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To become a member of People Before Profit please send an email to join@lpbp.org.uk  The minimum subscription is £5 per year, but if you can make a regular monthly donation of £5, £10 or £20 that would really help us in our campaigning work.

To donate to our campaign fund please send a cheque made payable to Lewisham People Before Profit to 97 Armoury Road, Lewisham, SE8 4LB or by bank transfer to

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Pensions

People Before Profit supported the TUC Day of Action on 30 November 2011.

Picture of George Hallam on Pensions MarchEveryone deserves a decent pension when they retire, but the assault on public sector pensions will do nothing to improve private sector pensions. It will simply clear the way for employers in the private sector to drive down the pay and pensions of their staff even further.

Workers in the private and public sectors should join unions and campaign together to improve pension provision for everyone, and to oppose to cuts in jobs and services in general.

Most importantly, we would raise the State Pension so that it is no longer one of the lowest in Europe. People should not be forced to gamble on the stock market in order to have something to live on in their retirement.

The whole issue of earnings related pensions is questionable - why should those who earned more while working have a larger pension, when they are precisely the people who were more able to save something during their working lives.  Shouldn't the old age pension be enough to live on and the same for everyone, paid for from our National Insurance contributions and the Employers' contributions as a percentage of our earnings?

London PBP Objectives

London People Before Profit co-ordinates the activities of People Before Profit groups in various London boroughs.

 

It will campaign to win seats on the Greater London Assembly with the aim of bringing public services back "in house".

 

Because we have only recently decided to contest elections outside Lewisham, we are still in the process of drawing up our manifesto for London, but you can download the Lewisham Manifesto, updated at our recent party conference, by going to our Downloads section - see left hand column

People Before Profit Meetings

  • New Cross: Thursday 10th May 7.30pm
  • Special housing activists meeting to review and plan the housing campaign. Harts Lane Studios, Harts Lane, SE14 (behind T K Maxx in New Cross)
  • New Cross: Mon 14th May 7.15pm:
  • Regular monthly meeting to discuss LPBP activity at Come the Revolution, 465 New Cross Road, opp Florence Road, SE14.
  • Woolwich: Tues 15th April 7.30pm
  • Full meeting of Greenwich PBP at Rose's Bar, 49 Hare Street, Woolwich, SE18  Regular Greenwich PBP meeting to discuss housing, election, library campaign.
  • Catford: Weds 23rd May 8.00-10.00pm:
  • Informal get-together for people interested in getting involved over a drink in the London & Rye, 109 Rushey Green, Catford SE6 4AF

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