Public Meeting - Labour Hatchet or Tory Axe?

TIME TO BUILD A WORKERS' ALTERNATIVE FOR THE 2010 ELECTION

Socialist Party public meeting: 7.30pm on Tuesday 15th December @ Tottenham Chances Community Centre  - 339 High Road N17 6QN

The government that told us it was "distinctly relaxed about people getting filthy rich" seems to have finally fallen out of bed with the bankers. Brown and Mandelson - faced with seething public anger at RBS executives intent on stealing huge amounts in bonuses from the tax-payer - may be making plenty of noise, but they are still planning to make workers pay for the crisis.

£billions of cuts are planned - including a pay-freeze on 4 million public sector workers - and a generation of young people who have lost their future in the recession have been offered insults by Alan Sugar instead of decent jobs and training schemes. The Tory response is a bigger machete-job on vital services - and the Liberals are promising to be even more brutal.

The insanity of a bank that is 84% owned by the state wasting billions of our money on bonuses at the same time as housing, healthcare and education are attacked shows the desperate need for a political voice for ordinary workers. The fight-back has already begun around the country, and members of the Socialist Party along with others on the left and fighting trade unions like the RMT are working together to match the fight-back in workplaces and communities with a new electoral alliance for the 2010 General Election.

Join activists and trade unionists on at 7.30pm on Tuesday 15th December at Tottenham Chances Community Centre to discuss the lessons of NO2EU Yes to Democracy and the way forward for a new workers' electoral platform in the face of the onslaught by big business politicians.  Paula Mitchell, London organiser for the Socialist Party, and a representative of the RMT will be speaking.

For more info contact Toby on 07846 906 767 or check out the Campaign for a New Workers' Party website at www.cnwp.org.uk. We'll see you there!

Come to socialism 2009

October Branch Meeting - End The War In Afghanistan

Eight years on and the war in Afghanistan continues – over 200 British troops have been killed and the casualty rate is growing with the total so far this year exceeding that for 2008. Tragically over 1,500 Afghan civilians have also been killed this year. Opinion polls show that the majority of people in this country now oppose the war – a war that the Socialist Party has opposed from the start.

We did not accept the lie that the invasion of Afghanistan would make this country safe from terrorist attack. Nor did we accept the lie that the war would secure democratic rights for ordinary Afghans. The regime of Karazi is corrupt and serves only the interests of the warlords and spreads ethnic divisions, whilst 40% of the promised Western aid has not reached the people.

The right-wing Islamists of the Taliban provide a blind alley of terrorism that cannot solve the real problems of the region where 77% of the population have no access to clean water and in rural areas over 80% do not have electricity.

The Socialist Party calls for a withdrawal of all foreign troops from Afghanistan, where there presence is only driving people towards the Taliban. We also call for a workers’ and peasants’ government in Afghanistan to unite the ethnic groups and secure peace and a better standard of living for all the peoples of region.

We believe that it is capitalism and imperialism that create the problems that have ravaged the lives of the people of Afghanistan – it is the same system that benefits a wealthy few and sends working class young people from this country to go and fight for their interests.

Tuesday 27^th October 7pm

Tottenham Chances Community Centre

399 High Road, Tottenham, London N17 6QN