With: Diane Abbott MP, Shadow Health Minister Richard Burgon MP, Shadow Justice Minister Lucy Anderson MEP Councillor Maryam Eslamdoust Christine Shawcroft, Labour Party NEC member Mike Hedges, Unite London & Eastern Region Political Committee Murad Qureshi, former London Assembly member Marsha Jane Thompson, Momentum Matt Willgress, National Organiser, Labour Assembly Against Austerity Chris Williamson, former MP & candidate for Labour NCC After the #Brexit vote the Tories are threatening a wave of massive further cuts. We have called this rally in support of taking the fight to the Tories and uniting behind the progressive investment-based alternative proposed by Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership team.

A Labour Assembly Against Austerity 10am – 5pm, Saturday 14th November Institute of Education, Bedford Way, Central London REGISTER: Tickets available for £7 unwaged and £10 waged   A vital event to discuss how Labour can win the argument against austerity and we build the anti-cuts movement in the period, with: John McDonnell MP, Shadow Chancellor Plus speakers Diane Abbott MP Lucy Anderson MEP Shelly Asquith, Vice-President (Welfare,) National Union of Students Mick Burke, Socialist Economic Bulletin & Economists Against Austerity Victoria Chick, Emeritus professor of economics at University College London Sabby Dhalu, Stand up to Racism Betsy Dillner, Director, Generation Rent Siobhan Endean, Unite the Union Councillor Maryam Eslamdoust, Camden Andrew Fisher, Left Economics Advisory Panel (LEAP) Carol Hayton, Labour Party National Policy Forum Councillor Emine Ibrahim, Haringey Clive Lewis MP Andrew Murray, Stop the War Coalition & Unite the Union Councillor James Murray, Islington, & Labour Party National Policy Forum Professor Özlem Onaran, Professor of Workforce and Economic Development Policy, University of Greenwich Ann Pettifor, Labour’s Economic Advisory Council and PRIME Tim Roache, GMB Yorkshire & North Derbyshire Christine Shawcroft, Labour Party NEC Mark Serwotka, PCS General Secretary Dave Ward, CWU General Secretary Peter Willsman, Labour Party NEC […]

This year’s Labour Party conference was truly a turning point in the anti-austerity movement, writes Steve Turner. That day when I introduced Jeremy Corbyn on stage at the huge People’s Assembly march in June he was greeted like a rock star- so while many of us were optimistic about how his leadership campaign would unfold over the Summer I am not sure many of us guessed how successful it would be. Securing an election mandate of nearly 60% is of course just the start. But on Monday conference listened to a Shadow Chancellor in John McDonnell who was putting forward the clear anti-austerity arguments and the alternative to what has been happening in this country. It is something that the People’s Assembly Against Austerity, the trade union movement and many, many others have been campaigning for and have laid the ground for. We have all been arguing for the deficit to be shrunk by dynamically growing our economy, not punishing people. Economic growth through investment that delivers for all our local communities, builds homes, provides good working standards, and action to tackle low pay and the gender pay gap  – in short an economic policy that delivers for society. It […]

Jeremy’s agenda: mobilising members and winning voters Katy Clark, Co-Chair, Labour Assembly Against Austerity Jeremy Corbyn’s successful Labour leadership campaign over the summer has demonstrated clearly that a Labour leadership position of opposing austerity can be effective in both mobilising members and winning over voters. The party should prepare for a hard fight but be confident we can win in 2020.  Jeremy’s campaign won through this summer with authenticity. With setting out his stall in voting against the Welfare Bill in July, it was his clear opposition to the Tories ideological spending cuts, reducing the income of lower and middle income families and pushing greater numbers into poverty, made supporting him a no-brainer for many. Jeremy has transformed British politics. The historic scale of his victory, winning over 250,000 first preference votes and almost 60% of those cast – is unprecedented, as were the size of the public rallies he held across the country, the list of which reads like a band on tour. He has electrified the party and wider movement with many towns and cities seeing their largest gatherings of activists for years and at each one he could be found chatting to audience members at the end […]