Campaign news

Fight Duncan Smith’s welfare proposals

Iain Duncan Smith has published a welfare white paper proposing a Universal Credit. Behind the rhetoric of simplification and fairness, it proposes a massive extension of workfare delivered by private contractors, paid by results. It also promises harsher conditionality to deal with ‘welfare dependency’ and ‘worklessness culture’. It follows £18 billion of welfare cuts announced in the June Budget and October spending review. [continue...]

LRC Hampshire launches with unity call

A packed rally in Winchester on Thursday (11 Nov) responded enthusiastically to John McDonnell’s call for action to unite the labour movement around a massive anti-cuts campaign. [continue...]

LRC calls for no tuition fees

The LRC is taking part in the UCU and NUS organised Stop Education Cuts demo in London today (10 Nov). The LRC has clear policy against tuition fees and calls for their total abolition. Education, including higher education, should be funded out of general taxation. [continue...]

Housing Benefit reforms will cause “immense human suffering” says John McDonnell MP

LRC Chair John McDonnell MP last night condemned government proposals to cut housing benefit. John, speaking in a Parliamentary debate in the House of Commons on Housing Benefit, attacked opposition MPs for blaming tenants and not landlords for extortionate rents, and called for an emergency housing programme. [continue...]

Hampshire fights back against the ConDem cuts

LABOUR MP John McDonnell and communication workers’ leader Maria Exall will headline a rally against the ConDem government’s savage cuts that will launch Hampshire Labour Representation Committee in Winchester on November 11. [continue...]

LRC rally in Manchester calls for unity against the cuts

The LRC rally ‘Stop the Cuts! There is an Alternative’ in Manchester on Saturday 30 October brought together campaigners in unity against the cuts. NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear outlined the alternative to cuts before briefly outlining the NUJ’s dispute with the BBC, which will see NUJ members on strike on 5/6 November (LRC members and supporters are encouraged to get to picket lines outside BBC buildings). [continue...]

Solidarity with striking Tube workers

Calling all trade unionists! Threat to London Underground Jobs
Join our Day of Action - Friday 29th October 2010

Tory Mayor Boris Johnson is threatening to axe 2,000 jobs at London Underground. Tube workers are clear that this will damage the service afforded to passengers and undermine safety. This Friday (29th October) RMT and TSSA will hold a mass distribution of leaflets across the Tube network explaining why we are fighting to protect this vital public service and we would be very pleased if other trade unionists could join us in a show of solidarity.
We would like to invite you to join our members at 8am leafleting outside the following stations on Friday 29th October 2010: [continue...]

Lawful Industrial Action Bill falls in Parliament

The Tories and Lib Dems today (Fri 22 Oct) talked out the Lawful Industrial Action Bill, proposed by John McDonnell MP, and supported by every trade union - having won the unanimous backing of the 2010 TUC Congress in September. [continue...]

Lobby your MP to back the Lawful Industrial Action (Minor Errors) Bill

John McDonnell MP is sponsoring the Lawful Industrial Action (Minor Errors) Bill as his private members Bill in Parliament. The Bill would tackle the increasing practice by employers of using minor technical errors in the balloting process - which have no material effect on the outcome - to take unions to court in order to prevent them from taking industrial action. [continue...]

Keep the Post Public

The Coalition Government has announced plans to privatise Royal Mail. The government’s ideologically driven cuts programme is about redistributing wealth and power from poor to rich - and the privatisation of the Royal Mail is part of that. An opinion poll in August 2010 showed that only 15% of the public agrees with privatising Royal Mail while 60% believe the Royal Mail should remain a wholly publicly-owned organisation.  [continue...]

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