Dave Nellist
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Dave Nellist is a member of the Socialist Party. He was a Labour MP (1983-1992), SP city councillor in Coventry (1998-2012), and now national Chair of TUSC.
Coventry, UK
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Thank you to everyone who has supported our local socialist
#Crowdfunder
appeal to launch a trade union and socialist challenge in
#CoventryEast
for the general election.
If you can afford to, please help with a donation at and come to our public meeting
I'm pleased to announce I will be the
#TUSC
general election candidate for
#CoventryEast
on a 100% anti-austerity and anti-war platform. If elected, I intend again to be a socialist MP on a worker's wage. If you can help in any way over the next four weeks, please get in touch.
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I'm pleased to announce I will be the
#TUSC
general election candidate for
#CoventryEast
on a 100% anti-austerity and anti-war platform. If elected, I intend again to be a socialist MP on a worker's wage. If you can help in any way over the next four weeks, please get in touch.
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#bbcqt
No reason for austerity to reconstruct the economy, use wider public ownership and rational planning instead of the failed market. As for money, the richest 1000 families in Britain were worth £250bn before ‘our’ decade of austerity, and £750bn after. Let them pay!
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30 yrs ago the
#PollTax
was abolished. Not by fine speeches or seeking a common agenda with the Tories, but organised mass struggle.
Here's an article I wrote last year on the 30th anniversary of its introduction.
Organised mass struggle is needed today!
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'
@Keir_Starmer
moving even further away from last
#Labour
manifesto - on the chopping block are party pledges on nationalising rail, mail, energy and water'
If you were inspired by
@JeremyCorbyn
, it's time to build something new!
#TUSC
@Dave4Erdington
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𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗩𝟯𝟲𝟵𝟱
It's not unknown for a Labour MP to go to prison.
But in solidarity with working-class people?
30 years ago, my friend + comrade Terry Fields served 58 days for refusing to pay the Poll Tax.
My article to mark the anniversary
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Emma Dent Coad, socialist ex-MP, speaking at
#Socialism2023
, planning to stand against Starmer's
#Labour
at the next general election to hold Labour to account!
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#bbcqt
stichup again allowing
@Anna_Soubry
to interrupt and override
@johnmcdonnellMP
with unfounded allegations with no evidence
#getagrip
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Alternatively, as
@theRCN
launches a £35m strike fund, let's hear the date from
@unitetheunion
@GMB_union
and
@UNISONOurNHS
for a national day of protest as a first step to build support for co-ordinated industrial action. Below inflation = pay cut!
#NHSPay15
#NSSN
#Solidarity
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If you were inspired by
@jeremycorbyn
and are increasingly dismayed by
@Keir_Starmer
, support the
#TUSC
anti-austerity challenge at the May elections - more local launch meetings listed at
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#OTD
1991 Terry Fields MP was imprisoned for refusing to pay the Tories' Poll Tax.
In solidarity with the millions who could not afford to pay.
We need MPs like Terry today to seriously fight for a socialist opposition to the cost of living crisis.
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39 years ago today the Tories increased to £16 a week the money they 'deemed' the NUM paid striking miners (no strike pay was paid) and took that sum from the benefits of partners and children to try to starve the miners back to work.
Tony Benn's diary records the angry response!
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My thoughts eight years ago today, on the day
#TonyBenn
passed away; and a family photo in our back garden
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"I'm sick of councillors coming on weekend events in a
#CheGuevara
teeshirt, to show how radical they are, then going in to the town hall to pass cuts.
#Unite
demands no cuts, needs based budgets!"
Onay Kasab, national officer Unite at
#NSSN22
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Please follow our new campaign account for the
#Erdington
by-election at
@Dave4Erdington
, and click the notification bell to be amongst the first to hear of local
#TUSC
campaign events and activities
There's a by-election coming up in Erdington in Birmingham - and today
@tuscoalition
announced that former socialist MP Dave Nellist will be standing to put forward an anti-austerity, pro-worker alternative.
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𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁
I joined the Labour Party in 1974 to oppose Ted Heath's 'business first' manifesto. In the Guardian, Aditya Chakrabortty quotes research to say Labour today is close to those same Tory ideas.
In this election, we’re not
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The most interesting result tomorrow will not be the number of seats Labour wins but the total number of votes they get.
In 2017,
@jeremycorbyn
's radical policies inspired 12,878,460 voters - if Keir Starmer doesn't surpass that substantially, how will he explain it away?
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A short interview I gave to the
#NotTheAndrewMarrShow
yesterday about the strike-breaking tactics of
#Coventry
#Labour
Council, and the disdain
@Keir_Starmer
shows for
#Unite
and the city of Coventry
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Storming speech from
@KenLoachSixteen
at
#HCT2017
. Privatisation should be ended and everyone who works in
#ourNHS
should be employed by NHS
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Ironically, I'm currently not allowed to rejoin
#Labour
because I *want*
@jeremycorbyn
to be PM, whilst my former roommate TB *doesn't*!
"Blair has said not only that Corbyn cannot get elected but that he should not be. How is that not grounds for expulsion?" LIVE
@talkRADIO
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#bbcqt
How can Chris Grayling say UK more equal than 1980s when the top 1000 have doubled their wealth to £570bn and over 1m use food banks?
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.
@bbcwm
Private landlords can already be regulated. Other
#Labour
councils have mandatory registration schemes. Why not
#Birmingham
? Everyone deserves a decent home, that would be better provided by building new council homes at rents people can afford
@Dave4Erdington
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A Tory PM (Ted Heath) nationalised
#RollRoyce
in 24 hours in 1971 - key firms such as this threatening mass redundacies should be brought into public ownership, only this time workers should have a decisive say over what, and how, things are produced:
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No to the Tory Plan of more extensive use of the private sector.
Yes to the renationalisation of the
#NHS
, and of the private health sector, pharmaceuticals and medical equipment manufacture.
Working people haven't got a major party that fights for that - let's build one!
#TUSC
The number of people on a waiting list for hospital treatment rose to a record of nearly 6.1 million in December 2021. The 18-week target for treatment has not been met since 2016. Read our analysis for more key stats:
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I have just taken the candidates' pledge to support the campaign to defend the right to strike by
@strike_map
&
@ctufevents
.
All
#TUSC
candidates like myself pledge to repeal the anti-union laws. In our manifesto, we stand with workers taking action to defend jobs, conditions,
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.
@BBCNewsnight
Given majority support (YouGov polls) for renationalisation of
#energy
, especially after £billions more profit whilst families have to choose between food and fuel, why no party on the programme to argue that?
#LabourIsntLabourAnymore
#TUSC
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'
@bbcnewsnight
The best experience an MP could take into the House of Commons is living for 5 years on the same wages as their constituents
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On the way to
#Sheffield
for tonight's
#TUSC
election meeting at 7 pm at The Central United Reformed Church, 60 Norfolk Street, Sheffield S1 2JB.
If you support an anti-austerity challenge to the Establishment parties in
#LocalElections2023
, come along.
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39 years ago and today...... "and it don't seem a day too long"............
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The penalty for not participating in politics is to be governed by your inferiors - Plato
http://t.co/hCcH5VMDQI
@bbcqt
#tusc
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@BBCNewsnight
@KirstyWark
says there was no alternative when energy prices spiked. Yes, there was.
UK could have done the same as France which nationalised energy firm EDF and directed it to raise prices by no more than 4%. Our energy bills in a `free market’ went up by 134%!
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The sooner
@jeremycorbyn
gets the chance to end
#privatisation
and
#PFI
- and public services are run + owned by the public under democratic management - the better. We need to up the political + industrial pressure on this weak Tory government + force an early general election!
The collapse of Carillion is a watershed moment. It is time to put an end to the rip-off privatisation policies that have done serious damage to our public services and fleeced taxpayers of billions of pounds.
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Proof that what
@Keir_Starmer
has built is an alternative Tory Party, not an alternative *to* the Tory Party. As the Spanish proverb has it: "Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are."
For a genuine anti-austerity and anti-war alternative, we need to look
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27 years ago Jill Phipps, brave animal rights campaigner, died on a picket line at
#Coventry
Airport, protesting against the export of live animals. Our thoughts today are with Jill's family and friends.
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On this day in 1991 Terry Fields, then Labour MP for Liverpool Broadgreen, was jailed for 60 days for refusing to pay Mrs Thatcher's Poll Tax in solidarity with the millions who couldn't or wouldn't pay. Read his inspirational letter to his constituents at
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Hundreds of junior doctors on the anti-austerity, anti Tory March in Manchester today
#solidarity
#nssn
#tusc
http://t.co/ErNDNtDojo
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Here's to 2018: let's hope for the rich elites of the world it's an average year - worse than the one they had in 2017 and better than the one coming for them in 2019. Here's to the international working class and a socialist future!
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Proud to have attended the 50th anniversary rally this morning of the closure of
#SaltleyGates
, a seminal moment in working class solidarity when 30000 factory workers in
#Birmingham
struck and joined the miners' picket lines
#NUM
#RMT
#Unite
#NSSN
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#bbcqt
In 1970's Britain was one of the most equal countries on the planet. Now there's 1000 people worth £658bn + over £1m using foodbanks!
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'Workers shouldn't ask for big pay rises to stop prices rising out of control says Bank of England governor'
Workers demanding pay rises BECAUSE food, energy, transport, taxes ALREADY out of control!
PS Mr Bailey is paid £575,538 a year incl pension
#TUSC
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Over 500 people marched in
#Coventry
again today, against Israeli State Terror.
For the latest on the
#Israel
-
#Palestine
conflict, and how workers can end war and secure national and democratic rights for all, visit the
#CWI
at
#FreePalestineCoventry
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Why was this man sentenced to 2 yrs in prison? Why are some documents from the case not to be released "in interest of national security"?
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Fully support current
#NHS
strikes of
#RCN
#NIPSA
#Unite
#GMB
#Unison
but why do
@AngelaRayner
@BBCNews
+ other commentators say 'nurses on first-ever strike in NHS history'?
1982 saw 10,000s nurses on strike
Sept 22 1982 saw >2 million demonstrate in support!
#RememberOurHistory
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#NewLabour
When bosses are brutal the deputy leader "gently" offers advice
We need a new party, rooted in organisations + communities of the working-class, that'll be as hard for our class as the bosses are for theirs!
Solidarity P&O workers
#TUSC
because
#LabourIsntLabourAnymore
I just gently say to P&O bosses that your company will be less profitable if you treat your workers in such an appalling way. People will vote with their feet.
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Today, we launched a
#Crowfunder
appeal to extend our reach in this campaign. If you can afford to, please donate at
Solidarity.
I'm pleased to announce I will be the
#TUSC
general election candidate for
#CoventryEast
on a 100% anti-austerity and anti-war platform. If elected, I intend again to be a socialist MP on a worker's wage. If you can help in any way over the next four weeks, please get in touch.
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@uniteSharon
@unitetheunion
@UniteWestMids
#covbinstrike
#NSSN
#PayJustice
6:30 on the picket line, Day 1
#Solidarity
from
#Coventry
trade unionists and socialists
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No,
@bbcnews
@JPonpolitics
,
@jeremycorbyn
is not 'using' the
#Carillion
crisis to 'jump in' and argue against private companies in public services, socialists have maintained a principled opposition to privatisation, PFI and outsourcing - and are being proved right!
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Govt thinking of £200 payment to offset price rises. Our supplier wants £40 a week more for a new 2-year fixed tariff!
Oil and gas companies gave £200bn dividends to shareholders last 10 years; they are not poor! Nationalise energy and *cut* bills.
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#bbcqt
somebody should tell the woman from the FT that the reason we have a national debt so high is because her banks crashed the economy!
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MPs pay to rise to over £91000.
@Socialist_party
mbrs would only take the average skilled wage plus necessary expenses, not three times the average wages and holidays of the people they represent. Then, they wouldn't be insulated from day-to-day problems.
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With
@janenellist1
on a solidarity visit to
#Coventry
rail station this lunchtime.
The next strike day for
@RMTunion
and
@TSSAunion
is Saturday, 20th August.
Why not visit a local picket line and take along your union banner, flags and placards?
#Solidarity
#NSSN
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'
@IanBFAWU
returns to address
#Socialism2021
speaking of the bakers' union no longer wanting to be a part of a party (Labour) that prefers representing the bosses rather than the workers!
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After a brief rise in popularity with
@jeremycorbyn
,
#Labour
's decline continues. A new party is needed, rooted in the organisations and communities of the working class. Have a read of the case for something new: . If you agree, join the socialists today
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'
@BBCNewsnight
The real leeches on
#NHS
are not "health tourists" but
#PFI
companies taking £billions, like the owners of hospital csrparks!
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You don't have to do much today to be at odds with right-wing Labour - fancy, just for supporting a picket line!
Time for a new party for working people, rooted in the organisations and communities of the working class.
#TUSC
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Just done 10 minutes (at 1715) on
@BBCCWR
with Trish Adudu about 'do strikes work?'
#SpoilerAlert
They do!
#Unite
has had 300 strikes in recent months, 3/4 settled with full victory and members involved £25m better off.
Have a listen via
#BBCSounds
#JoinAUnion
#TUSC
#NSSN
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Sad to hear Derek Robinson passed away - w/class needs strong unions with strong leaders, and Derek was one of them
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#TUC
and
#Labour
should demand today
#Carillion
be nationalised! 24 hours should be enough (as it was for Edward Heath and Rolls Royce in 1971). Contracts should be brought back in house, jobs and pensions guaranteed, no bailout for bosses!
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.
@randle_pete
gets loud reception at
#NSSN22
- the
#CovBinStrike
is now in 7th month.
"First in all disputes, we fight industrially to win. But then we need to look for a new politics, and possibly a new political home!"
#LabourIsntLabourAnymore
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With the
#Labour
conference later this month, anyone who was inspired by
@jeremycorbyn
and is dismayed by
@Keir_Starmer
, should have a read of this and then consider how we build a new party rooted in the organisations and communities of the working class
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We need a £15 an hour minimum wage, and a 50% rise in benefits and pensions too. Labour is just selling itself as an alternative Tory party, not an alternative to the Tory Party!
It’s time for trade union based and sponsored candidates to provide a socialist alternative.
#TUSC
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Over a quarter (150,000) have left since April 2020 when
@keir_starmer
became leader. There needs to be a new mass party rooted in the organisations and communities of the working class that can hold those leaving and keep them involved in anti-austerity politics.
#TUSC
@davenellist
I really hope that Starmer follows through, because it will merely speed up the exodus of members from Labour, and the decline of Labour as a political force.
New New Labour is a busted flush.
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'
@CWUNews
Ricky Tomlinson and supporters earlier today in
#Coventry
-
#solidarity
with
#thecwu
#fourpillars
#NSSN
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As a member of
#Unite
(and forerunners) since 1974, I want a General Secretary mobilising members to take action in defence of jobs, pay, terms and conditions. For me, the other 2 runners would be either too close to employers or the Labour leadership
I'm voting for
@UniteSharon
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Myself and 74 other socialists, former
#Labour
Party members expelled over last 33 years, have applied to re-join
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On the way to
#Manchester
to march with, and speak at, the
#Peterloo
March for Democracy.
If you're in the area, join us.
#Solidarity
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Another large and determined
#CovBinStrike
picket line earlier this morning (Thursday).
One driver I spoke to (HGV1!), after 40 years working for
#Coventry
#Labour
Council, is on £22,626.96 - that's not
#PayJustice
#Unite
members are fighting for a decent wage.
#Solidarity
#NSSN
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Due to be on
@BBCNews
at 10pm tonight on the significance of Keir Starmer's attack on the Left with today's suspension of
@jeremycorbyn
, seeking to make
#Labour
a safe alternative for the Establishment
#TUSC
#NSSN
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14m in poverty, 1/3 of all children; libraries/youth clubs closing; desperate people sleeping in shop doorways. 1000 families 'worth' £771bn in today's
#RichList2019
is frankly obscene. Billionaires fear
#Corbygeddon
? If it were me, they'd face confiscation (+universal credit)!
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She's gone!
We need a General Election, but a new workers' party rooted in the organisations and communities of the working class with a socialist, anti austerity agenda.
Join us to build one.
#SocialistParty
#TUSC
#NSSN
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Tories to abolish
#PFI
for future projects. Chancellor says 'compelling evidence that it does not deliver value' - as socialists have said for 25 years!! However, 'govt will honour existing contracts'. Let's have a general election and get a govt that will scrap *all* PFI deals
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Message to
#HCT2017
from
@JonAshworth
#Labour
shadow health secretary promising "to end privatisation in
#NHS
"- would be massively popular!
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On the day (2nd Saturday, each July) that tens of thousands should have been marching to the
#TheBigMeeting
, here's one who often took part in the
#DurhamMinersGala
- this picture from 1980 via the Chronicle
#RIPJack
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.
@janenellist1
speaking at
#NSSN22
about the key role of local TUCs giving a forum to local trade union activists to plan solidarity action in a rising strike wave - and the privilege of supporting 125 days of
#CovBinStrike
.
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I could be wrong—'changed' Labour may win a 'landslide' tonight, but actually get fewer votes nationally than Jeremy Corbyn did in 2019! after two years of sustained character assassination.
Tonight is Labour's high water mark. When it doesn't deliver, it will leave a space
🎵Meet the new boss, same as the old boss🎵
(a Labour 'landslide', but with fewer votes than Jeremy Corbyn inspired in 2017!)
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#TUSC
candidates are standing in elections on 6 May. 307 candidates will contest seats in 95 different local authorities. TUSC is also standing for the Welsh Senedd, Scottish Parliament, Greater London Assembly and city mayor in Bristol and Liverpool:
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#OTD
In 1991, Terry Fields MP was imprisoned for refusing to pay the Tories' Poll Tax in solidarity with the millions who could not afford to pay. We need MPs like Terry today to seriously fight for a socialist opposition to the cost of living crisis:
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Let them have courage of their convictions: publish names + let local Lab mbrs have vote of no confidence in them!
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Today is
#NHS75
Campaigners are rededicating themselves to fighting for full public funding, ownership and control of our national health service.
#CoventryKONP
outside
#UHCW
and
#Coventry
Health Centre this morning and
#GodivaFestival
at the weekend - 00s leaflets distributed✊
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I just signed the
#MakeEqualityReal
campaign's
#GeneralElection
pledge for candidates as the
#TUSC
candidate for Coventry East.
It is time to make austerity unlawful and make equality real - that's what makes me a socialist fighting for a socialist society and a new party rooted
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Lively
#climatemarch
in
#Coventry
re
#COP26
with trade union, green, socialist and environmental campaigners speaking at the beginning and the end.
#Solidarity
#SocialistChangeNotClimateChange
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Starmer’s spokesperson “Nobody wants to see industrial action that's disruptive”
Tories don't want "effective" strikes either
In
#Coventry
Labour has spent £3m employing strike-breakers against
#CovBinStrike
so we know what they mean
Solidarity
#RMT
#Unite
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And begs the question why have we had £80bn austerity cuts if Bank of England has got that much in reserves?
@davenellist
@B9igndispo
@BBCNews
our labour. BofE have just pulled a £250b rabbit out of hat. Money reminds me of the emperors new clothing
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Never mind a change of leader - we want a change of government!!
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