Tomorrow, Tuesday, 25 November, the night before the Autumn Budget, we’re taking it to Downing Street.
We want a People’s Budget, not another stitch-up for the rich.
We’re protesting to demand:
An end to the cost-of-living crisis.
Welfare, not warfare.
Public services are rebuilt by taking wealth and power back from the billionaire class and handing it to the many.
Millions voted for Labour, expecting change. Instead, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have carried on the same managed decline and austerity we’ve had for years. Another Budget is being lined up to make the rich richer and tell the rest of us to “wait our turn”.
You can wrap austerity in a red tie, but when it hits our streets, our hospitals, our schools and our pay packets, it still means cuts, charges and closures.
Labour promised to repair the public realm. What we see instead is a Budget being built to please the same old interests – the people who walked off with the gains of the last 15 years and a financial sector that sees our services as “costs” to cut, not lifelines to fund.
There’s always money for:
Consultancies that swallow public cash, private profiteers who turn our needs into their dividends,
Massive hikes in military spending and the construction of new arms factories. But when it comes to our wages, our benefits, our housing, our NHS, we’re told: “there is no money.”
We don’t accept that.
On the eve of this Budget, we’ll be outside Downing Street with a different message, simple working-class common sense this government refuses to hear.
Our demands
1. MAKE THE RICH PAY
We’re done being told there’s “no money” for schools, the NHS or our councils. There’s plenty of money, it’s just hoarded at the top. The top 10% in Britain now own over 50% of the wealth. Extreme wealth goes untaxed, loopholes are left wide open, and Corporate profiteers are allowed to bleed our communities dry.
From the 2008 crash to today’s cost-of-living crisis, we didn’t cause these crises, but we’re the ones paying the bill:
Cuts to wages, benefits, pensions and services, rising rents, bills, prices and debt. Meanwhile, the rich and the corporations who caused the mess walk away richer and more powerful.
This Budget must tax wealth, not work. No more squeezing workers while billionaires and big business get a free run.
Make the rich pay.
2. WELFARE NOT WARFARE
This government is ramping up military spending, marching in step with US foreign policy, and pouring public money into weapons while our services are cut to the bone.
Earlier this year, they:
Cut disability benefits and overseas aid, threw £1.5 billion at six new arms factories, £15 billion on new nuclear warheads, billions more on twelve US fighter jets designed to carry nuclear bombs.
They plan to jack military spending up to 3.5% of GDP by 2035 – around £36 billion, roughly £500 per person a year.
Every extra pound for the war machine is a pound taken from:
Health and social care, housing and local services, schools, youth services and support for the vulnerable.
We choose fully funded welfare, social care and health care, not new weapons and more wars.
Welfare, not warfare.
3. REFUGEES NOT TO BLAME
While they slash services and hold wages down, they try to turn us against refugees and migrants.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s plan to force asylum seekers into 20 years of limbo before they can settle in Britain is about cruelty and division, not fairness. It feeds the same racist politics that fuel abuse on our streets and boost the fortunes of Reform UK.
Scapegoating migrants is a deliberate distraction from the real problem: a system rigged to funnel wealth to a tiny elite.
We won’t fall for it. We won’t be divided. We stand with people seeking safety, and we blame those who deserve it: the rich and powerful who profit from our hardship.
We’ve always won by standing together. Every gain working people have ever made came from organising and refusing to accept injustice, from the Chartists to the suffragettes to the trade union movement. Protesting this Budget is part of that living, fighting tradition. The eve of Budget Day is an organising moment, a chance to bring together:
Unions, community groups, anti-war Campaigns, Disabled People Against Cuts, climate campaigners, tenants’ groups and students in a collective show of working-class power.
Clock off from work tomorrow and clock in to the fight for our future. Bring your friends, your workmates, your neighbours, your union banners, and plenty of noise.
In London, we’ll be joined by voices from across our movement, including:
Zarah Sultana MP
Fran Heathcote (PCS)
Daniel Kebede (NEU)
Paula Peters (DPAC)
Lindsey German (Stop the War Coalition)
And many more.
Protests across Britain
There will be actions across the country against the Autumn Budget and austerity. Join one if you can:
Tuesday 25 November
Cardiff – 6pm, Aneurin Bevan Statue, Queen Street
(Called by The People’s Assembly)
Wednesday 26 November
Sheffield – 11.30am–1.30pm, opposite Sheffield Town Hall
(Called by Sheffield People’s Assembly)
Birmingham – 5pm, Chamberlain Square
Derby – 5pm, Derby Bus Station
(Called by People’s Assembly)
Manchester – 5.30pm, St Peter’s Square
Unite Community National Day of Action
Cut Sanctions, Not Benefits – Britain Needs a Wealth Tax.
Contact your local Unite Community branch for details.
We will not be sweet-talked into another turn of the austerity screw.
We will organise for people before profit, services before surplus, and a Budget that finally serves the people who actually pay for it.
See you on the streets.
In solidarity,
Ramona McCartney, Acting National Secretary
The People’s Assembly
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