As opposition to austerity gathers momentum across Europe, there is evidence the same mood is taking hold in the UK. Political parties in Greece, Spain and Ireland – three of the countries suffering from the worst austerity measures – have risen to prominence on the back of unambiguous opposition to Read more…
Syriza has won the Greek election, becoming the first party to win a general election in Europe during the crisis opposed to imposing austerity on its population. Austerity in Greece – demanded by the terms of the ‘bailout’ by the Troika (European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund) Read more…
A number of Labour MPs have released a statement calling for an alternative to austerity and spending cuts – as reported on LabourList. 1. An alternative to the continuation of austerity and spending cuts till 2019-20 All three main parties, tragically, seem to agree that deep spending cuts must Read more…
Steve Turner, Chair of the People’s Assembly Against Austerity and Assistant General Secretary of Unite the Union, reports from a packed Labour Assembly Against Austerity fringe meeting, attended by over 150 members, at Labour Party Conference. The meeting was addressed by Diane Abbott MP, Katy Clark MP, Dominic Curran, Owen 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…