EAPS Founding Statement

92 activists gathered in Acton High School on 11 November 2010 to launch Ealing Alliance for Public Services (EAPS). An agreed statement says that:

We believe that the austerity programme planned by George Osborne will increase unemployment and poverty, by dismantling the welfare state and public services.

We pledge to resist all welfare, benefit and pension cuts, as well as job losses, service closures or reductions and privatisations of essential services.

We want to see more not fewer jobs for all, especially the young, created through public investment in areas such as a National Climate Service.

We pledge to support all local, national and international protests and industrial action to oppose every form of austerity measure.

The event was sponsored by Ealing UNISON and NUT branches, Ealing Trades Council, the Right To Work campaign and the Labour Representation Committee.