The Con Dem government has subjected us
to attacks on pensions, services, jobs, and welfare. However there is
no alternative available to working and poor people; the Labour Party
supports the cuts and offers no way to challenge them. The Green
Party is administering cuts in Brighton, again with no strategy to
fight back.
The Trade Unionist and Socialist
Coalition (TUSC) is an electoral alternative supported by leading
figures in the rail, teaching, civil service, prison officers and
fire-fighters trade unions, along with many socialist parties and
groups.
The U.K. is a polarised nation. The
richest 1,000 individuals saw their personal wealth grow by 30% in
2009/10 alone; in 2012 their collected wealth came to £414billion, a
sum which could wipe out the deficit nearly four times over!
Unemployment, according to official sources, now exceeds 2.6 million.
In Brighton & Hove there are 10,000 living in child poverty with
health and educational implications.
Cuts are not necessary; the money is
there in society not only to stop the cuts but to improve public
services through investment. Tax avoidance and evasion by the rich
costs the economy £120 billion a year.
Local councils and MPs need to
fight-back against these cuts. They must use their powers to
encourage campaigns against every outsourcing, against every academy
and against every cut. The government mustn't be allowed to get away
with anything without being challenged by the people whose lives they
are affecting. As your TUSC councillor I will do everything I can to
build a movement and campaign against every attack to the community
and individuals, as well as do my utmost to represent you and
campaign on your behalf.
Local councils led by councillors
claiming to be anti-cuts must build a campaign to win back the
funding that is currently being robbed from us. Liverpool Council in
the mid 1980’s won £60 million from the Thatcher administration
through a mass campaign, enabling mass house building and job
creation. As a TUSC councillor I would fight every cut and use the
role as a platform to build a mass campaign, not just talking about
fighting back, but encouraging the community to fight back.
In Britain there is a desperate need
for a party that stands up for ordinary working and poor people –
we need party worth voting for, not just the lesser of two evils!
TUSC is a big step towards such a party – if you agree, join us in
building the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition!
The Trade Unionist and Socialist
Coalition fights for a genuine party of the working-class and poor.
All of the mainstream parties are wedded to cuts, privatisation,
protecting big business and the banks over the interests of everyone
else. TUSC stood candidates in every Brighton and Hove election since
2010 and aims to build a new mass workers party. For more information
please contact: tuscbrighton@gmail.com
For a full list of our policies and
campaigning demands please visit: www.tusc.org.uk
