Fighting Fortress Europe - Pages 6-7: Trade unions Pages 9-12 The sick, the pensioners, the homeless, the poor, the jobless, students, school students, five million public sector workers, councillors... the list is endless of those who have been wilfully insulted or attacked by Blair's team, their needs and demands repudiated for fear of increasing public spending and raising taxes.
Conservative
More conservative than the Tories: less liberal than the Liberal Democrats, Labour has indeed been singleminded in courting the "floating" votes of the affluent middle class, promising them concessions at the exmood of revulsion against the Tories, a craving for a real change, for something different and better.
Labour's leaders have a historic opportunity to unite millions of the downtrodden and oppressed behind a package of policies that would swiftly change life for the better for the vast majority.
Instead it is promising to keep Tory policies largely intact for two years!
The last time Labour went into an election with a policy which was such a carbon copy of the Tories was under Gaitskell in 1959: they lost.
It doesn't have to be this way. Socialists must organise now for the fight to come to ensure a Labour government is not allowed simply 2. A 35-hour week without loss of pay, to create new jobs for the unemployed.
3. Abolish the Job Seekers Allowance, Project Work and all forms of workfare.
5. A crash programme of investment to rebuild the welfare state, halting cuts in education, the NHS and social services, and restore the value of the state penThese policies are to be financed through the imposition of steeply progressive taxation to impose Tory policies which will alienate and demoralise Labour supporters and pave the way for another spell of Tory rule. We offer our five points as the starting point for a programme that could beat the Tories - for good!
Cut out the five points and keep them for reference. We will be fighting, alongside many more trade unionists and campaigners for these whoever wins the election.
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