Can you help campaign! SOCIALIST RES/STANCE is launching an appeal to help the SSP's election campaign. Rush your cheques to us at PO Box 1109 London N4 2 UU made payable to Socialist Resistance and marked SSP on the back as soon as possible.
We also want to organise teams of comrades to go up to Scotland to help with campaigning - any time between now and May 3.
If you want to be involved email us at [email protected] saying when you are available and where you live. In the battle for Holyrood, the SSP campaign will focus on six key promises.
First, we promise to help build a nationwide resistance against war and nuclear weapons. Scottish troops are in the frontline of two wars whose only purpose is to save the face of a failed President and a fading Prime Minister.
And now Washington and London are planning to foist upon Scotland a new generation of Trident nuclear weapons at a cost of tens of billions of pounds.
The SSP has already shown, not just in words, but in action, that we will not tolerate these monsters of death on our doorstep. A vote for the SSP is a vote for mass civil disobedience to get Scotland out of Iraq and Afghanistan and to get nuclear weapons out of Scotland.
• Second, we promise to fight for an independence referendum by the end of 2007. The SSP was the first political party to sign-up to the cross-party Independence Convention, which now also involves Scotland's other two pro-independence parties, the SP and the Scottish Greens.
After three centuries, it's time for Scotland to move on and break free of the obsolete British state and its embarrassing feudal relics such as the monarchy, the honours system and the House of Lords. A vote for the SSP is a vote to get Scotland out of Britain.
Third, we promise to fight for a national free public transport system to turn Scotland into the clean, green capital of the world.
With congestion and pollution choking our towns and cities and scientists ringing the alarm bells over global warming, we need radical TRAVEL DOESNT NEED TO COST THE EARTH action. By scrapping the £4billion of prestige transport projects such as M74 and the Edinburgh airport rail-link, we could fund the infrastructure for an expanded, publicly-owned transport network. And by imposing a modest payroll tax on big business, we could run our buses, trains, ferries and underground free of charge. A vote for proposal the rich for fare-free transport.
Fourth, we promise to fight for 100,000 new homes for rentbringing housebuilding in the social rented sector into line with the private sector.
Sky-high property prices mean misery, overcrowding and even homelessness for hundreds of thousands of young people and low paid workers.
We want to build flats for young people and houses
with gardens for young families. To fund that ambitious programme, we will campaign for the cancellation of all local authority housing debt, and for councils to be allowed to levy a 'millionaire's tax' on all land and property worth over a million pounds. A vote for the SSP is a vote to build high-quality housing for low-cost rent. • Fifth, we promise to continue the fight to replace the blatantly unfair Council Tax, with a new Scottish Service Tax based on income. Under our proposal, the rich will pay more, all earnings under £10,000 will be exempt, and 80 percent of Scottish households will be better off. A vote for the SSP is a vote for serious redistribution of wealth and income from the rich to the rest, starting
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with local taxation. • Sixth, we the SSP is a vote will pay more, all promise to bring earnings under school meals bill, £10,000 will be which has been exempt, and 80 delayed by
Holyrood until percent of after the 2007 elecScottish tion, has the support of scores of households will children's charibe better off. ties, trade unions
and health professionals: It seems that everyone in Scotland supports free school meals -except for the big four political parties. A vote for the SSP is a vote to put nutritious, free school meals on the menu of Scotland's schools.