A great turnout at Edinburgh's Mayday march and rally today heard Owen Jones call on the labour movement to give people hope and defend the NHS, the welfare state and all that was won by 'struggle and sacrifice' in our history.
"We need to give hope to those who get up in the morning to go to work to earn their poverty. We should say that if you are in work the least you can expect is a living wage", he told the packed rally at the Pleasance theatre.
The money is there. Governments can always find billions for war, to bomb and to kill but they tell the disabled they can't afford for them to have a so-called spare room. They demonise those on benefits by talking up the £1.2 billion wrongly claimed, and doing nothing about the £25 billion lost in tax avoidance to the richest.
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Showing posts with label May Day. Show all posts
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Sunday, 6 May 2012
May Day celebrates City Not For Sale
UNISON urges new council to work together against cuts. For full report on the 2012 May Day Rally see http://www.unison-edinburgh.org.uk/
mayday/index.html
Speaking at the rally, branch president John Stevenson said, "There is an alternative and we need to keep telling them that. We need to keep telling our members that and we need to keep organising around that. (see full speech here)
mayday/index.html
Speaking at the rally, branch president John Stevenson said, "There is an alternative and we need to keep telling them that. We need to keep telling our members that and we need to keep organising around that. (see full speech here)
Saturday, 14 May 2011
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