Political activists in Harlow form an anti-cuts coalition

POLITICAL activists have joined forces to launch a Harlow-based campaign against public spending cuts.

Harlow Against Cuts

Members of the Harlow branches of the Labour Party, Respect, Socialist Workers and Socialist Party joined Harlow Trades Council representatives, trade unionists and pensioners in the town centre on Saturday to handgout leaflets detailing the potential impact of the cutbacks on public services.

The group, united under the banner of Harlow Against The Cuts, also collected signatures on a petition opposing the cuts programme.

Group convenor Paul Topley said: “The response from local people to our message was terrific. It seems there is very little support for the Government's brutal cuts programme.

“Most people believe that the poor should not be made to pay for a crisis caused by the super rich, who seem to be carrying on just as before living in the lap of luxury.

“Our message demanding social and economic justice by taxing the wealthy instead of the poor, building council houses to create jobs and reduce homelessness and increasing benefits and pensions rather than cutting them was one that received very widespread backing.”

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