Mollie Stevenson Election Communication

A personal message from Mollie Stevenson As a working mother, I know firsthand what the issues are that most concern working people - jobs, pensions, housing, the cost of living, education and the National Health Service.

The Coalition government has destroyed public services, cut welfare benefits, imposed benefit sanctions on the disabled and the unemployed, sold off our NHS, increased the state retirement age, and plunged people into poverty while turning a blind eye to massive corporations avoiding billions in taxes.

It is a scandal that thousands of people in Newcastle are being penalised by the Bedroom Tax, forcing them into debt and hunger, for the crime of ‘under occupying’ homes in which they have lived for years.

There are no such penalties for the millionaires who own massive homes – often several homes.

This is a capitalist crisis!

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Imagine what this Tory-led government will do in another five years.

I am fed up with the millionaires running Britain for a profit. I want to reverse the privatisation of the NHS, protect comprehensive education, and ensure that our children leave school or college with the prospects of a good job and trade union rights in employment. To achieve this we need to take power out of the hands of the bankers and big business, exit the European Union and put an end to this austerity that has failed all working people.

I urge you to vote for the party that stands by these policies - policies for the millions, not the millionaires.

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Election Communication Newcastle upon Tyne East Thursday 7 May 2015

Mollie Stevenson Communist Party candidate policies for the millions not the millionaires find out more at www.votecommunist.uk

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Austerity is working ... for bankers and bosses

Take the power! with public ownership

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 Mollie Stevenson, the Communist Party candidate in Newcastle East, will send a strong signal that workers and their families demand a new policy.

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Mollie Stevenson for Newcastle upon Tyne East

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Mother-of-three Mollie Stevenson was brought up in Newcastle and lives in North Tyneside, where she is chair of the local group of the People's Assembly Against Austerity.

A member of the Unite trade union, she is one of the new generation of leading Communist Party activists.

Follow Mollie's campaign on Facebook at Mollie Stevenson – Communist Party Candidate Newcastle East www.northerncommunists.org.uk Contact Mollie at mollie.stevenson@northerncommunists.org,uk.

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