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No More Cuts - Pre-Autumn Budget Discussion

With yet more cuts on the agenda, find out why real change has to mean ending austerity for good, how we build the resistance, and the case for investment in our future. The first in a series of events opposing - and explaining the alternatives to - never-ending austerity, held ahead of the Autumn Budget 2023


Tune into the discussion with former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, Economist and Author Grace Blakeley, Gawain Little of the General Federation of Trade Unions and BFAWU General Secretary Sarah Woolley.


Hosted by Arise - A Festival of Left Ideas. Supported by the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU.)

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