Back to main newsCPB Manifesto for Scotland launched - The manifesto highlights three key issues which the Communist Party believes are at stake in the election: the survival of the welfare state, the right to work and the right to organise freely in trade unions.
Wed 14 Apr 2010
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Marc Livingstone, the Communist Party’s candidate for the Glasgow North West constituency, has launched the Communist Party’s Manifesto for Scotland. 13 April marks the start of the official election campaign. View the Manifesto. Register to receive regular eNews & Views updates.
The manifesto highlights three key issues which the Communist Party believes are at stake in the election: the survival of the welfare state, the right to work and the right to organise freely in trade unions. The manifesto warns that all three are in danger. It calls for united resistance to the demands of big business that ordinary people pay for the crisis caused by the banks.
The manifesto lays out the Communist Party’s demands that the very rich, the banks and financial institutions be fully taxed and for the money to be used to expand the economy and take the transport, communications and energy back into public ownership.
The manifesto calls for the Scottish Parliament to be given powers to borrow and to tax unearned income – thus enabling a Scottish Government to end with the private finance initiative and to intervene economically to create jobs. The manifesto also calls for the scrapping of Trident and for the £75 billion saved to be used to create jobs in locally based renewable energy industries.
Marc Livingstone says: ‘I intend to be a tribune for young people in this election. It is a scandal that up to half young people aged under 25 in Glasgow have no employment, that those wanting to set up home are unable to get housing and that many who want to go on to university are not able to get a place or fund their studies. It is no less scandal that we should see facilities for young people being run down and community centres, libraries and swimming pools closed. This is the kind of situation that acts as a breeding ground for racism and intolerance against minorities. We need to redevelop the traditional values of working class unity to campaign for a better world, one not based on private profit for the very few.’
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