In the looming general election a joint campaign against Blair is being mounted by five left parties. These will put forward an alternative to the right-wing policies of privatisation, war and environmental destruction offered by both the major parties and the Liberal Democrats too.
We believe that the New Labour party of Blair and Brown has deprived the working class of political representation, and we want to restore a workers' voice in politics. We believe MPs should earn the average wage of a skilled worker and we are standing to give voters a chance to elect MPs who will not profit personally from election.
Our parties are socialist. We believe that there is a fundamental contradiction between the needs of capital in an exploitative, profit-drive system, and the needs of the large majority of human beings here and throughout the world. We stand for a thoroughgoing restructuring of the economy and society as a whole, based on common ownership under democratic working class control of the major concentrations of productive wealth.
We are green socialists. We want integrated, expanded and publicly-owned and run transport services, and a planned conversion of the energy industries to sustainable technologies. These are just the first steps needed to stop capitalist greed destroying the world in which we live through global warming and environmental destruction.
As separate parties, we each have our own programme and policies corresponding to the differing perspectives we have on how socialist and environmental change can best be achieved. But all our parties and candidates will campaign for:
Click here to read the agreed policies for the Socialist Green Unity Coalition (word file) Click here to see where left-wing parties intend to stand in the General Election. Click here to see the Socialist Green Unity Coalition website.
