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Keep on keeping on imageClick here for news of fighting back and battles won, alongside some sorry tales from voluntary organisations who’ve forgotten we’re meant to be heading for social justice not an unequal pay day. Plus a questioning editorial from NCIA’s Andy Benson: he’s never expected to be on the winning side, but wants to know who else is out there who we can join with to resist the assault on local voluntary and community action. Tell us if that’s you! Comment here on the website or email us: info@independentaction.net

  • Ben Stollery

    Yup, right there with you Andy, and am sure there are lots who share your call for our coming together to resist returning to ‘business as usual’. Guess it will have to be a single campaign, with a process and content that sufficiently encapsulates the new thinking so as to attract enough of our constituency. Instigate a dialogue on what that process and content should be? Suggest a timeline? 

    (Ahead of the G20 meeting at Gleneagles in 2009, over 100 organisations came together behind a particular manifesto; see http://www.putpeoplefirst.org.uk/about-us/policy-platform/. Something similar now would surely have the potential to take off?)

  • andy burton

    How about getting really serious about wage disparity and campaign to bring the maximum differential down by a freeze on anybody with income more than twice the current average with all surpus/profit shared between to those below average linked to a law preventing income and capital assets being hidden from public scrutiny. followed by a 4 day working week. Just pragmatism until the inevitable dawn of anarcho-syndicalism … andy