Welcome To Coventry Socialist Party

Thank you to all Socialist Alternative voters!

The Socialist Party would like to thank all of our voters who came out to support us in the local elections. We ran an excellent campaign. Unfortunately we narrowly lost our seat in St Michaels by just 204 votes. We fought hard and ran Labour very close. Dave Nellist and the Socialist Party will not be going away! We increased our vote across the city and came 3rd in terms of total votes cast across Coventry - increasing our share of the vote by 1.66%, up to 5.35%. We will post more reports and analysis in the coming days and weeks. The fight goes on! 

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 Tories stand for the 1%... We need a voice for the 99%!

Only one week after the government's budget of new, swingeing cuts in jobs and services, accompanied by huge tax breaks for the rich and big business, it's been revealed that super-rich Tory party donors had earlier wined and dined with the prime minister, David Cameron. This 'cash for access' expose is just another example of the rottenness of the capitalist political system and how the establishment parties are completely intertwined with big business, as Coventry Socialist Party councillor Dave Nellist explains.

'Cam dine with me' is secret influence. Millions of pounds change hands and, I have no doubt, favours for millionaires ensue. Just look at the cut in the top rate of income tax and the cut in corporation tax for example.

I'm not surprised it still goes on - capitalist politics is not about organising society and its resources to benefit the majority; it's about a thin privileged layer - the 1% - buying individual influence for measures to benefit individuals, a tiny minority - and done at the expense of the 99%.

But four dinners in Downing Street, or even one at Chequers, isn't only what is really rotten in politics.

There's a thousand more ties from the playing fields of Eton, via Oxbridge, to the Bar and the boardroom, where the tiny minority who rule the country mix and form allegiances. As David Cameron said: "I have known most of those attending for many years".

That layer of capitalist politicians have a loyalty to a system that brings wealth and security to a tiny fraction of the country - at the expense of poverty and insecurity for millions. That's what needs challenging.

And Labour, with its ties to business interests, involving so many ex-Cabinet ministers in directorships and lobbying firms, is little different.

Trade unions should break with labour and instead discuss funding a radical socialist alternative - the trade unionist and socialist coalition - that condemns the corruption and patronage in parliament and big business.

He who pays the piper...

A handful of the guests at four dinner parties at Number 10 had given £18 million to the Tory party - and also, apparently, money to climate change deniers and eurosceptics. They included hedge fund traders, oil traders and the odd billionaire city businessman.

According to Tory MP Andrew Tyrie: "Prior to 1997 about 6% of public companies made donations to the Conservative party, but 50% of knighthoods and peerages went to the directors of companies who made such donations. A coincidence? I doubt it."

But was it much different under Labour? As the party progressively embraced Tory and big business policies, particularly in the 1990s, so did it ape their fundraising methods.

Labour Party conference stopped being 'a parliament for the labour and trade union movement' and filled up with corporate sponsors paying thousands of pounds for seats at dinner tables with Labour leaders in what used to be called "a specially designed commercial package for business visitors to conference". One such company donating £36,000 for dinner tickets and conference tables, was Enron - the company involved in the world's largest securities fraud!

‘LANDLORDS FROM HELL’

 St Michaels’ socialist councillor,

Dave Nellist fights them

 New Labour picks

letting agent as candidate!

 See below the Latest leaflet for St Michaels ward in Coventry.

Coventry Socialist Party Councillor Dave Nellist     

Interviewed for BBC Politics TV piece on the anniversary of the start of 1984-85 miners'strike.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17401159

Socialist Party member and Youth Fight for Jobs campaigner on Newsnight

The Socialist Party has been at the forefront of the campaign against the slave labour Workfare schemes. We urge you to consider joining us! Click here to join

Coventry protest against slave labour

No to Workfare!

Join the 'Name and Shame' tour

Saturday 25th Feb

meet 12pm outside Tescos in City Centre

Organised by the Youth Fight for Jobs and Education campaign

Join Youth Fight for Jobs as we take you on a tour round Coventry's potential 'Workhouses'.

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Gasp with horror and recoil in shock as we name and shame to the public and workers which retailers will be taking on JSA claiments in return for their benefit payments.

Say no to slave Labour Workfare! Fight for real Jobs!

meet by Tesco Express at Shelton Square in Coventry City Centre
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THE MODERN DAY BLIGHT
Over the past two decades youth have faced a jobs massacre. Over 1 million 18-24 year olds are unemployed. As public sector cuts starts to bite and businesses close down, the situation can only get a lot worse.

The government does not have nor does it desire to have any solutions to what the vast majority of young and working class people see as a blight on society. What they actually do is use the situation as
an opportunity to get jobs done for big businesses for free. The government proposed work programme is actually a massive slave labour racket.

They use raving fantasies about workshy and feckless unemployed and the need to deal with the defi cit as a cover. Under the work programme young people will be forced to work for their dole. While big business will get huge bungs of over £2,000 to take JSA claimants on temporary contracts.

ONE RULE FOR US AND ANOTHER FOR THEM
All this while bankers and bosses are still raking it in. The banks have been bailed out to the tune of over £180 billion and bankers are still receiving huge bonuses. The big corporations are still making huge profits. Like the Arcadia retail group which made £133 million profits last year but is
closing 250 of its high street stores, shedding thousands of jobs. We say that if a company claims that it hasn’t got enough to keep on staff then they should open the accounts and prove it!

FIGHT THEIR SYSTEM
Young people should not be forced to pay for a crisis of this rotten capitalist system with our living standards and rights. If the jobs are there that need doing, then people should get a living wage for doing
them. It will also have a huge impact on the conditions of existing staff who will be forced to look over their shoulder at JSA claimants.

DEMAND YOUR FUTURE
Young people should not be used as fodder by a ruling class ravenous for profi ts. If businesses cannot provide jobs and decent wages and conditi on for workers then they should be nationalised. The government should also unroll a programme of public works to provide young people
with the jobs and training that they need to get into work.

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