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A personal messagefrom Mollie Stevenson

As a working mother, I know first-hand what the issues are that most

concern working people - jobs,pensions, housing, the cost of living, education and theNational Health Service.

The Coalition government has destroyed publicservices, cut welfare benefits, imposed benefitsanctions on the disabled and the unemployed, sold offour NHS, increased the state retirement age, andplunged people into poverty while turning a blind eyeto massive corporations avoiding billions in taxes.

It is a scandal that thousands of people in Newcastleare being penalised by the Bedroom Tax, forcing theminto debt and hunger, for the crime of ‘underoccupying’ homes in which they have lived for years.There are no such penalties for the millionaires whoown massive homes – often several homes.

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

I am fed up with the millionaires running Britain for aprofit. I want to reverse the privatisation of the NHS,protect comprehensive education, and ensure that ourchildren leave school or college with the prospects of agood job and trade union rights in employment. Toachieve this we need to take power out of the handsof the bankers and big business, exit the EuropeanUnion and put an end to this austerity that has failed allworking people.

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

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policies for the millions not the millionaires

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 Plug tax avoidance loopholes and close down

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 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 Partycandidate in Newcastle East, will send a strong signalthat workers and their families demand a new policy.

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Mollie Stevenson forNewcastle upon Tyne East

HMother-of-three MollieStevenson was brought up in

Newcastle and lives in NorthTyneside, where she is chair of the

local group of the People's AssemblyAgainst Austerity.  

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

Follow Mollie's campaign on Facebook atMollie Stevenson – Communist Party Candidate Newcastle East

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Contact Mollie atmollie.stevenson@northerncommunists.org,uk.

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