Saturday, 13 November 2010

Lambeth Living worker: why we walked out on management

By a Lambeth Living worker

At the Lambeth Living (Lambeth Council's housing 'Arms Length Management Organisation') staff conference on 8 November there was a lot of anger and nervousness at the announcement of job cuts. Staff were especially angry that directors on salaries of over 100k year and consultants on thousands of pounds a month would announce to staff that they would be sacked at a hall in London Bridge costing £9000 to hire.

Thursday, 7 October 2010

Building an anti-cuts movement in Lambeth

An interview with Dan Jeffery, Assistant Branch Secretary of Lambeth UNISON, originally printed in the Solidarity newspaper. Dan was speaking in a personal capacity.

How did Lambeth Save Our Services begin, and how has it developed?

Save Our Services initially came out of Lambeth UNISON, GMB, NUT and UCU thinking there needed to be an anti-cuts campaign in the face of the huge cuts from both the Tory/Lib Dem government and the local Labour council. We then got various community groups and activists to come on board, produced 10,000 newsletters for the Lambeth Country Show and have organised several anti-cuts demos and lobbies. This resulted in saving over 50 jobs and stopping union-busting in the One O’Clock clubs and Adventure Playgrounds. We are now trying to stop the housing ALMO, Lambeth Living, cutting up to a fifth of its staff, including all the caretakers and much of the front-line services.

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

What it would mean for Labour councils to defy cuts

In many areas Labour councillors say they will "fight the cuts" - but also implement them!

They say they have no choice. In fact they can and should use their council positions as platforms to mobilise to defy the cuts.

Friday, 20 August 2010

Lambeth Save Our Services action meeting, 25 August

Lambeth Save Our Services - next Action meeting

Wednesday 25 August 2010
7pm-9pm
Room 29, Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton

The millionaire government is taking an axe to much needed public services and attempting to take away our welfare state.

They are cutting:

* At least 25% from councils which provide vital services like housing, libraries, parks, day centres and much more
* Benefits for the poor, parents and the elderly
* School building programmes and services for children

We call on Labour councils to stand with us to fight Tory cuts not implement them!

We are a broad based campaign bringing together community groups, trade unions, pensioners and Lambeth residents to fight have every job cut and every service cut.

Wednesday, 18 August 2010

Pakistan disaster - support the Labour Relief Campaign!

The number of people affected by the floods in Pakistan has now reached 20 million. More than 650,000 houses have collapsed, mainly in villages. Thousands of hectares of crops have been destroyed, along with people's livestock, household goods, clothes, shoes and other essential items. Millions are without drinkable water, food, shelter and clothing. Diseases like flu, fever, diarrhea and cholera are spreading fast.

Wednesday, 11 August 2010

Save Our Services wins first victory

By a UNISON and SOS activist

About twenty people attended the second Lambeth Save our Services planning meeting on 5 August - not bad considering it's the dead of summer.

The meeting started with good news. After the brilliant campaign led up by the UNISON members in One O'Clock clubs all of the jobs in Adventure Playgrounds and One O'Clock Clubs have been saved. (The council was sacking them and creating new jobs because, even though it saved no money, it could break up the union and prepare the way for future cuts.) As one of the women said at the meeting: "We've got 100% union density - we know they'll be back for us". Nonetheless a good start to the SOS campaign - and evidence, if more was needed, that struggle can win.

We agreed at the meeting:

• To lobby the next full council meeting and demand the right to speak. There was about a hundred people at the last lobby and it made it into the South London Press.
• To produce a regular bulletin.
• To hold weekend and lunchtime stalls.
• To arrange weekends where we go out on mass and go door to door on the bigger council estates trying to get people involved in the campaign.
• To hold a public meeting on 29 September.
• To consider the tactic of occupations.
• To write something about New Labour's "cooperative council" and what it really means.
• To organise a petition along along the lines of Labour councils off you knees (Labour councils should refuse to implement cuts).
• Get effected workers to local Labour Party meetings to argue against implementing the cuts.
• Join up with campaigns in other boroughs, especially those with Labour Councils.

Councillor Kingsley Abrams attended and talked about the need to realise that the campaign will have to take on Steve Reed and his concern that deals will be done between the unions and the Labour council which could undermine SOS. He's a councillor who was recently thrown out of the Labour Group, after a bizarre sting operation, arranged by the leader of the council and the chief exec, in which he leaked information to Vauxhall MP Kate Hoey.

Ted Knight echoed the point that we would have to fight the Labour Councillors as well as giving an inspiring and slightly fictitious account of his time in as Leader of Lambeth (since he did, in fact, cave in and make cuts).

At the first meeting we set the overarching principles of the campaign as "Fight Every Job Cut and Every Service Cut. Make Labour Councils Fight Cuts Don't Re-brand Them".

Wednesday, 21 July 2010

No cuts! Lobby Lambeth council's cabinet, 26 July

A hundred people lobbied against cuts in Children and Young People's Services in Lambeth on 19 July. A report is included below. Next week, we need an even bigger protest: join trade unionists, service-users and community activists protesting to the council's cabinet against their plans for cuts in services and jobs!

6.30pm, Monday 26 July
Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton (bottom of Acre Lane, a few minutes from Brixton tube)


A hundred workers, council tenants, parents, service-users and pensioners protested outside Lambeth council's 'Children and Young People's Scrutiny Committee', at very short notice, on 19 July. (Children and Young People's Services are the sharp end of the Labour council's cuts program, set to lose £20 million over two years.) About seventy went in to the Town Hall and gave the committee - who are obviously not used to being scrutinised themselves! - a very hard time indeed.

Lambeth 'Save Our Services' campaign broadsheet

Click here to download the first broadsheet produced by the new Lambeth 'Save Our Services' anti-cuts campaign, supported by Lambeth UNISON, GMB, NUT and Pensioners' Action Group among others.

Thousands of copies were distributed at the Lambeth Country Show on 17 and 18 July.

Contents include:
- Save our services
- Budget misery for millions of older people
- Defend education at Lambeth College
- Lambeth housing in crisis?
- Right to Work campaign
- Children's services under attack
- Why we won the Whittington
- 10 reasons why we are right to consider strike action / 5 reasons why local Lambeth people should support us

For printed copies of the broadsheet, ring the UNISON office on 020 7737 2134.

Tuesday, 6 July 2010

Kala Tara: the Asian Youth Movement and the fight against fascism in the 1970s

A film showing to open Ideas for Freedom 2010

7pm, Friday 9 July
The Exmouth Arms, Starcross Street, Euston, London NW1


In the 1970s, many thousands of British Asian youth became active around the Asian Youth Movement, a radical, secular, socialist-influenced network fighting against racism, police brutality and the threat of the far right.

Kala Tara (Black Star), a film named after the Bradford AYM's paper, tells the story. We are showing it to open Ideas for Freedom, the weekend of socialist discussion and debate hosted by Workers' Liberty (9-11 July).

We will be discussing what lessons the left can draw for the fight against racism and fascism today, and why the decades since the AYM's heyday have seen a shift from secular, leftist towards religious and communalist politics.

Plus Tower Hamlets activist Ansar Ullah will be speaking about the fight against fascism and Islamism today.

Facebook event here.

Thursday, 1 July 2010

Lambeth anti-cuts campaign launched

An initial organising meeting attended by 19 local residents and workers met today (30 June) at the UNISON office. Representatives of the local Pensioners' and Tenants' movements were present alongside members of local branches of the University and Colleges Union (UCU), the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and several members of Lambeth UNISON.

The meeting endorsed the following statement;

We, the undersigned resolve to work together to resist cuts in public services in Lambeth and beyond. We oppose;
* The cuts and redundancies announced by the Council in May;
* Further cuts arising from cuts in Grant Aid imposed by the Government;
* Further cuts arising from the Government’s Emergency Budget.

We support local people, service-users and workers who are organising to resist these cuts in services. Children’s Services are in the forefront of this first wave of job cuts.
We call upon the Council to resist rather than implement cuts in public services.

We call specifically for;
* Support for the joint trade union lobby of the Children and Young Persons Scrutiny SubCommittee on Monday 19 July;
* Support for a lobby of the Cabinet on Monday 26 July;
* The establishment of a broad-based “Lambeth Save Our Services” Campaign to support and co-ordinate opposition to cuts in public services.

We call upon all local trade unions, the Trades Council, community groups, tenants organisations, voluntary organisations, pensioner organisations, campaign groups, faith groups and Labour parties to support a broad-based “Lambeth Save Our Services” Campaign.


The meeting agreed to contribute to an Anti-Cuts Broadsheet to be produced by the trade unions represented at the meeting for distribution at the Lambeth Country Show on 17 and 18 July and discussed further campaigning activity which could be supported, including a community forum at which details of proposed cuts - and genuinely progressive alternatives - could be discussed.

A further meeting will take place after the lobby of the Cabinet on 26 July.

Saturday, 26 June 2010

Lambeth Activists Newsletter - Summer 2010

Download it here.

Inside
- Defend Every Job and Service
- Gaza - Break the Siege!
- The Truth About Temps
- No to Education Cuts
- Staff Conferences
- Letters from Lambeth

Saturday, 12 June 2010

Unison conference fringe meeting on sex workers' rights

Solidarity with sex workers organising and fighting back! Criminalising buying sex is not the way to support sex workers

A joint Workers' Liberty / Labour Representation Committee fringe meeting at Unison national conference
Opposing motion 117, which support the "Swedish model" on prostitution

Speaker from the International Union of Sex Workers/GMB sex workers' branch.
Chaired by Alison Brown, recently elected to Unison Health Service Group Executive (pc)

6pm, Wednesday 16 June
Premiere Inn Hotel, Westbourne Road, Bournemouth


For more information call 07886 399 638

Friday, 11 June 2010

Lambeth Unison motion on anti-fascism

Lambeth Unison has passed this motion in support of South London Anti-Fascist Group (for Facebook group see here) and the new, working class-based national anti-fascist network Stop Racism and Fascism (see website and Facebook). We urge other union branches and campaigns to do likewise.

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We note
1. The existence of a South London Anti-Fascist Group sponsored by Battersea and Wandsworth Trades council.
2. The good work this group has done, particularly in helping activists to build a strong anti-fascist campaign in the BNP target-area of Merton.

We further note
1. The launching of a new anti-fascist network, Stop Racism and Fascism, which raises slogans like "Jobs and homes, not racism" and "Black and white, British-born and migrant, all religions and none - workers unite and fight". The network seeks to build an anti-fascist movement which fights for positive, working-class solutions to the problems the fascists exploit (cuts, unemployment, lack of housing and services), and which is open and democratic.
2. That it is supported by anti-fascist groups across the country, including in London, Nottingham, Sheffield, Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester, Derby and Lincoln. The South London group sent a delegate to its first conference in Nottingham and to its first steering committee.

We believe
1. That while the BNP took a knock in the recent elections, it still received hundreds of thousands of votes and is almost certainly still growing. In an economic crisis and in the face of the huge cuts planned by the coalition government, a strong working-class anti-fascist movement is needed more than ever.

We resolve
1. To formally sponsor South London Anti-Fascist Group, donate £50 and send delegates to its next meeting on 14 June.
2. To formally sponsor the Stop Racism and Fascism network and send a delegate to its next steering committee.
3. To organise a meeting for members with speakers from SRF, Unite Against Fascism and Hope Not Hate as well as a debate on our No Platform policy.

Thursday, 3 June 2010

UNISON: who is really "self-serving"?

UNISON Active bills itself as "the first port of call for rank-and-file UNISON news and activities", "supporting a trade union that is committed to a fundamental change in society and that puts the interests and values of working people at its heart". In fact it is rumoured to be written by full-time officials and acts as the mouthpiece as the mouthpiece of UNISON's right-wing, class-collaborationist, witch-hunting bureaucracy.

In an article entitled "The self-serving conceit of a worker's wage", UNISON Active condemns left-wing general secretary candidates Paul Holmes (United Left) and Roger Bannister (Socialist Party) for their pledge to take only an average worker's wage if elected and their criticism of Dave Prentis' huge salary and perks.

1. "The ultra left candidates [present themselves] as ordinary ‘rank and file’ members when manifestly it is not the case. Both candidates opposing Dave Prentis have been seconded to full time union duties for decades and are paid on Principal Officer grades. They are among the top 10% earners in local government."
Being on 100 percent facility time and working in a branch as a locally elected officer, after working on the 'shopfloor', is not quite the same as being the union's top full-time official after never having worked in the industry it organises!
(That is before you compare what Holmes and Prentis have actually achieved: a strong union branch which has won major improvements for its members versus a national union more interested in witch-hunting socialists than organising or defending its members from the most savage attacks.)
On pay, the article is even more disingenuous. It's like the Evening Standard using the relatively high wages Tube drivers have won to justify bankers' bonuses.
Salaries for the PO grades in Kirklees council are between £28,000 and £51,000. Clearly this is more than most Unison members get. However: we haven't checked yet, but is it very unlikely that Paul Holmes is anywhere near the top end of that range - whereas in 2008-9 Dave Prentis was paid more than £92,000, with more than £11,000 expenses.
In any case, Paul Holmes has pledged to take only something between £25,000 and £30,000 if elected.

2. "It is contemptible that one of the candidates combines the employer’s pension contribution to give the false impression that the salary of the UNISON General Secretary is over £120,000. Unlike his opponents, the salary of Dave Prentis is a matter of public record" (the article then links to the website of the Certification Officer, the government official who registers trade unions).
That's how UNISON Active chooses to present it. The point is that Prentis receives £127,436 (£92,187 salary, £23,603 pension contributions, £11,646 expenses and car benefit) from the union. That's as much in pension contributions as the average UNISON member probably takes home before tax!
Those are the figures for 2008-9. We'll see how things have developed when the Certification Officer brings out this year's report.

3. "No rational trade union negotiator would say that UNISON - a complex UK wide organisation with over 1.35m members and 1200 staff – is paying its Principal Officer excessively or out of line with all other trade unions."
It's certainly not out of line with other trade unions - unsurprisingly, since all the unions are run by a self-serving bureaucracy. (On which, see 4 below).
Why does it follow from the fact that UNISON is a large, complex organisation that its Principal Officer should be on many times the salary of most of his members? Isn't that the same argument the bankers and bosses use to justify their huge salaries and out-of-control bonuses?
Do we really want unions where one of the reasons to run for high office is the possibility of becoming wealthy?
Do we really want unions where the top officials have a standard of living more similar to that of the bosses, and have lost all real memory of what workers' lives are like (not that Dave Prentis was ever a worker!), and cannot empathise with the situation most of their members face?

4. Unfortunately the article then goes to score a point against the left - due to the behaviour of the Socialist Party.
It reports how at last week's PCS conference, the SP-dominated executive opposed and defeated a motion which instructed "the NEC to immediately commence negotations with the GMB with the aim of ensuring that full time-officer pay rates in PCS are much closer to the pay received by the majority of PCS members."
UNISON Active comments: "That’s what happens when easy, populist, rhetoric hits the hard wall of organisational reality."
Socialist Party members should think very carefully about how their organisation's behaviour in PCS is providing political ammunition for the same right-wing bureaucrats who are witch-hunting their comrades in UNISON.

Monday, 26 April 2010

Lambeth Labour Blasted Over Living Wage Lies

On Saturday afternoon in the centre of Brixton, an event to demand the Living Wage for Lambeth organised by the South London and Lambeth sections of London Citizens. A large crowd had gathered, representing churches and mosques in Lambeth.

The political glitterati had also appeared – Tessa Jowell, Chukka Umunna (Labour candidate for Streatham and sometimes called the ‘British Obama’) Chris Nicholson (Lib Dem candidate for Streatham) the Labour Council Leader, Steve Reed and the Lib Dem group leader, Ashley Lumsden – no sign of the Tories.

Green Party Councillor, Becca Thackeray, had put a motion to Lambeth over a year ago asking for the Living Wage for contracted staff etc but it had been blocked by Labour.

However, when London Citizens announced that Lambeth’s contracted staff were not receiving a Living Wage – they produced a cleaner from Brixton Market, who told how he was trying to live on £100 per week and had a child to support also.
The Council Leader’s face was a joy to behold. But better was to come. As each politician placed a symbolic ballot paper into a box indicating that they would support the LW in Lambeth, they were addressed by a young Muslim activist from LondonCitizens who read out a formal statement.

As Reed prepared to pledge to vote, the LC speaker addressed him saying: “Cllr Reed, you told us some months ago that all contracted staff in Lambeth were paid a Living Wage but we have found out that this is not the case. We met with the Head of Procurement and she told us that Veolia staff are not receiving it.” Once again he looked stunned and his Cabinet Member for Finances, who was standing nearby was panicking. He then addressed the crowd and said that the only reason Lambeth had not paid the LW was because the previous administration had not placed it in the contract and this meant that they had to wait for a new contract.

This is not at all the case and a clause could have been placed in the contract for a Living Wage. Clearly the Cllr Reed was trying to wriggle out of his past and he then signed up to the promise to introduce the LW for all contracted staff, as did the Lib Dems.

Tessa Jowell tried to rescue the situation by stating that the Labour Party’s manifesto was calling for a Living Wage for all staff (cleaners etc) employed at Whitehall. Why this was not done before now? Ken Livingstone introduced the policy years ago.

Thursday, 8 April 2010

Anticapitalist Manifesto Online

The Anticapitalist Manifesto, Drinkall for Vauxhall: for the millions, not the millionaires is now online!


You can view it by going to Workers Power.


All feedback welcome!

Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Lambeth Labour manifesto threatens to sack ALMO

"We will give Lambeth Living 12 months tp improve quality of repairs , reduce the time taken to re-let empty homes , keep rent rises down and improve the service to leaseholders or we will sack them and put the service under new management."

This comes from an administration which told us that ALMOs bring a more efficient service than in directly managed authorities!

It is not clear whether this means bringing the housing managment back in-house under direct council control or whether it means continuing with the partially privatised arrangement under a new leadership.

Get your fellow tenants and election candidates to sign up to the Manifesto for Council Housing launched at the recent Defend Council Housing conference - go to www.defendcouncilhousing.org.uk for more details.

Thursday, 1 April 2010

Lambeth UNISON Election Vote Vetoed

The Unison website states that "UNISON is a member led democratic organisation".

However, a motion passed at a recent Lambeth UNISON Branch Committee, calling for an indicative vote at a hustings of local general election candidates, has been vetoed by UNISON's largely unelected regional bureaucracy.

Lambeth Activists have long campaigned for the democratisation of political funding in order for workers to advance their collective interests, rather than blindly fund a Labour Party that has publically promised to "cut deeper and tougher than Margaret Thatcher".

A motion previously submitted to Lambeth UNISON's Branch Committee, calling for the formation of a local voluntary political fund had already been vetoed. An amended motion was then passed calling for a hustings after which an indicative vote would be held.

An (unelected) regional officer has since advised Lambeth UNISON that to even conduct a show of hands at a hustings to gauge support for political candidates, could be in breach of national rules. "Rule J" states that political support and resources may only be given to the Labour Party through the Labour Link. This is despite the fact that the majority of members in Lambeth and nationally in UNISON have opted not to support to the Labour Party!

What then for the right of these members to collectively advance their interests in the political arena? It seems that Unison is not as "member led" as it claims to be.

Local Trade Unionists Stand for Parliament

Voters in the Vauxhall constituency of London will get the chance to vote for socialist alternatives to New Labour in May, with two trade unionists running against Labour MP Kate Hoey.

Jeremy Drinkall from Workers Power will be standing on an anticapitalist manifesto, saying on the streets and doorsteps that ordinary people should not pay for an economic crisis caused by the rich.

Jeremy, who is a teaching assistant at a local school, plays an active role as a Unison shop steward in Lambeth. He has taken part in local efforts to protect council housing and is on the steering committee of the national Right to Work campaign which fights against unemployment. Jeremy has long contributed to the work of Lambeth Activists in the local community.

Joseph Healy has been elected by Lambeth Green Party to stand as the Parliamentary Candidate for the Vauxhall Constituency at the next general election.

He is currently Male Co-Convenor of Green Left, the ecosocialist, anti-capitalist platform within the Green Party. He is also the Green Party's delegate to the Stop the War Coalition and an active anti-war campaigner. Joseph has also supported the work of Lambeth Activists, and indeed joined Local Government workers on the picket lines at Brixton Town Hall in 2008. He is also an active member of Unison.

We hope that residents of Vauxhall consider voting for one of these candidates with the aim of building a strong and democratic socialist movement in Lambeth, independent of political and industrial elites.

Whilst trade union bureaucrats are still trying to trick workers into voting for yet more job, pay and service cuts under Labour, Vauxhall residents can now use their vote to protect public services, the environment and the rights of trade unions to organise.

Friday, 26 March 2010

Campaign publishes socialist anti-BNP leaflet

The Socialist Campaign to Stop the Tories and Fascists is a new campaign supported by labour movement activists across the country, including John McDonnell MP. It supports a Labour victory, combined with a fightback by the unions against the anti-working class New Labour leadership. (For more see the website.)

The campaign has produced a special leaflet for union branches and anti-racist and anti-fascist groups campaigning against the BNP.

The text of the leaflet is below.

You can download copyable versions (either colour or black and white) here, or order copies by emailing stopthetoriesandfascists@gmail.com

£20 for 1,000 leaflets; for smaller orders please inquire.

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Socialist Campaign to Stop the Tories and Fascists

THE BNP SERVE THE RICH BY DIVIDING US


The British National Party are racist thugs, pretending to speak for the 'white working class', but actually spreading division and hatred among working-class people. No one will gain from their campaigns except the bosses and the rich.

What is the BNP?

The BNP exploits the problems we face - wage cuts, unemployment, lack of housing and services. It never supports workers fighting back. It is viciously anti-union. From the miners' strike, when it called for the army to smash picket lines, to the recent posties' dispute, it always opposes workers standing up for themselves.

Why is the BNP against unions? Because unions are about workers of all backgrounds - young and old, black and white, British-born and migrant, all religions and none - coming together to fight the bosses for better pay, conditions and rights. The BNP wants to divide us so the bosses can keep us down.

The BNP blames everything on politicians 'betraying Britain' - the capitalists calling the shots are conveniently forgotten. The BNP themselves are politicians of the worst sort. BNP leader Nick Griffin has claimed £200,000 expenses since being elected as a Euro-MP!

In fact, workers born in Britain have far more in common with workers who have moved here and workers in other countries than with the British bosses sacking them, cutting their wages and privatising their services!

If it ever comes to power, the BNP will destroy the unions and every democratic right. Its top brass are Hitler-worshippers. Workers voting BNP is like turkeys voting for Christmas.

Real problems - fake, racist solutions

The problems the BNP exploits are real. Things were bad enough before the recession. Now, though they argue over the details, the leaders of three main parties agree the working class should pay with cuts for the economic crisis caused by the bankers.

Without a strong workers' movement putting forward socialist answers to the capitalist crisis, the BNP will try to fill the gap with racist and fascist 'answers' - letting the real culprits off the hook and scapegoating migrants, asylum-seekers and minorities.

Immigration: BNP lies

The BNP claims Britain is filling up and that migrants are wrecking our public services, stealing jobs and driving down wages. Rubbish!

Where would the NHS or public transport be without migrant workers? Public services are overstretched because of cuts and privatisation, not because of immigration.

The reason thousands of families can't get a council house is because New Labour has kept the Tories' policy of selling off council housing and not building more. Meanwhile luxury offices and homes are built for the rich.

Migrants do not get a better deal. In fact, many asylum-seekers are denied access to services; many more are brutally locked up. 5.5 million British people are 'immigrants' in other countries. They have a right to acceptance there - and migrants from other countries have a right to acceptance here.

There is plenty of money in society to pay for decent jobs, homes and services for everyone - if the government taxed the rich, instead of giving billions to the banks.

To fight the bosses and win we need to unite workers across divisions of race, religion and origin, and demand equal rights for all, no matter where they've come from. Only the bosses benefit from a divided working class.

The working class should not pay for the bosses' crisis

The Visteon car components and Vestas wind turbine workers who occupied their factories to stop jobs cuts showed the way to fight back. So have strikers in the post, British Airways and education. Only struggle can stop the cuts - whoever is in power.

The unions should demand:

* Jobs for all. Cut the working week without loss of pay. Nationalise companies which axe jobs. Stop the cuts and create millions of public sector jobs.
* No wage cuts. A £9 an hour minimum wage, no exceptions. Decent pensions and benefits for all.
* Stop and reverse privatisation. Tax the rich to rebuild the NHS and public services.
* Decent homes for all. An urgent program of council house building and repairs.
* Nationalise the banks and use their profits for jobs, homes and services.
* Put MPs on a worker's wage, with strictly controlled expenses.

Fight for a workers' government!

The working class needs a government which serves its interests as the Tories, Lib Dems and New Labour have served the rich. We need a government which backs our struggles in the workplace and in the community. We need a government based on the grass-roots labour movement, which can solve the economic crisis by acting against the bosses, and taking control of the wealth which we create but they enjoy.

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Who we are

We want to stop the Tories and their plans for huge cuts and attacks on workers' rights. We want a Labour victory, but are organising to fight New Labour's Tory policies. Labour is different from the Tories because of its base in grass-roots working-class organisations like trade unions.

The unions should put forward working-class, socialist policies and kick out the anti-working class New Labour leaders, like Brown and Blair.

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Find out more:
stopthetoriesandfascists.wordpress.com
stopthetoriesandfascists@gmail.com
020 7207 3997

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