Andy Chaffer Election Communication

A personal message from Andy Chaffer

This is a capitalist crisis!

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The most important issue in Birmingham generally and Hodge Hill in particular is employment. Local people need proper jobs that are full time and permanent.

Local employers need to be offering training places and permanent jobs to people in Hodge Hill. This means that the NHS, the bus company and rail engineering – to name just a few local employers – need to work with local colleges to ensure that local people are trained for the vacancies that arise.

Privatisation has proved a disaster, I support the renationalisation of the rail service and welcome the HS2 plan to site its depot in the constituency.

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‫!يعويشلا حشرملل اوتوص‬ ‫!دیهد یار تسینومک بزح یادیدناک هب‬ কমিউনিস্টদের ভোট দিন, নির্বাচিত করুন ΨΗΦΙΣΕ ΚΟΜΜΟΥΝΙΣΤΗ

Investing in manufacturing and infrastucture means proper jobs with decent wages not poverty pay and zero hours contracts.

Election Communication Birmingham Hodge Hill Thursday 7 May 2015

Working in the health service convinces me that we need a fully funded NHS and I oppose any cuts in local health provision.

Our local councillors should stand up for working people and oppose cuts to services by the local authority. We need public services to stay public services and we need the jobs.

A big Communist vote will signal that people in Hodge Hill want an end to privatisation and austerity cuts and demand real jobs on decent pay.

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Andy Chaffer Communist Party candidate

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Austerity is working ... for bankers and bosses

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H Working people and their families didn’t create this economic crisis. Nor should we pay for it!

H We need to vote out the Tories and LibDems on May 7. But a Labour government should reverse the cuts, not continue them. We need public ownership of vital services, not privatisation.

It’s a crisis of the capitalist system caused by reckless speculation and big business profiteering.

The bank bailout cost £1.3 trillion of our money – almost 20 times the annual government deficit.

We’re paying for the bail-out with tax and VAT rises.

And with cuts in public services, benefits and wages.

But corporate profits and fat cat incomes have shot up since 2008, while wages have been frozen.

In 1998, top bosses received 45 times the average pay – now they pay themselves 185 times the average.

They make more in three months than most people earn in a lifetime!

Today, one in five workers earn less than the living wage. Millions of people face benefit cuts, the Bedroom Tax and unfair ‘capability’ assessments for non-existent jobs.

The Tory-LibDem regime wants more ‘austerity’ – which means privatisation of our NHS and schools and more anti-trade union laws to enforce low wages and zero hours contracts.

Communists say we need a left-wing government – one that puts people before profit, peace before war and democracy before the EU and NATO.

Communists say a new government must: H Tax the rich, big business and City speculators .

H Plug tax avoidance loopholes and close down British-run tax havens around the world.

H Cut energy prices and take gas, electricity, water, buses and rail back into public ownership.

H Use nationalised banks to lend to home-buyers, small businesses and productive industry.

H Invest in jobs, ‘green’ technology and public services.

H Return all privatised health services to the NHS. H Enforce equal pay for women and young workers.

H Raise pensions and reinstate benefits and student grants.

H End privilege in education and abolish fees.

H Repeal the Bedroom Tax and build a million new public sector homes.

H Scrap the Health & Social Care Act and return all privatised health services to public ownership.

H Extend democratic rights in a progressive and federal Britain.

H Scrap Trident and plans for more nuclear weapons.

H Challenge NATO expansion and EU big business policies – stand up for popular sovereignty.

A big vote for Andy Chaffer, the Communist Party candidate in Birmingham Hodge Hill, will send a strong signal that workers demand a new policy.

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H Andy Chaffer works in mental health in the NHS in Birmingham.

He lives in Handsworth and is active in his trade union Unison.

A veteran of the struggle against apartheid and against racism Andy has a long history of solidarity work and fully supports an independent Palestine state.

A well known leader of the Communist Party in the Midlands he was active in opposition to the New Labour and the Con Dem wars on Iraq and Afghanistan.

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