People’s Assembly Autumn Offensive
We Won’t Pay For Their Crisis
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Next year marks ten years since the founding of The People’s Assembly by thousands of trade unionists and community campaigners. In the past decade, we have organised hundreds of marches, protests, rallies and meetings in towns and cities across England, Scotland, and Wales. The People’s Assembly has inspired thousands of activists to build People’s Assembly groups and campaigns in their communities against cuts to public services. Now, as the Tory government prepares to ram through even more draconian anti-union laws to prevent workers taking action to defend themselves, from ‘Fire and Rehire’ and the Cost-of Living crisis, we are all facing the fight of our lives.
This is why The People's Assembly is asking for your continued support to help us take our simple message onto the streets over the next few weeks - We won’t pay for their crisis!
Millions of households are already struggling to pay for basics such as food, housing and energy. Average household energy bills are predicted rise to £4200 a year this winter. The Bank of England now officially forecasts economic recession and higher inflation for most of 2023.
At the same time, we are seeing our incomes fall in real terms and we are living in a time of societal collapse.
But not everyone is struggling. Energy companies report record profits. Others, including supermarkets, transport firms and landlords are enjoying an absolute bonanza. Their profits and rents come from the pockets of ordinary people who are already struggling - even before winter comes.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
This government has no popular mandate for its policies that punish workers and their families. But unless we mobilise real determined opposition to government policies, vicious attacks on working class people will continue.
The People’s Assembly is therefore calling on all our supporters to help us to mobilise the biggest, most united voice of workers and communities from every corner of Britain in the coming weeks.
We put real pressure on the government to end the Cost-of-Living Crisis by mobilising an organised protest movement on the streets of our towns and cities with a message that will unite our communities.
Will you support us?
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The Autumn Offensive
upcoming events:
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1. Protest the Tory Party Conference
2 Oct 2022, 1pm, Victoria Square, Birmingham
2. National Demonstration
5 Nov 2022, London, Assemble Embankment, WC2N 6NS
We will also have a third winter event:
3. People's Assembly National Conference
15 January 2023, London
Low-cost coaches will be organised from as many towns and cities as possible.
More details on all of these will follow.
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Supporting the increasing numbers of strikes and pickets is crucial. Successful strikes not only achieve better pay etc, but they raise political consciousness and confidence and show what is possible when we collectively organise.
Getting down to a picket line to offer solidarity to strikers can really boost morale and keep strikers going. You can also organise solidarity rallies and meetings through your local People's Assembly group or get your union branch to send messages of solidarity and donations to strike funds. For details of strikes and pickets near you, see Strike Map.
Some important national strikes:
Thursday 18th and Sat 20th August
RMT and TSSA members striking across the rail network. (London will also see strike action on Friday 19th as RMT and Unite members strike on the underground and overground, with Unite bus drivers taking action on the same day).
Friday 26th August, Wed 31st August, Thursday 8th September
CWU Royal Mail members
Friday 26 August
CWU Post Office members. More postal strikes will take place the week after. On Sat 27th, CWU Crown Office members are striking, On Tue 30th, CWU Supply Chain and Admin members are striking.
Tue 30th August and Wed 31st August
CWU BT Group and Openreach members.
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The People's Assembly recently become a member organisation. Why not join us and be part of building a strong and united movement for progressive political change? The Power is in our hands. No one is going to bring the change we need but us, collectively.
Our membership system will help us move to another level of mobilisation and activism, as well as build our local groups.
Click here to become a member.
If you'd also like to be involved in The People's Assembly at a local level, meet like minded people and be part of making local and national change, please email us: [email protected]
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