Saturday 22 June 2013, 9:30am – 5pm,
Central Hall Westminster, Storey’s Gate, London, Westminster, London SW1H 9NH
- Register for the People’s Assembly Against Austerity
- Model Resolution in support of the People’s Assembly
- People’s Assembly launched in Guardian by trade union leaders, MPs, campaigns and cultural figures
- Contact us: [email protected] – 07872 481769
Model resolution for use in Trade Union branches / Student unions / campaign groups:
Feel free to edit this however you see fit.
People’s Assembly Against Austerity
[insert name of organisation] supports the September 2012 TUC Congress resolution, that “the trade union movement must continue leading from the front against this uncaring government with a coalition of resistance taking co-ordinated action where possible with far-reaching campaigns including the consideration and practicalities of a general strike.”
In support of the aims of this resolution a number of Trade Union General Secretaries and anti-cuts organisations have supported the call for a People’s Assembly Against Austerity that aspires to build a movement for social justice and develop a strategy for resistance to mobilise millions of people, through trade unions and local community organisations, against the ConDem government.
The Assembly will provide a national forum to develop links between trade unions, trade union councils and grassroots community based campaigns, and to build confidence of those promoting anti-austerity views which, whilst increasingly popular, are barely represented in Parliament.
[insert name of organisation] agrees to support the call for the People’s Assembly at Central Hall Westminster on Saturday 22 June 2013 and send [x] delegates.
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I’m in. The only way we’re going to challenge what’s happening is en masse.
Just watching PM Questions yesterday was enough to witness just what a dysfunctional shower of children we have representing us in Parliament. Read Stefan Hatfield’s column in today’s (Thursdays’) edition of the i paper for a perfectly observed comment on the whole circus. The shocking lack of vision or imagination shown on both sides of the house is astonishing.We are not living in times where Party political dogma should still be dictating how we should be living or should be managed, in the modern world. The old party tribes are redundant! We should be demanding a House of Commons sense… Crap pun, sorry…
I am in too I cant just sit and watch what this government is doing to the people of this country….we need a revolution !!…the apathy in this country is alarming me…something has to be done before its too late…
We must empower people on a local level to resist the actions of bailiffs and police, dispossessing people of their homes and livelihoods.
This is NOT what civil society is meant to represent, it is there to protect citizens from the rapacious plunderings of robber barons, be it electronic or physical.
Focussing on national action creates a danger of alienating grass roots action that can, albeit be much assisted by national exposure.
Direct action on a grass roots level supported by a growing moral concensus and a national profile has great power to mobilise otherwise an otherwise apathetic constituency and especially young people.
What is going on is the most blatant con job, we really have to stick it to ‘em !
I’m sick of this governments attitude toward ordinary hard working people, we’re in this together only applies to millionaires
i am sickened and disgusted with the welfare changes this government have implemented to punish the poor and less fortunate of our society. as a public sector worker i stand in unity with every citizen fighting heartless changes and policing of the disabled, elderly and unempoyed. my granfather fought in the Somme for the welfare sytem implemneted by LLoyd George and ushered in by William Beverage. I wa ask everyone to stand and fight for a fairer more equal caring system where we care for the young, the disabled , the unemployed and the people who need it. Dont lie down and do nothing, stand and fight for our children and grandchildren, Stop the coalition and get them out.
I’m standing with you. As a charity worker I’m witnessing first hand on a daily basis the devastating effects the coalition’s policies are wreaking on individual lives. And it’s all about to get much worse with the latest round of cuts, the bedroom tax and cuts to legal for starters. I’ve never been political (except for regularly voting Labour which is no longer an alternative). But the coalition’s destruction of everything that made me proud to be British, especially the welfare state & the NHS, is breaking my heart & boiling my blood.
United we stand.
* cuts to legal aid
These stocking-footed fascists of a Coalition, are half way into changing the dynamics of our society. They are using the ‘Deficit’ as a Trojan Horse to implement a wicked, nasty and uncaring ideology based on greed and self interest. We need to wrestle back power from the financial institutions and multi-nationals, and give it back to where it belongs – THE PEOPLE! By the way, can anybody tell me whether there are any coaches organised from Liverpool for the 22nd?
Hi, I have booked for the 22nd and would also be keen to know if you have any information about coaches from Liverpool.
Many thanks,
Elaine
We have booked a place.
Over the years, the 99% have been betrayed by the Political Class. We have lost all the gains made by the post war government.
We have been told that we are all middle-class (Mr Prescott) so we should be Calm and be relaxed about the rich getting filthy-rich(Mandelson/Blair).
Time to fight back.
Arvind & Ruth
I don’t think I’ll be well enough to march, but I am Sooooo impressed with you demonstrators and really believe that we need to, and can, have our communities back. Thank you for marching on my behalf.
what,s the point in protesting in London. London is the problem, and always has been. We need regional assemblies, where REAL people can go and have their voices heard. An ideal solution for me would be to flatten London completely.
This is classic shock doctrine government. Maggie must be so proud!
I’d love to be there but my disability & my enforced poverty under the Coalitions Welfare Reform means this is impossible. Are there any plans to utilise social media to allow a virtual presence?
Are people really going to fall for yet another front from the false opposition that is the TUC and the dysfunctional left? Ooh! Another pointless march, spend what little cash we have being preached to by overpaid pundits and union bosses at a stupid rally? Nah, no thanks. Better that us plebs organise ourselves, stop depending on the hot air and empty rhetoric of the useless unions, form local groups, exclude those who seek to dominate then and build our own resistance movement, autonomous, creative, self-motivated and militant. Enough of this rubbish.