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A personal messagefrom Laura JaneRossington

A major problem in Plymouth is housing. We haveseen the gentrification of the waterside, Millbay andthe Barbican where there used to be working classhomes and now flats stand empty while thousandsneed decent homes.

Those in power talk about ‘affordable’ housing butwith a one-bedroom flat costing over £100,000 pricesare much higher than the average Plymouth wageearner can afford.

We need a massive programme of council housebuilding, strict rent controls and penalties forspeculators who leave houses and flats empty.

We need a housing plan that includes bringing emptyproperties back into use and new builds on‘brownfield’ sites rather than concreting over ourbeautiful countryside.

Unlike the City spivs, bankers and bosses the workingclass are the people who keep this country on its feetand productive.

Our needs have been largely ignored and it is time toput the working class back into the centre of politics.

The Communist Party is the party of the working classand a communist vote in this election will be a vote forchange that is so desperately needed.

Laura Jane Rossington

Election CommunicationPlymouth Sutton and DevonportThursday 7 May 2015

Laura Jane RossingtonCommunist Party candidate

Promoted for Laura Jane Rossington by Dean Rossington. 24 Holmes AvenuePlymouth PL3 6LW and printed by

Austerity is working ... for bankers and bossesH Working people and their families didn’t create thiseconomic crisis. Nor should we pay for it!

It’s a crisis of the capitalist system caused by recklessspeculation 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 upsince 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 peopleearn in a lifetime!

Today, one in five workers earn less than the livingwage. Millions of people face benefit cuts, theBedroom Tax and unfair ‘capability’ assessments fornon-existent jobs.

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

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

Take the power! with public ownershipH We need to vote out the Tories and LibDems onMay 7. But a Labour government should reverse thecuts, not continue them. We need public ownership ofvital services, not privatisation.

Communists say a new government must:H Tax the rich, big business and City speculators H Close British-run tax havens around the worldH Cut energy prices and take gas, electricity, water,

buses and rail back into public ownership.H Use nationalised banks and 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 Laura Jane Rossington, the CommunistParty candidate in Plymouth Sutton and Devonport,will send a strong signal that workers and their familiesdemand a new policy

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Laura JaneRossington forPlymouth Sutton

and DevonportH Laura Jane Rossington, at 18 years old, is theyoungest candidate in this election. Born in Lincoln herfamily moved to Plymouth 14 years ago and she livedfirst in Stonehouse and now Efford.

An A level student at Plymouth City College she isaims to be a voice for the working class and for allyoung people, working, studying and jobseekers alike.

Equality, affordable housing, jobs and an end to povertypay are her key concerns. She is the women’s officer ofthe Young Communist League.

She says: “None of the other parties put working classinterests first. We need to stand up to the system andlearn to speak and fight for ourselves once again. Withthe Communist Party we can do just that.”

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