In honour of Bob Crow and Tony Benn

Assemble 12pm at Clerkenwell Green, EC1 London with rally at Trafalgar Square

The People's Assembly is organising a national demonstration and free festival on Saturday 21 June. Help make it massive!

The Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury signalled his support for the introduction of a so-called “Robin Hood Tax” on financial institutions as he gave a powerful speech to an anti-austerity meeting.

A greater resolve is urgently required from Scottish politicians in tackling widespread social injustice, writes ELAINE SMITH

People's Assembly Press Release
Wednesday 19 March
For immediate use

Today protests will take place across the country demanding an alternative to Osborne's austerity budget. 

Letter to the Guardian published 16 March 2014

Your main coverage of the death of Tony Benn (Obituary, 15 March; Michael White, 15 March) was ungenerous, and did little justice to the man who was one of the most loved political figures in Britain today.