[Campaignforrealdemocracy] Call for Libertarian Intervention Re: Coalition against cuts conference end of November

Thu Aug 5 20:24:02 UTC 2010

Presumably most people will have read about this initiative. Would anyone be
interested in a Real Democracy/Project 2012 working group to build up
a libertarian manifesto encompassing constitution, land tax, money reform,
debt cancellation and education alongside actions in solidarity against the
party conferences, Oct20th spending review and to connect in solidarity with
Nov27th and the follow on campaign? Let us show solidarity but also don't we
need a movement to free people and not just create a new state led status
quo?

>   [image: guardian.co.uk home] <http://www.guardian.co.uk/>
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> The time to organise resistance is now
>
> We reject these cuts as simply malicious ideological vandalism, hitting the
> most vulnerable the hardest. Join us in the fight
>
> ·                          [image: Tony Benn]<http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/tonybenn>
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> ·
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> o                                               *Tony Benn*<http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/tonybenn>
>  and 73 others
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> o                                               guardian.co.uk<http://www.guardian.co.uk/>,
> Wednesday 4 August 2010 15.32 BST
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> It is time to organise a broad movement of active resistance to the Con-Dem
> government's budget intentions. They plan the most savage spending cuts
> since the 1930s, which will wreck the lives of millions by devastating our
> jobs, pay, pensions, NHS, education, transport, postal and other services.
>
> The government claims the cuts are unavoidable because the welfare state
> has been too generous. This is nonsense. Ordinary people are being forced to
> pay for the bankers' profligacy.
>
> The £11bn welfare cuts, rise in VAT to 20%<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10371590>,
> and 25% reductions across government departments target the most vulnerable
> – disabled people, single parents, those on housing benefit, black and other
> ethnic minority communities, students, migrant workers, LGBT people and
> pensioners.
>
> Women are expected to bear 75% of the burden. The poorest will be hit six
> times harder than the richest. Internal Treasury documents estimate 1.3
> million job losses in public and private sectors.
>
> We reject this malicious vandalism and resolve to campaign for a radical
> alternative, with the level of determination shown by trade unionists and
> social movements in Greece<http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2010/jul/29/greece-national-strike-british-tourists>
>  and other European countries.
>
> This government of millionaires says "we're all in it together" and "there
> is no alternative". But, for the wealthy, corporation tax is being cut, the
> bank levy is a pittance, and top salaries and bonuses have already been
> restored to pre-crash levels.
>
> An alternative budget would place the banks under democratic control, and
> raise revenue by increasing tax for the rich, plugging tax loopholes,
> withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, abolishing the nuclear "deterrent" by
> cancelling the Trident replacement.
>
> An alternative strategy could use these resources to: support welfare;
> develop homes, schools, and hospitals; and foster a green approach to public
> spending – investing in renewable energy and public transport, thereby
> creating a million jobs.
>
> We commit ourselves to:
>
> • Oppose cuts and privatisation in our workplaces, community and welfare
> services.
>
> • Fight rising unemployment and support organisations of unemployed people.
>
> • Develop and support an alternative programme for economic and social
> recovery.
>
> • Oppose all proposals to "solve" the crisis through racism and other forms
> of scapegoating.
>
> • Liaise closely with similar opposition movements in other countries.
>
> • Organise information, meetings, conferences, marches and demonstrations.
>
> • Support the development of a national co-ordinating coalition of
> resistance <http://coalitionofresistance.wordpress.com/>.
>
> We urge those who support this statement to attend the Organising
> Conference on 27 November 2010 (10am-5pm), at Camden Centre, Town Hall,
> London, WC1H 9JE.
>
> Signed:
>
> *Tony Benn*
>
> *Caroline Lucas* MP
>
> *John McDonnell* MP
>
> *Jeremy Corbyn* MP
>
> *Mark Serwotka*, general secretary PCS
>
> *Bob Crow*, general secretary RMT
>
> *Jeremy Dear*, general secretary NUJ
>
> *Michelle Stanistreet*, deputy general secretary, NUJ
>
> *Frank Cooper*, president of the National Pensioners Convention
>
> *Dot Gibson*, general secretary of the National Pensioners Convention
>
> *Ken Loach*
>
> *John Pilger*
>
> *John Hendy* QC
>
> *Mark Steel*
>
> *Kevin Courtney*, deputy general secretary NUT
>
> *Cllr Salma Yaqoob*
>
> *Lee Jasper*, joint co-ordinator of Black Activists Rise Against Cuts
> (Barac)
>
> *Zita Holbourne*, joint co-ordinator of Barac campaign and PCS national
> executive
>
> *Ashok Kumar*, VP education and welfare, LSE student union
>
> *Hilary Wainwright*, Red Pepper
>
> *Francis Beckett*, author
>
> *David Weaver*, chair, 1990 Trust
>
> *Viv Ahmun*, director Equanomics UK
>
> *Paul Mackney*, former general secretary NATFHE/UCU
>
> *Clare Solomon*, president ULU student union
>
> *Lindsey German*, convenor, Stop the War Coalition (personal capacity)
>
> *Andrew Burgin*, archivist
>
> *John Rees*, Counterfire
>
> *Romayne Phoenix*, Green party
>
> *Joseph Healy*, secretary Green Left
>
> *Fred Leplat*, Islington Unison
>
> *Jane Shallice*
>
> *Neil Faulkner*, archaeologist and historian
>
> *Alf Filer*, Socialist Resistance
>
> *Chris Nineham*
>
> *James Meadway*, economist
>
> *Cherry Sewell*, UCU
>
> *Alan Thornett*, Socialist Resistance
>
> *Peter Hallward*, professor of modern European philosophy
>
> *Matteo Mandarini*, Historical Materialism editorial board
>
> *John Nicholson*, secretary Convention of the Left
>
> *Michael Chessum*, UCL union education and campaigns officer
>
> *Mark Curtis*, writer
>
> *Nick Broomfield*
>
> *Sean Rillo Raczka*, chair, Birkbeck College student union, and mature
> students' representative, NUS national executive
>
> *Robyn Minogue*, UoArts NUS officer
>
> *Prince Johnson*, NUS president Institute of Education
>
> *Roy Bailey*, Fuse Records
>
> *Doug Nicholls*
>
> *Granville Williams*
>
> *Gary Herman* (CPBF national council member, in personal capacity)
>
> *Louis Hartnoll*, president UoArts student union
>
> *Sarah Ruiz*, former Respect councillor and community activist in Newham
>
> *Michael Gavan*
>
> *Mary Pearson*, National Union of Teachers, vice president Birmingham
> Trades Union Council
>
> *Joe Glenholmes*, Unison, life member Birmingham Trades Union Council
>
> *Baljeet Ghale*, NUT past president
>
> *Jane Holgate*, chair of Hackney Unite and secretary of Hackney TUC
>
> *Marshajane Thompson*, Labour Representation Committee NC
>
> *Richard Kuper*
>
> *Chris Baugh*, PCS assistant general secretary
>
> *Trevor Phillips*, campaigner
>
> *Stathis Kouvelakis*, UCU, King's College London
>
> *Carole Regan*
>
> *Bernard Regan*
>
> *Roger Kline*
>
> *Hugh Kerr*, former MEP
>
> *Nina Power*, senior lecturer in philosophy Roehampton University
>
> *Norman Jemmison*, NATFHE past president, NPC
>
> *Kitty Fitzgerald*, poet and novelist
>
> *Iain Banks*, author
>
> *Arthur Smith*, comedian
>
> *David Landau*
>
> *Anne Orwin*, actor
>
> coalitionofresistance at mail.com
>
> ·                          guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media
> Limited 2010
>
>
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