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As the markets tumble, and Corbyn campaign reflects anti-austerity anger...
GET TO MANCHESTER: 4 OCTOBER
PROTEST AT TORY CONFERENCE
T
HIS WEEK THE CHAOTIC
nature of the capitalist system
was exposed again. As was
the myth of economic recovery, as
Chinas stock market saw the most
dramatic one-day plummet in close
to a decade.
The turmoil in global financial
markets came as a stark reminder that
the austerity and cuts we are being
hammered with are about making
working class people pay for a crisis
caused by the rich.
Thats why the far left Labour
leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn is
gaining such incredible support.
He has stood firmly and consistently
against austerity, in support of striking
workers and anti-cuts campaigners.
The right wing of the Labour party
and the whole political establishment
are scrambling around, desperate for
anyone but Corbyn to win.
But their claims that Jeremy Corbyn
would make Labour unelectable ring
hollow in the wake of Ed Milibands
electoral disaster last May.
It is great that Corbyn has called
on his supporters to join the TUC
demo against austerity and for workers
rights at the Tory Party conference in
Manchester on 4 October.
While his huge support base is a
positive reflection of a will to fight
austerity, it is important that we dont
simply wait and rely on Corbyn to bring
changewe need to organise and fight
for it now.
Enemy
We face a Tory government that wants
the cuts to continue for five more years.
Theyve raised the idea of boot
camps for the young unemployed.
They are attacking our right to
organise with the new Trade Union Bill.
Alongside the right wing press they
are stirring up racism by scapegoating
migrants.
Someone needs to lead a serious
fightback against Cameron and Co
and the hundreds who are packing into
Jeremy Corbyns meetings are hoping he
might do the job. It would be a big step
forward for our side if Corbyn wins.
Weve been here beforeWe must say that WE WONT PAY FOR A CRISIS CAUSED BY THE RICH
But even if he does we cant wait until
the next election to resist the Tories.
We need a mass turn out at the Tory
Party conference and a huge demo against
the Trade Union Bill on 2 November
(called by the TUC).
Migrants
We also need to resist the attempt to
scapegoat migrants around the crisis at
Calais.
Its not migrants that are cutting living
standards its the Tories and the bosses.
And we need to get behind workers
fighting back. These include the
all-out strike at Londons National
Gallery against privatisation, action at
the National Museums of Wales and
Scotland, Unite council workers strikes
in Bromley against victimisation, and
strikes planned by transport workers
at First Great Western, City Cruises
and Eurostar. After solid strikes that shut
down the capital, London Underground
workers have won serious concessions
in their battle against Boris and the
bosses over Night Tube and attacks on
stations staff.
With the scale of attacks we face as
working class people, and in particular
with the looming threat of the new
Tory anti-union laws, we urgently need
the kind of mass strikes that could halt
the Tory attacks for good.
We should all celebrate if Jeremy
Corbyn wins. But with the Tories
on the offensive now, and we need
resistance now, led by the mighty
weight our unions hold, to stop them.
DEMONSTRATE!
SUN 4 OCTOBER
@ the Tory party conference,
Manchester
tuc.org.uk &
peoplesassembly.org.uk
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