Support the postal workers’ strike
Postal workers’ strike – 30 September to 1 October.
Solidarity with the CWU.
Join the picket lines and encourage Labour MPs to show support.
British Politics
Enough is Enough! – National Day Of Action – 1 October
Join the protests in support of the strikes and the 5 Enough is Enough! demands.
A high-risk gamble for these Tories, but a safer one for their project
The Budget and subsequent measures are intended to be transformational; a major step on the road to thoroughly ‘Americanising’ the British economy with low taxes, low wages, privatisation, deregulation and union-busting that are already designed to boost the profit rate.
Class war disguised as national renewal – Truss and Kwarteng to unleash turbocharged Thatcherite economics
An emergency budget is due on September 23. Liz Truss’ government will borrow £150bn to give to the already engorged energy companies. Kwarteng, the Chancellor, will further redistribute wealth to the rich, whilst speaking about the importance of growth with no policies to achieve it. The people pick up the tab.
How bad will Trussonomics be?
The economic project of the Truss government overall has no prospects at all of meeting its stated aim of increasing the trend rate of growth in the economy.
The sole important obstacle to severe further damage to living standards, public services and wider society that are central to the project is the resistance being mounted by many trade unions and their members.
Labour NEC election – Momentum’s right wing sectarianism damaged the left
The left suffered a set back in the NEC elections. Momentum divided the left and attacked one of its most popular candidates, instead of joining a campaign to unite the left against the right.