I’m Owen Jones. I’m a journalist and activist. I just want to call out for everyone to come to the Labour Assembly Against Austerity on the 9th of November. We’re going through the longest economic crisis not since the Great Depression but in modern history. The longest fall in Read more…
October, the time of year we traditionally collect for Harvest Festivals, and now the message going out from many churches and community groups is to collect for local food banks. It is indeed a sign of the times. The boom in foodbanks has been well documented by many writers in Read more…
Against the backdrop of the slowest recovery on record and declining living standards, a new movement, Labour Assembly Against Austerity, was launched at the party’s annual conference on Sunday. Calling for Labour to offer serious alternatives to Tory austerity the Labour Assembly Against Austerity has already attracted the support of Read more…
A quick look at the BBC website shows it blithely reporting inflation as running at 2.7 per cent and hailing this as another example of the success of government’s economic strategy. But take a closer look, and a little further in the article there lurk some other truths which might Read more…
Steve Turner, Unite the Union, who will speak at the Labour Assembly Against Austerity, delivered this speech on 9th September moving TUC Composite Motion 1 on Anti-Austerity Campaigning Colleagues, three years into the most vicious and vindictive government in living memory, the war against workers, raised by Frances O’Grady in her Read more…