LEFT ECONOMICS ADVISORY PANEL
Is the Government’s bank the most ruthless repossessor? asks John McDonnell MP
It was announced today that Northern Rock – the bank fully nationalised by the Government – has massively increased the number of homes it has repossessed in the last quarter.
Read John McDonnell’s comments in Northern Rock seizes 32 homes a week from the Daily Telegraph
Today’s Unemployment figures:
John McDonnell MP, LEAP Chair, said:
“With unemployment rising, the Government should be ‘recession-proofing’ by injecting resources to save people’s jobs through large scale public investment in major housing, rail and renewable energy infrastructure schemes.
“There should now be an immediate moratorium on the proposed closure of job centres and 12,000 job cuts in the Department for Work & Pensions.”
Meetings
LEAP: The Economic Crisis – what role for social ownership?
Tuesday 4th November
7pm in Committee Room 5, House of Commons, London
Following the publication of the LEAP pamphlet Building the New Common Sense – social ownership for 21st century, LEAP leads a debate on what role for social ownership in the economic crisis.
Speakers include: Gregor Gall, Gerry Gold, John McDonnell MP, Rosamund Stock
Chair: Andrew Fisher (Editor of ‘Building the New Common Sense’)
Stand Up for Your Rights Festival
Saturday 18th October
2pm-8:30pm, Waterloo Action Centre, 14 Baylis Road, London, SE1 7AA. Tickets £10/£5
A one-day event organised by A World to Win. The historic struggle for rights in Britain will be presented through music, drama, poetry, films and political debate.
Confirmed speakers include Bill Bowring (Professor of Law at Birkbeck University), John McDonnell MP (LRC Chair), Global Women’s Strike, Coalition for Independent Action, Paul Feldman, Kevin Smith (Carbon Trade Watch), John Stewart (HACAN), Rahila Gupta (Southall Black Sisters), the Gypsy Council, London FBU, Ted Knight.
‘The Putney Principles’ and ‘Unfinished Business’ – New plays about the Levellers and the Chartists. Live music. Launch of ‘Unmasking the State, a rough guide to real democracy’ – a new book by Paul Feldman. Struggle for Rights timeline exhibition and film.
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Posted here by Glenn Rikowski
The Rikowski web site, The Flow of Ideas is at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk