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John McDonnell is MP for Hayes and Harlington, whch he has represented since 1977. He is the Chair of the Socialist Campaign group of Labour MPs and the Labour Representation Committee.
Articles from the John McDonnell column of the magazine.
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John McDonnell - PCS Speech |
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 11:33 |
“We aim for the socialist transformation of society”
John McDonnell MP, speaking at the PCS Conference, sets out the policies underpinning his bid for the Labour leadership.
Essentially the policy advocated by Clegg, Cameron, Miliband and Balls is that this economic crisis – which was caused by rapacious financiers, with the collusion of government ministers over 30 years – will be paid for not by those who caused it, but by me and you. And you know you’re in the front line of that attack when they call for public sector workers to be sacked. It will be paid for in cuts in public services, jobs, pensions, welfare benefits and conditions of employment.
If I’m blocked from the leadership campaign, and the debate about the future of the Labour Party is stifled, where do we go from here? Over the coming year, we should launch a campaign to explain the truth of how this crisis was brought about, who was really to blame and how it can be resolved.
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John McDonnell - June 2010 |
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Friday, 28 May 2010 17:13 |
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John McDonnell MP launched his campaign to be the next leader of the Labour Party at a Labour Representation Committee fringe meeting at PCS Conference. Below is an edited extract of his speech.
Some of you will know what’s been happening in the Labour Party recently. In 2007, I came to this conference and received a very warm reception. It was the day I had to concede that I couldn’t get on to the ballot paper for the Labour Party leadership and what then happened was a coronation of Gordon Brown. We had this bizarre spectacle of only one name on the ballot paper.
It’s moved on now. There has been a democratic transformation of the Labour Party. We are now going to have one family on the ballot paper!
I’m told today that Ed Balls is going to announce his candidacy. So we’ll have the sons of Blair and the son of Brown and in a few years time, at the next General Election, we may well have the son of the General Election defeat of 2010 if we don’t re-establish democracy within the Labour Party.
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