People's Assembly Against Austerity

The People's Assembly
The People's Assembly Against Austerity
Formation2013
TypePressure group
HeadquartersLondon
Key people
Steve Turner
Nick McCarthy
Alex Gordon
John Rees[1]
Laura Pidcock
Lindsey German
Ramona McCartney
Fran Heathcote
Paula Peters
Andy Bain
Websitehttps://thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/

The People's Assembly Against Austerity (also known as The People's Assembly) is a political organisation based in the United Kingdom that was originally set up to end and reverse the country's government-instituted austerity programme.

The People's Assembly was launched in 2013 to bring together the various progressive left trade unions, campaigns, and activists in a movement against austerity. It aimed to "push the arguments against austerity" that it saw as missing from British politics at that time, and to fight for those people it saw as being hit by Government policies, including low-paid workers, disabled people, unemployed people, the young, black, minority and ethnic groups and women.[2]

Its current National Secretary is former Labour MP Laura Pidcock.[3][4]

  1. ^ "National meeting report". The People's Assembly Against Austerity. Archived from the original on 30 December 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  2. ^ Jones, Rhian E. "Can the People's Assembly revive the Chartist spirit?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 September 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
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