SCOTTISH ELECTION May 2007

In an unequal society totally dominated by big business, Communists believe real democracy demands more than just voting at the ballot box.

Over the years Communists in Glasgow have fought to defend the rights of ordinary people in the workplace and the community. Now that fight needs to be carried into the Scottish Parliament.

Election Hustings: Elinor McKenzie

For peace, public ownership and democracy!

Scottish males die decades earlier, rich are getting richer, poor are getting poorer.... while the UK remains the 5th biggest economy in the world. The "New Labour" project is failing ordinary people by following the big business capitalist agendas, who's grip over democracy is ever growing.

Elinor McKenzie, Communist Candidate for Govan, explains how we need progressive MSPs to develop Scottish and local democracy, and protect the interests of those who actually make the UK's wealth - ordinary working class people!

Election Hustings: Alan MacKinnon

Trident or Health?

Trident Nuclear WMD is rejected by three-quarters of the Scottish population, and yet it is housed 30 miles outside Glasgow!

Alan MacKinnon examines plans to create weapons of mass genocide, which cost £100 billion - money we could use for life enhancement such as health.

Its all about choices!

Election Hustings: Elinor McKenzie

Is Scottish Independence the solution?

Many parties claim that Scottish Independence offers the solution to the economic and social difficulties facing ordinary people. Elinor McKenzie, Communist Candidate for Govan, leading peace campaigner and a previous secretary of Scottish CND, explores this defining topic of the election.

For the past twenty years big business has pursued a profoundly anti-democratic political agenda - first through the Tories and then through New Labour. Its objective has been to nullify people's right to vote for policies that can protect their labour, their right to work and the well-being of their economy.
Big business claims that such policies violate the free market and competition. But big business is not interested in freedom. Its aim is to eliminate any obstacle to profit.
Since the 1980s big business-influenced governments have privatised virtually all public utilities, cut pensions, benefits and job security and enforced some of world's toughest anti-trade union laws, The result has been to make Britain one of the most unequal societies in Europe and also one of the least efficient. This big business greed for profit only grows.