Flying the Flag for Socialism
Posted by CelticEwan on May 5th, 2010
As the polls open tomorrow, we are urging everyone in Aberdeen North and in the other constituencies we are contesting to vote for the Scottish Socialist Party, and to support us after the general election, if you agree with our key messages.
Most importantly, we say that the main parties contesting this election are all planning to embark on massive spending cuts and attacks on living standards after the general election in order to cover the budget deficit and pay back the money spent to bail out the banks during the’ credit crunch’. We have criticised this approach by all the parties as offering the voters a set of non-choices in this election, as whoever forms the next government will cut spending, continue the war in Afghanistan and renew Trident nuclear missiles. Instead, we have been arguing that if we scrap Trident, bring the troops home from Afghanistan, close tax havens, raise corporation tax, and tax the super-rich, then instead of us being made to pay for capitalism’s crisis, we can protect public spending and redistribute wealth to raise living standards across the board.
Our full policy stance can be viewed in the ‘General Election 2010′ section of this website, however along with the above argument we have stated our position as an anti-war and anti-nuclear socialist party who support a green socialist republic in Scotland, with equitably shared wealth in society and public services, including free public transport, which serve people’s needs rather than private profit.
It is after the election that the fight against public spending cuts and for a socialist alternative to capitlaism’s crisis will begin. If you want to help us to build the mass movement required to successfully defend our public services and standard of living, and to promote this socialist alternative, then now is the time to support us, vote for us, and join us.
