Our history is full of examples of how disabled people have come together when under attack to fight — and win. Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), Black Triangle, Mental Health Resistance Network and the WOW petition bring you Reclaiming Our Futures — a week of action to protest against the targeting of disabled people by austerity measures, to […]
Posts under ‘Public services’
Reclaiming Our Futures: protest against austerity, for the rights of disabled people
Aug 17th, 2013 by Newsdesk.
Labour must pledge to renationalise Royal Mail along with water, rail, energy and banks
Aug 7th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.The only argument that the Tories have put forward to justify the privatisation of Royal Mail, apart from their ideological absolutism against any role for the State, is that it will increase efficiency by allowing it to operate freely within a private market. But that argument is bogus. First, operating within a private market under […]
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Eighty per cent want public ownership option
Aug 5th, 2013 by Newsdesk.A new poll finds 80% of the public think there should always be a public sector bid when a public service is contracted out. The public rejects default privatisation by 10:1. The poll was carried out by Survation and commissioned by We Own It, a new organisation committed to “Public services for people not profit” which launches today with […]
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And another thing… time to take back water into public ownership
Jul 21st, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Did you know that two-thirds of our water companies are owned by foreigners? Does it matter? Well, yes it does. They can major on water supplies in their own home country and neglect the UK arm of their business, they can fail to deal quickly or adequately with leaks in the UK even when it […]
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Royal Mail: never has a privatisation been so unjustifiable
Jul 14th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Has there ever been a privatisation so threadbare in justification? The government has three excuses that are so easily demolished: Claim 1: it needs more investment which at a time of austerity can only come from the private sector. But Network Rail, which is in essence a public body, has borrowed sums on the private […]
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A dreadful spending review but Labour still has key lessons to learn
Jun 27th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Toryism was out in its most naked colours yesterday. Osborne wants an additional £11.5bn spending cuts by 2015-6, and intends to get them by £5bn so-called efficiency savings (a hypocritical blanket cover for straightforward cuts), £2.6bn cuts to local authority budgets (already cut by 30-40% since 2010 for many Councils in the North), and £500m […]
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Fairness in tough times: coping with 40% cuts to local government
Jun 27th, 2013 by Alice Perry.Yesterday the Tory-Lib Dem coalition once again slashed funding for local government. Disgracefully, the country’s most deprived communities are receiving the biggest cuts. My local authority has suffered another £20million a year cut. This £20million is in addition to the eye-watering £120million a year cuts we have already received. Basically, since 2010 our budget has […]
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We need a Labour Assembly Against Austerity
Jun 25th, 2013 by Ben Folley.Talk of ‘tough decisions’ and ‘iron discipline’ on spending demonstrate the dominance of Tory thinking over economic policy in Westminster, even as its effects cost them support in the polls. Labour needs to start thinking and acting for itself and for the people it represents. The Tories are tanking as the impact of austerity, trashing the economy and tearing up lives, […]
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The People’s Assembly against Austerity: a programme for action
Jun 12th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.The statement below will be put to the People’s Assembly for approval on 22 June. It will then be open to the local People’s Assembly’s, union bodies and campaign groups who support the People’s Assembly to suggest amendments, additions, or deletions. These will then all be discussed and decided upon at the recall People’s Assembly […]
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GMB Members take Carillion Dispute to Bristol Southmead
May 10th, 2013 by Andy Newman.GMB members, in dispute with Carillion at Great Western PFI Hospital in Swindon since December 2011, today demonstrated at Southmead Hospital in Bristol over the on-going dispute and blacklisting by Carillion. 150 GMB members employed by Carillion at Swindon have taken 21 days of strike action over the persistent failure of the Carillion management to deal with evidence […]
