At the recent COR conference I was elected as Green Left’s representative on the National Council and have been on the Steering Committee of COR since its foundation a year ago. The National Council will meet in October to elect a new Steering Committee and I will be standing for re-election. Romayne Phoenix, former National Campaigns Coordinator on GPEx, and a leading member of both Green Left and the Green Party Trade Union Group has been the Chair of COR since its first conference last November and many other Greens have also been involved.
Recently following the riots in England’s cities COR held a very successful event in London called ‘Riots, Recession and Resistance’ which was addressed by among others, John Mc Donnell MP, Lee Jasper (Black Activists Rising against the Cuts) Symeon Browne (Tottenham Youth Worker) Zita Holbourne (PCS National Executive) and others. This was attended by many activists from communities affected by the riots, together with trade unionists and others. COR are organising a whole series of meetings nationally to address the issues around the recent unrest, not the least of which is cuts to public services and income inequality.
Here is the COR website with information on what is happening nationally.
http://www.coalitionofresistance.org.uk/
COR is also calling on the TUC (who are organising demonstrations at both the Lib Dem and Tory conferences) to ensure that the demonstrations are large and well organised and are doing everything possible to support them.
The same cuts and austerity programme which we are seeing in Britain is also widespread across Europe. COR is organising a Pan European Anti-Austerity Conference on October 1st in London which is being widely supported by a variety of social movements, trade unions and political groups across Europe, including Caroline Lucas. We want as many Greens as possible to attend the conference, which will also have a session on the G8 Summit taking place in Nice in November, where COR hopes to help organise a Counter Summit to challenge the prevailing economic orthodoxy in Europe.
Further information on the COR European Anti-Austerity website
Dr Joseph Healy is on the CoR steering committee
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