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From: The Socialist issue 949, 17 May 2017: Kick out the Tories! For a Corbyn-led government

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Tories out! Corbyn can win with socialist policies

Build a new workers' party

Take the wealth off the 1%

Big crowds come to cheer Jeremy Corbyn in Derby photo Steve Score, photo Steve Score (Click to enlarge)

Tory austerity has brought us...

10% real-terms cut in pay
A 1% pay cap for all public sector workers
Up to 5.5 million struggling on zero-hour contracts
185,000 hospital bed days taken up in 2016 due to malnutrition
Around half a million forced to go to foodbanks, including nurses and other workers
The (anti) Trade Union Act
The housing crisis and spiralling homelessness
The bedroom tax
Schools cuts, academisation, privatisation, and stressed-out kids
Trebling student fees (with the Lib Dems)
Racist and divisive rhetoric and policies
Threatening the very future of the NHS
Privatising our public services
Cutting corporation tax

In other words, the Tories wreak chaos and destruction on our public services and living standards

Jeremy Corbyn's manifesto includes...

A 20-point plan on workers' rights, including:

Ban zero-hour contracts
£10 an hour minimum wage by 2020
End the public sector pay cap
Reintroduce national pay bargaining
Four new bank holidays
Repeal the (anti) Trade Union Act
Part-time, temp and agency workers to have the same rights as full-time, permanent and directly employed workers from day one of employment
Clampdown on forced self-employment
Ban unpaid internships

Support for health and social care, including:

£30 billion extra funding for the NHS
Halt 'Sustainability and Transformation Plan' cuts and repeal the privatising Health and Social Care Act
End health service privatisation and bring more services into a publicly provided NHS
Reinstate student nurses' bursaries
Integrate the NHS with social care, ensuring parity for mental health services
£8 billion into social care
End 15-minute care visits
Increase carer's allowance benefits

A National Education Service, including:

30 hours' free childcare a week
Government-subsidised high-quality childcare places
End the schools cuts - an extra £7 billion for schools
Increase staffing levels, cap class sizes
Introduce free school meals for all primary-age children
Reintroduce Education Maintenance Allowance for 16 to 18-year-olds
Abolish tuition fees and reintroduce maintenance grants

Starting to tackle the housing crisis, including:

Build a million homes, half of them council and housing association homes
Introduce rent controls and longer tenancies
Reverse abolition of housing benefit for 18 to 21-year-olds
Scrap the bedroom tax

Investment in jobs and services, including:

Bring railways, energy, water and Royal Mail into public ownership
End the expansion of 'driver only operation' on trains
A ten-year national investment plan of £250 billion in the infrastructure, through a 'National Investment Bank'
Immediate energy price cap
Freeze travel fares
Stop closures of Crown Post Offices
Halt cuts to youth services and fire and rescue services
Increase corporation tax, income tax on those earning above £80,000, and implement a 'Robin Hood tax' on financial transactions
A 'fat cat tax' on excessive big business pay
Guarantee no increase in taxes for 95% of the population

And more, including:

Votes at 16
Guarantee the right of EU citizens to remain in the UK
Scrap work capability and 'personal independence payment' assessments and increase disability benefit ESA
Guarantee the pensions 'triple lock'
End support for aggressive wars of intervention and back effective action to alleviate the refugee crisis
End arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Ban fracking

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The coronavirus crisis has laid bare the class character of society in numerous ways. It is making clear to many that it is the working class that keeps society running, not the CEOs of major corporations.

The results of austerity have been graphically demonstrated as public services strain to cope with the crisis.

The government has now ripped up its 'austerity' mantra and turned to policies that not long ago were denounced as socialist. But after the corona crisis, it will try to make the working class pay for it, by trying to claw back what has been given.

The Socialist Party's material is more vital than ever, so we can continue to report from workers who are fighting for better health and safety measures, against layoffs, for adequate staffing levels, etc.
When the health crisis subsides, we must be ready for the stormy events ahead and the need to arm workers' movements with a socialist programme - one which puts the health and needs of humanity before the profits of a few.