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Public spending cuts are no way out of recession

8th July 2009

“The slogan repeated now on demonstrations and picket lines that “we are not paying for your crisis” is exactly the right one”. John McDonnell MP, writing for the Morning Star, said:

Over the last three months the same consensus has emerged across the three main political parties and within the mainstream media. In the interests of the country, wages must be cut, working hours increased, public expenditure must be massively reduced and there has even been a call to increase the retirement age to 70.

In effect the difference between the parties is not the direction of political travel but the depth and speed of cutting wages and public spending.

Read John McDonnell’s article in full on the Morning Star website.

Come to the launch rally of the ‘Our Taxes, Our Lives’ campaign on Tuesday 14th July. More details in the events section.

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Background

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...]