The Labour Assembly Against Austerity saw over 200 party activists come together to discuss the cost of living crisis being caused by coalition austerity and the need for Labour to present an inspiring alternative vision that will win the 2015 election and then go on to change people’s lives for Read more…
Watch the speeches from the Labour Assembly Against Austerity, which took place on 9th November 2013. More videos will be added in the coming days. For transcripts of these speeches, see the links on our videos page. Owen Jones Diane Abbott MP Katy Clark MP
Out of every great crisis comes some recognition that the old order has failed. As a result there is an opportunity to create an entirely new way of doing things. For most people alive in Britain today the two prime ministers who radically altered British society were Clement Attlee and Read more…
The Chancellor of the Exchequer was recently heralding a 0.8 per cent increase in gross domestic product as a recovery. Growth of any amount should not be attacked in the context of the longest recession since the Victorian era. However growth of this level is pitiful, and no sign that Read more…
Huge hikes in energy charges, falling real wages, job losses, zero-hours contracts, lower benefits, people with disabilities denied the support they need and the spread of food banks across the country – the attack on living standards now defines the political debate. This is down to Ed Miliband’s focus on Read more…
Nothing’s more important than coming to the Labour Assembly Against Austerity on the 9th November. We have to win the economic argument that means this government is defeated. That we elect a Labour Government that’s going to make really radical change by genuinely redistributing wealth, putting people back Read more…