TUSC General Election Launch Rally
In the forthcoming general election
the three main parties are all going
to be offering a diet of cuts in public
services and attacks on pay, pensions
and conditions. The Trade Unionist and
Socialist Coalition (TUSC) has been
founded in order to stand anti-cuts, proworkers’
rights candidates.
The nightmare prospect of a Tory
government will mean that some trade
unionists feel that they have no choice
but to vote for New Labour. However,
there are no fundamental differences
between Tory and New Labour policies.
While a Tory government would be
likely to wield the axe more brutally,
both parties have made it clear that they
would slash public spending.
None of the three establishment parties
act in the interests of working or middle
class people. For them it is the interests
of the billionaires that come first. It is the
absence of a genuine workers’ party that
has, in some areas, fuelled the growth
of the far-right racist BNP.
TUSC has been founded to begin to
offer a real alternative to both the probig
business, pro-banker parties and the
vile racism of the BNP. Working-class
people need candidates that actually
stand up in our interests. We need
candidates who stand on a programme
of no cuts in public services and for renationalisation
of the privatised utilities.
Candidates that fight for a living pension,
a decent minimum wage and for free
education, for all. Candidates that stand
for the repeal of the anti-trade union
laws.
We appeal to you to become a sponsor
of TUSC, so that we can stand as widely
as possible.
Speakers include:
Bob Crow the railway workers’ union (RMT) general
secretary
Brian Caton the prison officers’ association (POA) general
secretary
Chris Baugh the civil servants’ union (PCS) assistant
general secretary
Dave Nellist Socialist Party councillor
Michael Lavalette Socialist Workers’ Party councillor
Thursday 25 March, 7.30pm
Friends Meeting House, Euston
Road, London, NW1 2BJ
