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Campaign background

Their crisis not ours

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...
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Campaign news

John McDonnell MP interviews PCS’s Mark Serwotka

LRC Chair John McDonnell MP interviewed PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka about the welfare proposals. Read John McDonnell’s comments and watch the interview with Mark Serwotka.  [continue...]
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Left vows to fight Welfare Bill tooth and nail

The Government has today published its Welfare Reform Bill. The Bill contains measures that will see income support abolished, further privatisation of welfare services and attacks on entitlement to lone parents, disabled people and those unemployed. [continue...]
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May Day - victory at Visteon

There was a strong LRC contingent on May Day march and rally in London, as around 3,000 trade unionists and human rights activists marched through the capital calling for policies in the interests of working people. [continue...]
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Construction lobby - fighting for trade union rights

Clear evidence emerged recently that several major construction companies had been blacklisting workers for trade union activity. Under the Employment Relations Act 1999, the government has the power to introduce regulations prohibiting the blacklisting of workers for their union membership or activities, and now finally, the Government has indicated that after a short consultation it will legislate in the autumn. [continue...]
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MPs’ expenses scandal

The scandals surrounding MPs’ expenses has dominated the news over the last few weeks. LRC Chair John McDonnell MP said:  [continue...]
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UK needs radical policy shift to tackle unemployment

UK Unemployment has risen to 2.26 million today, with the number of people in work down 271,000 in the last month - the highest quarterly decrease since records began. [continue...]
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LRC meeting at Morning Star conference

The LRC held a packed workshop under the title ‘Welfare for the Rich, Workfare for the Poor’ at the Morning Star conference ‘Surviving Capitalism’s Crisis’ on Saturday 20th June. [continue...]
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Public spending cuts are no way out of recession

“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: [continue...]
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Support the Vestas Workers’ Occupation

Workers have occupied Britain’s only significant wind turbine factory (in Newport, Isle of Wight) to try to prevent its closure and the loss of 600 jobs.  [continue...]
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Cutting our way to defeat?

There is now a consensus among the three main parties that there needs to be drastic cuts in public expenditure. We do not agree. The crisis was not caused by public expenditure but by the failure of private markets and an excess of private debt.  [continue...]
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Press Releases

National minimum wage uprating is “derisory”, says John McDonnell MP

The National Minimum Wage (NMW) uprating has been condemned as “derisory” by Labour MP and LRC Chair John McDonnell. The increase in NMW rates is between 4p and 7p an hour - an increase barely over 1%. It will come into effect in October 2009. [continue...]
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LRC calls for justice for former Visteon workers

Ex-Visteon workers will today be campaigning outside the offices of the Unite union in order to promote their plight, following the collapse of the UK arm of the motor industry component supplier, Visteon UK - which has left ex- and retired workers with greatly reduced pensions. [continue...]
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LRC TV

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  John McDonnell on Inequality (Channel 4News)
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  John McDonnell at PCS Conference 2009
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  Jeremy Dear at LRC Conference 2008
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  John McDonnell MP at LRC Conference 2008
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  Tony Benn at LRC Conference 2008
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  Matt Wrack at LRC Conference 2008
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  Katy Clark MP at LRC Conference 2008
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  Andrew Fisher (LEAP) on Northern Rock repossessions
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  John McDonnell on the UK bank bailout