Proposed Motion from Unite Community
This organisation notes:
1. The record levels of poverty recorded in the latest report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
2. That the new poverty figures show large increases in the number of old people below the poverty line.
3. That real wages continue to decline as part of a decade long trend.
4. That the government’s figures show that wages will continue to decline for at least another eight years.
5. That government borrowing is higher now than when the coalition government came to power in the 2011 election.
6. That the NHS, public housing and public transport are in an unprecedented crisis brought about by underfunding.
7. The forthcoming National Peoples’ Assembly titled “Change Is Coming: How can we achieve an anti-austerity government?”
This organisation believes:
1. That we cannot wait until the next election scheduled for 2022 to end austerity.
2. That the entire labour movement must renew its efforts to defeat austerity.
3. That a new, re-energised struggle to defeat that government must be planned and implemented by the labour movement as soon as possible
4. That the Peoples’ Assembly Against Austerity has proven itself one of the most effective umbrella organisations for uniting anti-cuts campaigns, trade unionists and activists across the labour movement.
This organisation resolves:
1. To affiliate to the Peoples’ Assembly Against Austerity.
2. To support and publicise the forthcoming Change is Coming National Assembly.
3. To send delegates to the Change is Coming National Assembly.
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