labour Party conference
- Back Susan Press and Christine Shawcroft for the NEC
- LRC statement on the Labour leadership
- LRC backs Ken Livingstone as Labour candidate for Mayor
- Lobby your MP to back the Lawful Industrial Action (Minor Errors) Bill
- No justice as police exonerated again
- Government attacks civil service workers’s rights
- John McDonnell launches Bill to restore the right to strike
- Emergency Budget: Redistribution from poor to big business
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