What We Stand For - the basic outline of our manifesto, platform, or programme of demands

A Worker's MP on a Workers' wage

Why we need a new mass workers' party

Socialist Party Wales prepare election challenge

Dave Nellist

Coventry North East

DAVE IS the leader of the Socialist group on Coventry city council. He is also national chair of the Socialist Alliance.

Dave was MP in the city from 1983 to 1992, when he was known as a workers' MP on a worker's wage. He took only the wage of a skilled factory worker, less than half of what other MPs took for themselves and pledges that he will do the same again if elected.

Tel: 024 76 525 394

Clive Walder

Birmingham Northfield

CLIVE IS assistant secretary of the Central Telecoms Branch of the Commun-ication Workers' Union. He's an active member of the Campaign to Save Selly Oak and QE Hospitals and of Birmingham Defend Council Housing.

A former Labour councillor, he was expelled from the Labour Party for leading a campaign of non-payment against the poll tax. Tel 07771 931 185

Steve Score

Leicester West

STEVE WAS actively involved in Unity Against Prejudice, an umbrella body formed to fight threats from local fascist groups to stop Leicester Mardi Gras - a local gay festival. UAP involved local labour movement and socialist organisations and lesbian, gay and bisexual groups.  Tel 0116 223 0534

Mick Griffiths 

Wakefield

MICK IS a trade union representative at Pinderfields Hospital, where he works as a porter. Collecting 20,000 petition signatures, he spearheaded the long-running campaign for public funding for the new hospital development, and opposed the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) proposals.

Mick's efforts to force a Wakefield-wide referendum on hospital funding led to the Wakefield Express ballot of public opinion, which rejected PFI's back-door privatisation and massively supported government funding. Tel 01924 365 795

Rob Windsor 

Coventry South

ROB RECENTLY won election as a councillor on Coventry council. Rob is well-known for campaigning energetically against rent rises and opposing weaker tenancies for council tenants.

Rob led the local campaign against the poll tax.

Like all Socialist Party members standing for election, Rob promises to take only a worker's wage if elected.

Tel: 024 76 525 394

Simon Donovan

Walthamstow (Socialist Alternative)

SIMON Lives and works in Walthamstowe.  He is well known locally and nationally for defending public and community based services against privatisation and closure. Simon is a key organiser in the campaign to prevent big-business running education services in the borough.

He is presently working with tenants organisations to stop New Labour's threat to privatise all Waltham Forest council housing.

A prominent trade unionist, he has this year been elected as Chairman of the council branch of Unison, the public sector union.  Tel 020 8988 8777

Wally Kennedy

Hayes and Harlington (Socialist Alternative)

Wally was born in the Republic of Ireland, and moved to London in 1968. Wally was a councillor for eight years and has played an active role in the tenants movement, and the Transport and General Workers' Union.

He played a prominent role in the five-year battle to support the sacked Hillingdon hospital workers in their fight to defend the NHS. Wally has been leading the recent campaign against cuts in council spending

Tel 020 9751 1519

Andy Prior

Bristol East (Socialist Alliance)

Andy is 33 years old at lives in St George with his partner Elaine.  Until recently Andy taught English in a local comprehensive school. He is presently employed as a teacher at a pupil referral unit working with young people who have been excluded from secondary school.

If you can help out in the Bristol company contact Mark Baker on 0117 965 6591

Ian Page

Lewisham Deptford

IAN IS a Lewisham councillor in Pepys Ward, Deptford. A councillor for ten years, Ian has been active in defending services across the borough. He led opposition to the council's attempt to privatise local council housing.

He was expelled from the Labour Party in 1995 for opposing their policy of cuts in council housing services and has since become the first councillor to be elected for the Socialist Party in London.

Tel 020 8988 8777

Stephen Glennon

Stevenage

STEVE IS president of the Stevenage Metal Mechanics sector of the MSF union.

Steve organised two marches of thousands of Stevenage trade unionists in the 1980s and was later a national organiser of the Anti Poll Tax Federation and the biggest post-war demonstration in Britain; which was the beginning of the end of the poll tax and Thatcher. Tel 020 8988 8777

Peter Glover

Bootle

PETER IS a teacher and stood in the 1997 general election. He has campaigned against low pay, cuts in the NHS and for a clean environment for the people of Bootle. Tel 0151 922 6077

Gavin Marsh

Southampton Itchen

GAVIN IS a registered nurse who has been active in local politics for nearly 20 years. Gavin is currently leading a campaign against Southampton New Labour council's cuts.

Tel 023 8049 5266

Socialist general election candidates in Scotland

The Socialist Party is affiliated to the Committee for a Workers International (CWI), which has members and affiliated parties around the world.  CWI members in Scotland are standing as Scottish Socialist Party, (SSP) candidates in the general election.  The SSP plans to stand in all 72 Westminster seats in Scotland.  Two of the CWI members standing are:

 Harvey Duke

Dundee East

Harvey was a founding member of the anti-poll tax movement in Scotland.

He has led numerous campaigns against school closures and in defence of youth and community facilities in Dundee.

Jim McFarlane

Dundee West

Jim is a senior steward for UNISON in Dundee City Council. He was a prominent campaigner fighting for solidarity for the Timex workers during the dispute. Jim stood for the SSP in Dundee in the 1999 Scottish Parliament election.

Also:

Ronnie Stevenson

Glasgow Cathcart

Jim Halfpenny

Paisley North

Bruce Wallace

Angus

For further details contact the SSP on 0141 221 7714 and the International Socialists (CWI Scotland) on 01382 833759

 Welsh Socialist Alliance

Alec Thraves

Swansea West

Tel 01792 476246 or 07890 680685

Dave Bartlett

Cardiff South an Penarth

Tel 02920 635783 or 07855 936859

He who pays the piper...

The Funding of the Establishment Political Parties: NEW LABOUR has reluctantly admitted receiving three individual donations of £2 million each. The three donors - supermarket magnate and government minister Lord Sainsbury, wealthy publisher Lord Hamlyn and ex-Tory backer Christopher Ondaatje - are further proof of Labour's subservience to big business: and high time the trade unions break their finacial links with Labour. 

State Funding - Where do socialists stand?

Workers' MP on a Workers Wage: "Rise with your class, not out of it" -- Coventry Socialist Party councillor and former MP Dave Nellist spells out what our demand means in practice

The Tories: Paragons of sleaze

Fund the fight for socialism

Trade Union donations: Free the funds

Political Parties Act - full of holes