The Socialist 14 April 2010

Main parties promise more of the same rotten cuts agenda

Voters face 'slash and burn' policies whoever wins election

Help build a socialist alternative in the general election

Socialist Party manifesto 2010

Afghanistan: Bring the troops back

Kyrgyzstan - dictator overthrown

News in brief

Defend welfare and public services

RMT union challenges far-right in Barking

Postal workers call for 'no' vote on deal

NUT conference calls for 24-hour public sector strike

Newcastle University - support staff face attacks on jobs and pay

STOP PRESS - BA dispute

National Shop Stewards Network 2010 conference

Lewisham - standing on our fighting record

Coventry's city-wide socialist election challenge

Russia: Putin - ten years of the man that no-one knew

Emperor's new clothes: the bosses' pet management theories

20 years ago: the Strangeways prison riot

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Coventry's city-wide socialist election challenge

THE SOCIALIST Party will contest all 18 wards in the Coventry city council elections on 6 May. This is the first time that we are standing in every seat, giving each voter the chance to vote for a Socialist Alternative candidate. We are also part of the TUSC coalition.

Our candidates include sitting St Michaels councillor Rob Windsor who is defending his seat, trade union representatives, community activists, campaigners against student tuition fees and youth unemployment, veterans of the battle against Thatcher's hated poll tax, and leaders of the anti-PFI car parking charges campaign at Walsgrave Hospital.

We are the only party to campaign against the Private Finance Initiative (PFI - Profit From Illness) scheme at Walsgrave, which has meant a private company pocketing £2.7 million in just one year from parking charges.

Only the socialists opposed the Tory council planned cuts of £72 million over the next three years, when every Labour councillor voted with the Tories.

So, if you want to vote against the establishment parties' 'Tweedledum Tweedledee' politics, vote Socialist Alternative in Coventry.