London People’s Assembly meeting | Wednesday 9th October | 6.30pm | Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT) Torrington Square WC1H 0XG
Join the conversation about how we build an anti-austerity alternative in London.
On Wednesday 9th October, we are holding a London-wide People’s Assembly meeting at the Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLM), starting at 6.30pm.
The meeting will act as a rallying point for anti-austerity activists in London and bit of a relaunch of the People’s Assembly in London, where we’ll discuss how to organise across the capital city and how we campaign together in new circumstances, with a new government, but the same old austerity cuts.
In the lead up to Labour’s first budget in government on October 30th 2024, where they are widely expected to reassert their arbitrary ‘fiscal rules’ which will effectively lock in austerity and cuts for years to come, we will be asserting our opposition to further cuts and the need to reinvest in our public services and rebuild our communities after 14 years of relentless attacks on them. Cuts are cuts, austerity is austerity, no matter who is implementing it.
Speaking at the meeting will be Eddie Dempsey, Assistant General Secretary of the RMT union, Maryam Eslamdoust, General Secretary of TSSA and John McDonnell MP. They will lead a discussion about the impact of continuing austerity and how we build a campaign to resist continued cuts to public services and the decimation of community resources, alongside the trade union movement in London and nationally.
We welcome the participation of campaigning groups, community organisations, trades councils and trade union branches in the meeting. The People’s Assembly has been at the heart of the campaign to defend our communities from austerity cuts for over a decade, and we have always worked in a collective way, providing an umbrella for different groups of activists and campaigners to work together.
With Labour seemingly intent on implementing Austerity 2.0, cutting universal benefits such as the winter fuel allowance and refusing to reverse the two-child benefit limit, that approach will be more important than ever.
London People’s Assembly meeting at the Khalili Lecture Theatre, Torrington Square, WC1H OXG
Wednesday 9th October 2024 | 6.30pm
Join the conversation about how we build an anti-austerity alternative in London.
No to Cuts!
No to Privatisation!
No to Racism!
Speakers:
Eddie Dempsey (Assistant General Secretary, RMT)
Maryam Eslamdoust (General Secretary, TSSA)
John McDonnell MP
Paula Peters (DPAC)
Weyman Bennett (Stand Up To Racism)
Matt Prior (Unison, ESNEFT striking worker)
John Rees (Stop the War & People’s Assembly)
Join us.
Look out for further details on our plans for Budget Day – October 30th – when, once again, we will be making our voices heard.