anti-war candidates to vote for. ported it once fighting began!
ending over sovereignty to their Iraqi stooges. ing for a second preference vote for him, after Lindsey German. Livingstone, Liberals and Greens are all trying to claim that they are the best
Whatever his personal views, Livingstone is standing on a Labour ticket - the war party. The Liberals are trying to claim they opposed the war - but they supThe Greens, at least were a bit more consistent, but would now support the UM despice the fact that on the ground the UN is implicated in the US fiction of
Oniy RESPECT has consistently argued against the war and for an end to the occupation. But because of Livingstone's stance against the war, Respect is callsafety and security. Investment in the infrastructure, including new rail links, often discussed but never delivered, and a major extension of safe cycle routes. Progressive elements should be introduced into the congestion charge - so the rich with expensive cars pay more and essential workers are not penalised. Leaving housing to the market and encouraging local authorities to get rid of their council housing has led to a massive crisis.
Speculative luxury house building and the smallest public housing programme for generations has meant people live in overcrowded conditions and/or pay exorbitant be concentrating their campaigns on the third issue people worry about -crime. Without fail they will all agree the answer is more police and more prisons.
But Britain's prison population is the highest in Europe and police numbers continue to grow. The effect has only been to make society appear more brutal.
Fear of crime has been whipped up by those who want to demonise parts of our society. Being "tough on crime" has meant more harassment of young people and the Black and Asian communities, whilst corporate crime is given free rein. We need a broader way of dealing with
It is about opposing the war and oc tion of Iraq and all the draconian attac civil liberties that have gone with it - ir and here.
Unlike all the other parties the RESF campaign does not end on June 10. Hon many RESPECT candidates get electe fight to represent the interests of wo people has to continue.
But that does not mean votes do not ter. On the contrary, as happened wit election of Tommy Sheridan to the Sc Parliament, a good vote in these elec can be a catalyst for a radical shift i prospects for the left and the fight to cl society.
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Once May 2004 5 •... Respect Manifesto energy sources, to tackle the nightmare of global warming and climate change - with its disastrous effects on agriculture and on sea levels. Nuclear energy must be phased out and replaced by cleaner, safer and renewable alternatives. Corporate power
The time has come to challenge the doctrine of Tata on and or operating organised
institutions and big corporations - organised within the EU as the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT). The ERT is a powerful and effec