Sentences with phrase «against austerity in»

That is why Next Generation Labour is calling for a Labour Assembly Against Austerity in October 2013.

Last weekend I attended the huge anti-austerity march and rally organised by the People's Assembly against Austerity in London.

The strong vote the weekend of July 4th against austerity in Greece increases the odds of a «Grexit» or Greek exit from the eurozone, in our view.

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«It's not really a change on being pro or against austerity, it's understanding that the supply response that we got from the reforms now need to be matched, with some demand response and Europe is in a very good position to do it,» he added.

People protest in New York City on Dec. 2, 2015 against austerity measures forced onto the severely indebted island of Puerto Rico.

Huge protests against austerity measures engulfed Madrid recently as angry voters displayed their discontent in the streets.

Apart from railing against corruption, austerity, and institutional inertia (as Ciudadanos does), Podemos backs a referendum on independence in Catalonia.

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

Ms. Caro Diaz is part of the Organizing and Capacity Building Team at the Center for Popular Democracy and provides support to social movements in Puerto Rico struggling against the debt and austerity measures proposed by a Fiscal Control Board.

Dublin's campaign to ratify the eurozone fiscal discipline pact is failing to build momentum against a backdrop of weakening economic growth and a wider European debate about austerity, with almost one - in - five Irish voters still undecided.

After recalling Tsipras coming to power as an unrepentant demagogue whose high - wire negotiations in 2015 cost Greece «100 billion euros» (in extra austerity measures), the opposition accuses him of «belatedly discovering investments» that he fought against.

The potential withdrawal of Greece from the euro at the very least emboldens left wing / nationalist factions in Spain, Italy, and France, who see the results of the Greek referendum as legitimizing rebellion against the diet of austerity imposed by Brussels.

«What I've found fascinating in the last week of this process has been the numbers of people — probably not in the Labour party, may not even be Labour voters — who have written to me to say thanks very much for speaking up against austerity and for speaking up against inequality in society,» he says.

Since then, Unite, under Len McCluskey, has been forthright in demanding a strong Labour platform against austerity.

BRUSSELS (Reuters)- Marine Le Pen's far right National Front scored a stunning first victory in European Parliament elections in France on Sunday as critics of the European Union registered a continent - wide protest vote against austerity and mass unemployment.

In fact, it was only last September that over 50,000 Mancunians marched against Austerity, a protest that intentionally coincided with the opening day of the Conservative Party Conference.

In fact, I don't remember her once standing up against any of the austerity policies which made the lives of those struggling to get by, so much harder.

Commenting ahead of tomorrow's TUC march in London against the Government's cuts and austerity programme, Christine Blower General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «This march will send a clear message to Government that their programme of austerity measures is not working.

It has the support of millions of people in the trade unions, has mobilised hundreds of thousands on protests against austerity and inspired hundreds of thousands of people to vote for Jeremy Corbyn.

Corbyn has said he is against austerity and believes in socialism.

Resisting this «with us or against us» mindset under Ed Miliband was what brought the Labour Left in from the wilderness, staking out our opposition to austerity, to the legacy of Iraq, and arguing for another way forward for the left.

At least what an account of Labour latest national policy forum revealed here on Left Futures in a piece headlined Trade unions vote against ending austerity in 2015.

Yes, the very same institutions that are backing strikes and protests against ConDem austerity policies stood aside when it was suggested to Labour's three - day national policy forum in Milton Keynes that Labour should not stick with Tory spending cuts in 2015/16.

These 2 parties, represent the progressive currents in Welsh politics and registered a clear combined majority of votes overall, then announced common policy objectives which could defend Wales against austerity and begin to build a foundation for economic recovery.

Fiona Edwards, a Student Assembly Against Austerity National Organiser, reports on Saturday's national demonstration and the next steps in building the fightback.

Ms Burrow also warned against the dangers of austerity: «Given a choice of economic policies, two - thirds of people support government action to invest in job creation to allow economies to grow and pay off debts compared with less than one in four who want debts paid off now by cutting back on government spending.»

This week's Sharp End asks if the left in Wales can unite against austerity.

Although tentative to start with, the upturn was strong enough in its final year for the chancellor to turn the electoral tide against his opposite number, who had predicted austerity would permanently «flatline» the economy.

Osborne's forecasts of continued austerity in the next parliament, a media and public discourse which continues to harden public opinion against claimants, and an ongoing failure to fix underlying causes of social security spend — by building houses and creating well - paying jobs — all mean that our social security system is heading in the direction of much more short - termism.

Sir Paul Stephenson told the Today programme he was extremely concerned by budget cuts set against the backdrop of a surge in demand on policing caused by unrest over the coalition government's austerity agenda.

And whilst Fianna Fail's vote had marginally recovered from their last general election collapse as a result of their own austerity policies and the catastrophic economic situation which saw the public pay the price for the bank bailouts, the population were clearly not returning in significant numbers, and on the contrary were turning against the right wing establishment parties.

Labour Assembly Against Austerity, September 24 2016 Commenting on Jeremy Corbyn's victory in the Labour Leadership election today, Lucy Anderson MEP, Vice-Chair of the Labour Assembly Against Austerity said: «The Labour Assembly Against Austerity welcomes Jeremy Corbyn's re-election as Labour leader, staking out how a Labour government would deliver a # 500bn public investment programme to -LSB-...]

Corbyn's message — against austerity, for public ownership — strikes a chord with many Scots who had abandoned the party in recent years.

There was a period in 2014 when disillusionment with austerity, the possibility of Scottish independence, and a firmer push against nuclearism by the Liberal Democrats in coalition and Labour under Ed Miliband could have aligned to shift the debate, but that moment has passed — at least for now.

The strikes are the most serious action in a continent - wide day of protest against austerity measures, which will touch London with a rally in Westminster tonight.

Social unrest has reached fever point in Athens as anti-government protesters take their struggle against austerity measures to the streets.

Part of Corbyn's push against austerity manifested in him appearing to advocate for a «Brexit»: a British exit from the European Union (EU).

He is seen as different from his competitors, even more so after the recent vote on the welfare bill in which the majority of Labour MPs abstained rather than vote against Tory austerity.

A move against this policy may also be a move against the Tory leader, at a time when the Leveson Inquiry edges ever closer to No 10's doorstep, Labour climb in the polls and the European growth versus austerity argument looks to isolate the prime minister.

When George Osborne stood up to deliver his «emergency» budget in June 2010, he proudly announced that despite the drastic austerity measures the Treasury was taking to tackle the deficit, he would keep up the battle against child poverty.

The shadow business secretary said that it was a vote against the political establishment and austerity, and that coming second in the poll was «really good» for Labour.

At times, it was difficult to see any difference between what they were saying, as they were both very much against austerity and very much in favour of government investment.

But MPs say «factions are massing against him», with his Google tax gaffe adding ammo to those angry with Mr Osborne for his tax credits u-turn, ditching of austerity and determination to stay in the EU.

Where voters had the opportunity to vote against austerity, i.e. in Scotland where the SNP took a position to the left of Labour, they did so in droves and wiped Labour out.

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Like the handful of British modern painters who are his peers — Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and David Hockney — he rebelled against the austerity of abstract art and instead put the human self, in all its desire and suffering, at the centre of his universe.

The central theme in recent paintings is the experience of living in a moment of radical inequality, austerity, and accelerated time, set against the powerful pull of older notions of time, craft, and visual pleasure.

In part a reaction against the austerity of minimalism, Neo-Expressionism was mainly a figurative movement which emerged from the early 1980s onwards.

The year & place Auerbach was born - a time when the popularity of the Nazi party was on the rise in Germany against a backdrop of uniform resentment at the austerity and unfairness of the Treaty of Versailles.

Tobias Zielony, Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk, Hito Steyerl, and Olaf Nicolai — the artists exhibited in the Venice Biennale's German pavilion this year — have taken a strong stance in protest against the German government's decision to impose austerity measures on Greece, according to Artnet's Brian Boucher.