Activists from Climate Resistance have projected demands for wealth taxes at venues across Liverpool. The group lit up the city with its demands to coincide with the start of Labour Party conference.
Labour conference lit up to send a clear message: abolish billionaires
The guerilla projections, which illuminated buildings including the Liver Building and Albert Docks, demanded a “wealth tax now”:
Another called for Labour to “fund climate action”:
One projection made clear that Labour is not the party of the left:
Instead, it has been serving the interests of wealthy capitalists at every turn. Given this, Climate Resistance sent a message to the billionaire Labour backers calling the shots:
Labour needs reminding who it’s there to serve
The group’s action joined others ramping up calls for a wealth tax on the rich. On Monday morning, youth campaigners from Green New Deal Rising added their voices to this outside Labour’s conference. With ‘Rachel Reeves’ double in tow, the group enacted a mock Autumn Budget scene. Reeves’s doppelganger stood between two red budget boxes, one reading “billionaire’s budget”, the other “people’s budget”.
The top 10% in the UK hold more wealth than the rest of the population combined. According to YouGov, three quarters of Brits support a wealth tax.
Sam Simons, spokesperson for Climate Resistance, said:
It looks like the government has forgotten it is supposed to serve the people rather than company profits, so we decided to give them a little reminder. The alarming rise of the far right we’re witnessing right now is a direct result of the government’s cowardice in facing up to the real source of our problems: the profiteering of the super-rich at the expense of us all. Our bills are rising, our NHS is crumbling and our future is overshadowed by the threat of a climate breakdown. The only way forward is to tax extreme wealth out of existence and use the resources to fund public services and climate action.
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