Trades Councils Play Central Role in the Struggle Against Austerity
Moz Greenshields, Communist Party Executive Committee Member and Secretary of Derby Trades Council, argues trades councils must and do form part of a grassroots movement that is fighting the battle against austerity and war.
Communist Party Political Committee Report 11/06/2014
Speaking to the Communist Party’s political committee on Wednesday the 11th of June, international secretary John Foster warned that events in Ukraine once more demonstrated the dangers of Britain’s membership of NATO.
People’s Assembly National Demonstration 21st June
The People’s Assembly has called a national demonstration against austerity on Saturday 21 June
Liverpool People’s Assembly Flourishes
Report from YCL North-West: Hundreds of people packed out the hall at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool to hear prominent members of several unions, Owen Jones and the Secretary of the People’s Assembly itself; Sam Fairbairn. People queued out of the doors and up the stairs to hear the what was to be said.
Communist Party Chairman Bill Greenshields calls for “Struggle to go Beyond Rhetoric”
Communist Party Chairman Bill Greenshields argues that austerity and war walk hand in bloody hand; and that history has shown that austerity agendas are a naked form of class warfare. On May 2 1933 the Nazis attacked and occupied the buildings of the trade union movement of the German working class
People’s Assembly National Demonstration 21st June
The People’s Assembly has called for a mass national demonstration on the 21st of June to oppose austerity and in support of an alternative. The YCL calls for a great mobilisation in support of this demonstration. We will be calling on branches and districts up and down the country to come to London for the march on Parliament. We say […]
CP General Secretary on the Budget and the Peoples Alternative
Chancellor Osborne’s budget on Wednesday confirmed that the ruthless Tory-LibDem assault on the poor, the low paid, the unemployed, the sick and the disabled not only continues but will escalate. There will be no reversal of the austerity drive against public services, welfare benefits and the employment terms and conditions of public sector workers. l […]
Support the Women’s Assembly Against Austerity!
Anita Wright, Secretary of the National Assembly of Women and Communist Party Executive Committee, member calls for women to attend the Women’s Assembly Against Austerity in this article from the Morning Star. The YCL welcomes this initiative as ruling class austerity is hitting women, and even more especially young women, particularly hard. Cuts in legal […]
