Tag: local government

How Can We Make Labour Councils Fight Austerity? The View From Bristol
Bristol's mayor, Marvin Rees, has boxed clever on the anti-austerity surge within Labour. Yet the question of how to turn local government into a vehicle to stop cuts - and whether doing so is possible with the Tories in Whitehall - has divided the left.
How Local Authority Debt is Draining Millions from Public Funds
Inspired by similar campaigns in Spain, Greece and the global south, Debt Resistance UK has delved into the finances of local government to show how the financial system is siphoning public money into private pockets.