Leading RMT rail union activist and ISG member, Greg Tucker, will be standing as the candidate in Streatham against transport minister Keith HIll. Our campaign is about articumang the anger of local people and helping organise the lefence of our communities Labour's policies.
"As well as raising the vicion of an alternative society free from the iron rule of profit i believe that we can make a real difference to peoples lives today. I was sitting the eleven plus at how our class was being artificially divided into success and failure -futures seemingy decided there and then.
Speaking with a group of angy parents last week, for all Blunkett's "read my lips, no more selection" the situaton nas actually bol worse One after another they explained how they could not find local secondary schools prepared to take Their sons and daughters had had to sit entrance exams at each school they applied for - up to six times in some cases. No wonder their kids felt alienated branded as fallures again were straightforward - that the Labour council build new comprehensive schools to replace the ones they recently closed and sold off been given Conducting a fight: Greg Tucker flats, and an end to selection and the domination of religious schools across the borough.
Unlike Tony and his cronies they cannot pick and RMT. choose which better funded school to send their kids to. miles away from home.
We will be championing their demands, promoting their campaign for better than bon-standard provision Talking to local tenants, not be an MP ing remains a threat despite successful ballots defeating the Labour council's plans. in contrast we will be arguine the case for new council ing the tube. house building and a massive improvement strategy. nationally subsidise the government to the tune of 51 money in the interests of tenants and the homeless.
ands locally face being made homeless because of the contracting out of the lion were given to Siemens, roads were laid, and a new Metro station built to encourage the German giant to stay," says Peter. "But 12 months after the Queen had opened their North Tyneside works housing benefit service. Siemens had mothballed the Despite losing over site, with a loss of thousands 50,000 letters of of jobs across the region." nquiry and complaints.
The Nissan scandal reveals and forcetting to send the other side of the same out renewal forms when individual claims have COlD "Byers gave the ailing Japanese multinational C40 tractors, Capita, have an extra £4 million in a rescue package designed to keep the firm in milion by Labour help them improve. the arca. The price however was a new work regime with has been campaigning roductivity increases ol for Capita to be thrown 0%. The result - exhausted out. It is only one fur- and stressed out workers ther example of how pri- and the break-up of famivatisation is ruining lies" people's lives. Moreover the arrogant Of course, for me, and the reason I relish nership and bot air. Tix Free zones are promised and an increase in the budget of the development agency which will fund various clusters of firms which unite bosses trade union bureaucrats and Labour councils in endless talk or a sunrise revolution" and a new cultural renaisTyneside Socialist Alliance is internationalist, Peter argues. "We will expose the fraud of 'ethical foreign policy', in which Byers is deeply implicated. He is currently considering whether to provide $200 million in support for Balfour Beatty, the firm responsible for the Hatfield Rail crash, to build the Ilisu dam in Turkish Kurdistan."
The dam breaks all the guidelines of the World policies needed Byers come to dominate the politics of a region so overwhelmingly working class, with a history of poverty and unemployment, in wnica the bankruptcy of capitalism is so obvious revealed?
The answer which unites today's scandals with those of the past lies in the strength of the trade union bureaucracy, especially the GMB.
Union leaders are the kingmakers in North East polistrength of the working class to the rotten politics of right wing Labour.
The Socialist Alliance will be a voice for democment - a democratic alternative to secret deals between government multinationals THE NAS