ShareTweet In this newsletter: 1) Register for the People’s Assembly 2) Volunteers needed 3) Access and BSL interpreters for the People’s Assembly 4) Local events 5) Save our hospitals London demo | 18 May 6) European Alter-Summit Against Austerity | 7/8 June Register for the People’s Assembly The People’s Assembly Against Austerity now has…
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The People’s Assembly and the European alter-summit
Local activity for the People’s Assembly
ShareTweet www.thepeoplesassembly.org.uk The People’s Assembly on Saturday 22 June is just the start of a new campaign against austerity which will launch national and local activity that aims to mobilise the millions who are sick of this rotten government. Close to 2,000 people have now registered their place at the event. Register your place…
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SERTUC Newsletter 56
ShareTweet newsletter 56 SERTUC SERTUC Disabled Workers Committee with SERTUC Young Members Network conference “Young Disabled People, employed and empowered?” Saturday 6 April 11am to 3pm at Congress House · Further and Higher Education: the specific challenges facing disabled young people with Jawanza Ipyana, National Union of Students · Panel Discussion: Employment, Policy and Good Practice in the…
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A journey into the vice-ridden world of banking
ShareTweet “As the Economist put it at year-end 2006, ‘having grown at an annual rate of 3.2% per head since 2000, the world economy is over halfway towards notching up its best decade ever. If it keeps going at this clip, it will beat both the supposedly idyllic 1950s and the 1960s. Market capitalism,…
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People’s Assembly can challenge our suffocating political consensus
ShareTweet By Owen Jones The cartel of modern politics is only ever disrupted from the right. Now, with the help of like-minded others, I will be touring the country to set up a left-wing movement Sometimes it seems as though British politics is one grand cartel, or a gentleman’s agreement, if…
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SERTUC newsletter 54
ShareTweet SERTUC Disabled Workers Committee with SERTUC Young Members Network conference “Young Disabled People, employed and empowered?” Saturday 6 April 11am to 3pm at Congress House · Further and Higher Education: the specific challenges facing disabled young people with Jawanza Ipyana, National Union of Students · Panel Discussion: Employment, Policy and Good Practice in the workplace with Rob McCraken CWU and Jonathan Naess…
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63 economists pledge support for People’s Assembly
ShareTweet After Osborne’s disastrous budget yesterday, 63 economists have pledged their support for the People’s Assembly with a letter to the Guardian. Published in the Guardian on Thursday 21 March George Osborne‘s latest budget confirms that austerity policies are set to continue for years to come (Budget 2013, 20 March). This is a call…
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Support the PCS strike on Budget Day
ShareTweet The PCS has voted to take strike action over pensions and pay this Wednesday. At the same time, George Osborne will be announcing another round of austerity measures in the annual Budget. PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: “This is not a one-day protest, this is the start of a rolling programme of…
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Cameron’s days in office may be numbered, but the national agenda is still set by the right
ShareTweet The Prime Minister is surrounded by ideological crusaders and they’ve succeeded in turning the politically impossible into the politically inevitable, says Owen Jones David Cameron is sunk, kaput, finito. He leads a party that has not won an election since 1992: back when nearly no one had heard of the internet; before text…
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Alexis Tsipras to speak in London | Friday 15 March
ShareTweet Public Meeting with Alexis Tsipras, Head of Syriza Parliamentary Group and Leader of the Opposition to the current pro-austerity Greek coalition government, London Fri 15 Mar 2013. Public talk by Alexis Tsipras (Tony Benn brief intro)” “The London branch of SYRIZA is proudly hosting c. Alexis Tsipras – the head…
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