People’s Assembly Against Austerity
013, 9:30am – 5pm,
Central Hall Westminster, Storey’s Gate, London, SW1H 9NH

assembly@coalitionofresistance.org.uk | 07872 481769 | Click here to register
Launched with a letter in today’s Guardian, 55 trade union general secretaries, MPs, campaigners, and cultural figures have put out a call for a People’s Assembly Against Austerity.
The assembly aims to “play a key role in ensuring that this uncaring government faces a movement of opposition broad enough and powerful enough to generate successful co-ordinated action, including strike action.” See the full text of the letter here.
The letter is signed by:
Tony Benn President, Coalition of Resistance; Len McCluskey General secretary, Unite the Union; Mark Serwotka General secretary, PCS; Christine Blower General secretary, NUT; Michelle Stanistreet General secretary, NUJ; Manuel Cortez General secretary, TSSA; Billy Hayes General secretary, CWU; Bob CrowGeneral secretary, RMT; Mick Whelan General secretary, Aslef; Kevin Courtney Deputy general secretary, NUT; Paul Mackney Former general secretary Natfhe (now UCU); Vicky Baars NUS union development;Kevin Donnelly Trade Union Council JCC; Caroline Lucas MP; Katy Clark MP; Jeremy Corbyn MP; John McDonnell MP; Murad Qureshi London assembly member; Dawn Butler Former Labour minister for young citizens and youth engagement; Tariq Ali Author; John Pilger Journalist; Ken Loach Filmmaker; Owen JonesWriter; James Meadway Senior economist, New Economics Foundation; Wendy Savage & John Lipetz Keep our NHS Public; John Hendy QC Co-chair, People’s Charter; John Hilary Director, War on Want; Sam Fairbairn National secretary, Coalition of Resistance; Imran Khan Solicitor, co-chair, People’s Charter;Rachael Newton People’s Charter; Romayne Phoenix Chair, Coalition of Resistance; Zita Holbourne Co-chair, Black activists rising against the cuts; Clare Solomon Vice-chair, Coalition of Resistance; Andrew Burgin Vice-chair, Coalition of Resistance; Colin Hampton Co-ordinator, National Unemployed Workers Centres Combine; Anita Wright Secretary, National Association of Women; Joginder Bains Association of Indian Women; Shang Gahonia Indian Workers Association; Carolin Jones Director, Institute of Employment Rights; Lindsey German Convenor, Stop the War Coalition; Kate Hudson General secretary, CND; Bruce Kent Peace campaigner; Lee Hall Playwright; Roger Lloyd Pack Actor; Josie Long Comedian; Iain BanksAuthor; Arthur Smith Comedian; Roy Bailey Folk singer; Francesca Martinez Comedian; John ReesCounterfire editorial board; Natalie Bennett Leader of the Green Party England and Wales; Fred LeplatSocialist Resistance; Robert Griffiths General secretary, Communist Party of Britain; Bill Greenshields Chair, Communist Party of Britain; Richard Bagley Editor, Morning Star
Here’s how you can help:
- Register for the event: click here.
- Post the Guardian letter on Facebook, tweet it and circulate it around any social media sites and any email lists you may have.
- Take a copy of this model motion to any trade union, student union or campaign group that may be interested in supporting the Assembly and pledging to send delegates to it.
- Add your name, your union branch or organisation to the growing list of supporters on our website here.
- Contact any people who might support the Assembly and send them a copy of the motion asking them to try and pass it in their union branch or organisation.
- Make sure someone from your group/area attends the Coalition of Resistance National Council meeting this Sunday 10 February, 12-4pm, Unite offices, Theobald’s Rd, London WC1. Contact office@coalitionofresistance.org.uk for more information.
Left Labour UK and the tailists of the CPB etc, etc, are trying to help out desperate Ed through the Coalition of Resistance, by launching yet more attacks on the traditional, Tory class enemy.
Poor things. They still can’t accept that three decades of its neoliberalism is the culmination of Labour’s evolution, that there is no going back and there is no going forward for any of them.
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And why wait until June? It all seems to be a sluggish, knee-jerk reaction, ages after the fact and not much more than a symbolic show of ‘resistance’.
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In a call of less than 200 words and not a squeak about Milliband’s support for austerity, we get “renewed attack by the government” – “with the government lengthening the time they expect cuts to last” – “trade unionists in a movement for social justice” – “strategy for resistance to mobilise millions of people against the ConDem government” and, last but not least, “this uncaring government”.
I’ve had plenty of stuff like this thrown at me since I first supported Labour in 1945, so please excuse me if I think a better title would be:
People’s Assembly for a Labour Government
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