The government is attacking public services to pay for the bankers’ crisis. These cuts affect everyone, but have hit the poorest harder with redundancies, wage freezes/cuts and cutbacks in benefits and public services. Meanwhile the profits, salaries and bonuses of the very richest soar.
Mass campaigns are needed to oppose these attacks and genuinely anti-cuts
councillors could help develop those campaigns. Unfortunately the Green
administration is in disarray as it has failed to take a firm line and refuse
to implement cuts.
Staff at the bin depot face significant pay cuts, but why
should they or any Brighton and Hove staff, service user or resident pay the
price for the government’s cuts?
Labour councillors voted with the Tories at the
last budget meeting to increase the level of cuts! Across the country the
handful of Labour councillors who vote against the cuts were expelled!
We need a genuine anti-cuts challenge in Brighton and Hove
council not hand-wringing and crocodile tears.
A single NO-CUTS councillor
would be able to help build campaigns in our communities, workplaces and unions
to defend our jobs and services.
• No Council
Tax Benefit Summonses
• No to
Academies and Free Schools – For Local Comprehensive Schools
• Support the Campaign against
outsourcing and privatisation at University of Sussex
• Build mass campaigns locally to
defend benefits, stop NHS privatisation
• Build trade union strength and
support the call for a 24 hour General Strike against austerity
·
Oppose the
development of National Park grade Downland at Toads Hole Valley
