‘Their Crisis Not Ours!’ campaign news

LRC calls on Labour leadership to oppose Hutton proposals

The LRC - a grassroots membership organisation of Labour party members, trade unionists and Members of Parliament - is calling on Labour’s leadership to reject Lord Hutton’s proposals that public sector pensioners should pay higher contributions and receive a lower pension. [continue...]

Building local resistance to cuts

The late February / early March round of local council budget meetings produced the first demonstrations outside, and sometimes inside, town halls for nearly a generation. [continue...]

Six Hackney Councillors sign joint statement against cuts

The statement below, signed by six Hackney Labour councillors, was prepared for a tabloid paper published by Hackney Unites.
Hackney Unites is a diverse coalition of Hackney-based groups and individuals that have come together to challenge social exclusion and promote social justice.
Hackney LRC is one of its founding groups.
The tabloid will be distributed door-to-door in Hackney in the coming weeks.  [continue...]

Winning the argument on councils resisting the cuts

In response to the LRC’s leaflet calling on Labour Councillors to refuse to make cuts, we received the following from an activist:
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2011 LRC Conference Report: Resist the Cuts, Rebuild the Party

The LRC conference passed the National Committee statement, an emergency motion from CWU on the Royal Mail, and motions 1-9 and 11-16 from the Resolutions booklet. Motion 10 was lost by approximately 2:1. [continue...]

LRC Conference: Resist the Cuts, Rebuild the Party

Come to the LRC Conference ‘Resist the Cuts, Rebuild the Party’ on Saturday 15 January. The conference will set LRC campaigning priorities for the year ahead, elect a new National Committee and officers and will hear from speakers including: Tony Benn, Christine Blower (NUT), Jeremy Corbyn MP, John McDonnell MP, Clare Solomon (ULU President), and Matt Wrack (FBU). [continue...]

The Cuts - the impact on LGBTQ communities

We are all affected by public spending cuts, whether as workers or in the services being cut from our communities. It is this government’s intention to make ordinary people pay the price for an economic crisis which they did not cause. [continue...]

LRC statement on Free Education and 9/12 demo

The LRC condemns the Coalition government for voting through the trebling of tuition fees, for abolishing the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) and the 80% cut in central teaching grant to Higher Education institutions. [continue...]

The Cuts - the impact on older people, by NPC

We are all affected by public spending cuts, whether as workers or in the services being cut from our communities. It is this government’s intention to make ordinary people pay the price for an economic crisis which they did not cause. [continue...]

LRC voices as Parliament votes to trebles university fees

On Thursday 9 December Parliament voted to treble university tuition fees. Outside 30,000 students and their supporters protested for free education. Below is how LRC members, in Parliament and in Parliament Square, reacted.
John McDonnell MP spoke at the demo at Malet Street, before tweeting from inside the Commons:  [continue...]

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