Thousands flood Brussels streets as anti-austerity protests erupt into clashes with police
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Excellent article by Paulo Gerbaudo about Jacobin Madrid’s Puerta del Sol by housing protesters. This newer movement has a clear left-wing focus on class.
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Best T shirt of the day. Thanks for the photo!
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Zoe Garbutt summarising what we’ve achieved today. But on organising going forward, I don’t agree with setting up lots of local groups, as suggested. We don’t have the capacity at local level. We need a national programme.
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Southwark Council Leader James McAsh talks about spending his whole adult life with austerity.
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Mandu Reid, former leader of the Women’s Equality Party, talking about the importance of storytelling in creating change.
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What about Stakeholder banking? There are working examples
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Ask No.4 - New, fairer ways to raise money Reform Council Tax and introduce new ways to raise funds that ensures wealthier property owners pay a fairer share.
A few builds on this from the audience, especially focus on wealthy landowners hoarding property and maybe just ‘local tax’
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Ask No.3 - more funding for more homes. Audience members asking for this to be changed to ‘council homes’ - round of applause. Need to also add ‘sustainable’ homes too. And commit to maintenance, stop the right to buy and end developer-led building.
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Ask No. 2 is cancelling local authority debt - ‘it is made up on a computer and can be written off’
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This is what we want at the #antiausterity summit, according to the delegate survey. Pretty simple, really!

‘The fight against the far right is the fight of our lifetime’ says Kebede. Round of applause.
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A cleaner from Southwark Council asks the panel about outsourcing her job to private companies. Zita replies that as soon as something is outsourced it drives down wages and workers rights. It becomes about profit not people.
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Kebede says we should not be investing more in defence. Why more weapons of destruction when we need SEND services.
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We need a tax on wealth and a levy on the banks, says Daniel Kebede. The banks are back to making record profits while communities are struggling.
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Why can’t we have rent controls, caps on utilities, adult social care support? Relatively small investment across a number of areas would have an immediate impact on poverty.
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Zita Holbourne listing the services that austerity took away. Libraries, community centres, early years, family support, SEND services and more.
Not forgetting the cuts to arts and culture and the vital role they play in wellbeing.
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Cllr David Watson welcomes the prime minister’s promise to work cross-party and say we must move away from the idea that austerity is inevitable. If we want strong communities we need strong, funded local government.
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Caroline Russell summarises the need for an intersectional approach, that involves the whole community, to tackle the effects of austerity.
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Paul Williams of ACORN describes how the poverty created by austerity has impacted the morale of society as a whole, creating the lack of trust in the system that leads to polarisation and the rise of the far right.
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