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<br />DThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641906912949876718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323115267161112255.post-90701370690585052312017-03-22T05:53:00.002-07:002017-03-23T15:20:22.210-07:00Protest against Success RegimeCumbria Health Campaigns Together including the Socialist Party protested outside the County Council offices calling for the Council to use its powers to oppose the "Success Regime" which means cuts and closures and will open the door to the further privatisation of our NHS. Chants of "Save our NHS" were met by peeps of support from passing motorists!<br />
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<a href="http://www.itv.com/news/border/update/2017-03-22/protestors-gather-ahead-of-healthcare-meeting/">http://www.itv.com/news/border/update/2017-03-22/protestors-gather-ahead-of-healthcare-meeting/</a>DThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641906912949876718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323115267161112255.post-14762120770625934942016-12-01T15:47:00.001-08:002016-12-01T15:47:52.149-08:00Success Regime meeting protest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On Tuesday Carlisle Socialist Party, along with trade unionists and other community activists protested outside the Success Regime's public consultation in Carlisle.<br />
We then went into the meeting to join campaigners from west Cumbria, Alston and Carlisle and elsewhere, who tackled the 5-member panel on the options for healthcare services presented in their document, all of which involve cuts to cottage hospital beds and the downgrading of services at the West Cumberland Hospital. Community activists highlighted the dangers of transferring women in labour by ambulance to the already overstretched Cumberland Infirmary, and campaigners from Alston repeatedly pointed out the impossibility of residents being treated at Penrith or Carlisle. Despite the panel trying to restrict the meeting to a meaningless question and answer session, activists successfully opened it up to longer contributions from the floor. Panel members were heckled when they attempted to deny the changes were caused by budget cuts, and told that none of their options were acceptable to the meeting. We put the matter to a vote, and every one of the hundreds of members present voted to reject all of the plans. Nevertheless, the chair of Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group intends to press ahead. The public were left in no doubt that this was a sham consultation designed merely to discharge the CCG's legal duty<br />
Campaign groups will now organise the next stage in opposing these cuts, including building towards the national NHS demo on 4th March next year.<br />
<br />Robert the Brucehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14282498552607084320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323115267161112255.post-57982729028453119822016-11-18T08:59:00.001-08:002016-11-18T08:59:55.073-08:00I, Daniel Blake showingsThe Vue cinema put on showings of Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake that
exposes the cruelty and bureaucratic harassment of Britain's
dysfunctional benefits system on 17th November. Carlisle Socialists
leafleted outside the venue recieving a positive response. Everyone got a
copy of our Defend the NHS leaflet and 27 people bought a copy of the
Socialist newspaper.<br />
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DThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641906912949876718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323115267161112255.post-57022911369076765292016-11-09T07:59:00.001-08:002016-11-10T08:54:40.767-08:00Petition HandoverToday, Wednesday 9th of Novemeber, members and supporters of Carlisle Socialist Party handed over our petition calling for maintaining the existing number of care beds in Cumbria. <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/1qfhxbdqti6vrf7/Statement%20to%20Council%20_new_logo.pdf?dl=0">Our covering letter</a>. <a href="http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/Dont-cut-care-home-beds-say-campaigners-dcfa51a9-60b4-4918-902c-b482c670a43d-ds#commentswrapper">A link to the write up in the News and Star.</a><br />
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<br />DThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641906912949876718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323115267161112255.post-37194533030439423032016-11-08T08:10:00.003-08:002016-11-09T07:46:37.158-08:00Care Home Petition HandoverTomorrow, Carlisle Socialist Party will be handing over the petition
against the loss of care home beds at the Courts, Carlisle at 1pm (best
to arrive a little sooner). Over five Saturdays we collected in the
region of 1 300 signatures. We would welcome anyone to come along and
show support.DThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641906912949876718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323115267161112255.post-26357083177313524782016-11-01T06:53:00.000-07:002016-11-01T06:53:09.150-07:00Text of Open Letter to Jeremy Corbyn on Care Bed Cuts<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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We were very pleased that you were re-elected and fended off
the attempt to return the LP to “New Labour” and its programme of unfair cuts
to public services. It’s clear that you have the support of hundreds of
thousands of people who want to campaign against austerity. That’s the
immediate gain for declaring Labour to be an “anti-austerity party” and points
the way to winning mass support at a future general election.</div>
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So we are writing to you on behalf of 1,000 Cumbrians to ask
you to use your influence on your members on Cumbria county council in the hope
that they will scrap their plan to halve the number of care home beds under
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The seven local authority owned care homes in Cumbria don’t
meet statutory standards<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and have to be
replaced by new ones with better facilities – which we all support, of course.
But the council has announced plans to halve the number of beds it will provide
from 117 to 60 to save costs. Together with plans from the cynically misnamed
“Success Regime” (sent into Cumbria by NHS bosses acting on behalf of the
government) to close the beds in several cottage hospitals, these short-sighted
cuts will inevitably lead to a crisis in social care and in the local NHS too.
Respite care will become all but impossible; leaving old or frail people at
home and relying on short home visits (which exclude shopping, cooking,
housework etc) are a cop-out from social responsibility; and one consequence
will be increased “bed-blocking” of hospital beds.</div>
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In recent years Blairite Labour county councillors have used
coalitions with the Tories (yes, with the Tories!) and now with the Lib-Dems to
dutifully implement Osborne’s deficit reduction plan, without any serious
opposition. Now they are attacking the most vulnerable members of our community
by implementing cuts to social care, public health and school nurses determined
by Osborne’s last April budget – as part of a timetable now abandoned by
Osborne and May as unachievable. The crisis in social care is having such an
effect on the NHS that even Hammond may make concessions in his Autumn
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We therefore ask you to set a clear signal of Labour’s new
course by calling on your county councillors to stop these cuts. The new care
homes must at least maintain if not improve the current provision, with the
required number of staff.</div>
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This is an opportunity to show the public that Tory cuts are
not aimed at “cutting waste” in a “bloated bureaucracy” but about permanently
destroying historical social gains and vital, frontline services. Labour
councillors should therefore make a public demand for the government to provide
the necessary funds.</div>
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Jeremy, ordinary people here are outraged by this latest
attack. Not one person has publicly defended it. Over 1,000 people have already
come to our stall to sign our petition and express their anger. We’ve heard
them call local councillors all sorts of names, but “heroes” wasn’t one of
them. We know that you and your supporters are honest in opposing austerity and
offering a clear alternative policy, but seeing “Labour” councillors just doing
the Tories’ dirty work for them will damage the credibility of your message.
Action speaks louder than words, and this planned action seems almost designed
to sabotage the attempt by you and your activists to inspire and mobilise the
poorest and most downtrodden to help you oust the Tories.</div>
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Please act now.</div>
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Yours fraternally,</div>
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Brent Kennedy,</div>
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<br />DThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641906912949876718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323115267161112255.post-80223287957202582442016-10-22T14:49:00.003-07:002016-10-22T14:49:33.032-07:00Care Home Stall - 22nd October <span data-offset-key="pa6j-0-0"><span data-text="true">On 22nd October,
Carlisle Socialist Party organised a stall in the town centre to
continue it's campaign against care home closures. The County Council's
plan to close seven care homes throughout Cumbria and replace it with
newer facilities with half the number of beds, rationing out care and
ending respite care, was met with anger and disaproval by residents who
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DThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641906912949876718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323115267161112255.post-58205052556571477912016-06-15T13:01:00.001-07:002016-06-15T13:03:10.388-07:00Junior Doctors Petition HandoverOn Tuesday evening 14.06.16, members from the Trade Union and Socialists against Cuts (TUSC), met with representatives of the Junior Doctors at the Cumberland Infirmary, to hand over a petition in support of them. The petition contained over 500 signatures, collected over two weekends, at stalls in the town centre. The Junior Doctors were preparing to discuss their response to the latest Government proposals.<br />
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Brent Kennedy, branch secretary of TUSC, stated, “irrespective of the outcome of the meeting, this petition shows the level of the support for the Doctors, and the fight continues against PFI, cuts to jobs and services, and the privatisation of the NHS”. The Junior Doctors present, offered their thanks for the support offered by TUSC.<br />
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<br />DThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641906912949876718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323115267161112255.post-70037914334961056222016-02-29T02:02:00.006-08:002016-02-29T08:34:00.056-08:00No NHS Sell-off<div data-contents="true">
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DThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641906912949876718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323115267161112255.post-15924355499187735892016-02-22T16:51:00.000-08:002016-02-22T16:51:37.448-08:00County Council budget meeting protestOn Thursday 18th February members of Carlisle Socialist Party, along members of Unison, protested outside Cumbria County Council's budget setting meeting in Kendal. The council was intending to make £25m cuts to services, with up to 2,000 jobs being at risk. Councillors entering the building were asked whether they would be voting for cuts, and if not, what else they intended to do to oppose the vicious attacks on local government by the Tories. Some declined to comment, whilst others vociferously argued that they had 'no choice' and told us to go and protest outside the houses of parliament instead!<br />
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Several Unison members expressed dismay that councillors who were trade unionists and also members of Momentum in Cumbria were intending to vote in favour of a cuts budget. Most were agreed that such a stance was a self-fulfilling prophecy; cuts this year would lead to ever more cuts in the future, as has been shown over the last 5 years. The Tories have made it clear that they plan to abolish central government contributions long before 2020, leaving poorer areas unable to provide much-needed services, and taking local government back to the 1920s. Councillors voting for cuts have walked into a trap.<br />
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At the start of the meeting Brent Kennedy read out a statement from the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) calling on the council to set a needs-based (no cuts) budget, a position now supported by the main public sector unions Unite and Unison. We suggested using reserves and prudential borrowing powers to make up the shortfall. This would be a temporary measure to buy time to mobilise workers to demand that the government provide the necessary funding permanently. We pointed out that the government deficit of £70bn could easily be paid off by collecting the estimated £120bn unpaid taxes of wealthy individuals and corporations, illustrating Jeremy Corbyn's statement that "austerity is not an economic necessity but a political choice". <br />
We urged those councillors who disagreed with the cuts ideology to have the courage of their convictions and start the fight back by passing a no-cuts budget.<br />
The Labour party has now officially declared itself an 'anti-austerity party'. We warned that they are unlikely to have much credibility with existing voters, nor to enthuse alienated non-voters, if they say one thing nationally but do completely the opposite locally.<br />
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In his reply, council leader Stuart Young tried to muddy the waters by talking about an 'illegal budget', even though he knew that this was irrelevant, as our statement made clear in advance. Brent Kennedy had to interject, to the annoyance of the chair, that this was not the case, and Mr Young conceded the point. So why did he bring this up in the first place?<br />
His only real argument was that the use of reserves for one year alone would mean worse cuts in the following years, and that he therefore 'had no choice'. This gained several murmurs of approval from other councillors. In other words, they have no concept of using the time this signal would give to actively campaign on the issue of austerity and mobilise the working class against the government.<br />
Mr Young correctly described the Tories as having "declared war on local government". Unfortunately it's a completely one-sided war, as the Labour Party in Cumbria has hoisted the white flag without firing a shot.<br />
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It should be noted that in the recent coverage of the meeting in the Cumberland News, no mention was made of either our call to use prudential borrowing in addition to reserves, nor that we accept this as only a temporary measure, and merely the first part of a campaign to secure the funding. The media debate is thus being framed to suggest that what we are proposing is fantasy, whereas in fact it is councillors who are living in a fantasy world by continuing to believe that slashing ever more from our public services will satisfy this rapacious government. A line must be drawn sometime. If not now, then when?<br />
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<br />DThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641906912949876718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323115267161112255.post-32120359489702748822016-02-01T08:24:00.000-08:002016-02-01T08:26:15.564-08:00Alternative Burns NightLast week Carlisle Socialist Party hosted an Alternative Burns night in the Milbourne Arms.<br />
As Brent Kennedy summed up in the Immortal Memory toast "this will definitely not be the tired, old, conservative ritual of Burns' Nights but will be another free and easy drink, laugh and scran that Burns himself would have enjoyed. The stuffy British establishment has always felt uncomfortable with this farm labourer and genius who showed up their own mediocrity. And he stepped on their toes big time, opposing their profitable slavery, bigotry and racism, especially when he supported the Rights of Man and the French and American Revolutions. All the more reason to celebrate."<br />
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Music was provided by Johnny Foster of Hardwike Circus, John Chambers and The Now and Again Band with individuals reading poems. Around forty people turned out in total in what was generally regarded as a good night out. All proceeds went to the Socialist Party fighting fund.<br />
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<br />DThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641906912949876718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323115267161112255.post-59176157530183377052015-09-17T10:50:00.003-07:002015-09-17T10:50:55.127-07:00Flyer on how councils can resist the cuts<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“For the
Conservatives, the deficit is just an excuse to railroad through the same old
Tory agenda: driving down wages, cutting taxes for the wealthiest...and
attacking trade unions. You can’t cut your way to prosperity, you have to build
it.” – <b>Jeremy Corbyn.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Corbyn has
made it clear that cutting jobs, living standards and public services are not
an economic necessity but a political choice, and now he has a huge mandate
against austerity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The next big
battleground against cuts will be local councils. In November Osborne will
announce a further 25-40% cut in local government funding on top of the 38%
cuts to services so far. Rather than meekly do the Tories’ dirty work for them,
Corbyn has now called on Labour councillors to refuse to vote for cuts budgets.
So far only a few Labour councillors have done the right thing and have been
rewarded for sticking to their principles with expulsion by the Blairites, but
now Corbyn has publicly pledged to “support Labour councillors who support
their communities.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Tories
were only elected by 24% of the electorate. A one-day general strike against
austerity and the undemocratic
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week by the TUC Conference – and a refusal to pass cuts budgets by a number of
Labour led councils, backed by a mobilised local community, would force the government to retreat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ironically,
the 2011 Localism Act now gives councils a new “ power of competence” to do
“anything apart from that which is specifically prohibited”. Councillors can legally
use their discretionary powers to use reserves and “prudential borrowing” to
refuse cuts, then mobilise pressure from below to force the government to pay
up. This is now legally a “matter of judgement” which can overrule finance
officers’ advice. Surcharge has been abolished. So <b>“where there’s a will there’s a way!”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We want to
discuss with anti-cuts councillors how to draw up a People’s Budget based on
the needs of local people. If they agree, we’ll campaign to get them
re-elected. If not, we’ll need to stand candidates against the cuts. To plan
this strategy in more detail we invite you to a:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Monday,
21<sup>st</sup> September, 7pm in Club Britannia, 35 Lowther St, Carlisle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
DThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641906912949876718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323115267161112255.post-50862477509900995212015-08-09T09:25:00.002-07:002015-08-09T09:25:17.540-07:00Tory Budget LetterLetter published in News and Star<br /><br />
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If you liked the Bedroom Tax you'll love the new £30 a week tax on the sick and disabled. George Osborne is slashing the ESA WRAG group to almost the level of the very miserly JSA.</div>
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One wonders what the advantage of jumping through the immense hoops to claim the benefit are, perhaps immunity from the rip-off "work for your benefit" schemes that the government says will help claimants fill out their CVs (can't paid work fill out a CV too?) although some on the WRAG have been hastled to join just such schemes.</div>
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People will wonder what they paid national insurance for all their life. Of course, unlike the rich that evade and avoid £120bn a year in tax, taxes on working people can't be ducked.</div>
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Other attacks include rent hikes for those in social housing, reductions in the benefit cap and unprecedented attacks on in-work benefits that subsidise employers who pay scandalously low wages.</div>
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If they really want to save the benefits bill they should raise wages to £10 an hour and introduce a rent cap, funny how austerity always seems to redistribute money upwards. The Sheriff of Nottingham would have been proud.</div>
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A £10 an hour minimum wage and co-ordinated strike action are official TUC policy so the unions should step up and initiate a serious fightback against the failed program of austerity.<br /><br />Daniel Thorburn, Upperby</div>
DThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641906912949876718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323115267161112255.post-54008147904618024972015-08-09T09:16:00.002-07:002015-08-09T09:21:39.348-07:00SYRIZA letterLetter published in News and Star.<br />
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Well done Hazel and Stephen Grahame for showing solidarity from Carlisle in Athens, and well done the Greek people for rejecting austerity misery, despite Tsipras’s capitulation to EU blackmail. Greek debt wasn’t caused by lazy workers drinking ouzo and smashing plates – even before the world banking crash and mass unemployment (26%, over 50% for youth) they worked the longest hours in Europe for little pay. It was created by European banks recklessly lending corrupt Greek Tory and Labour governments money, for example to buy submarines, planes and weapon systems from Siemens, Mannesman etc, for what was the world’s fourth costliest military, International banks, corporations and EU politicians colluded in the corruption by the rich and powerful. Goldman Sachs helped the Greek conservative PM, Samaras, to fiddle the books to join the Euro, with the knowledge of the Eurozone leaders.<br />
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There was no bailout for the impoverished Greek people but for the European banks, offloading their unpayable loans onto state institutions. Now they are making Eurozone taxpayers and the Greek working and middle classes, especially pensioners, pay the bill. But the Thatcherite economics of austerity have resulted in 5 years of depression, crashing the economy by 25%, halving living standards, throwing millions into destitution and despair – yet worsening the debt level even further. Now even the IMF admits the country will be pushed deeper into permanent debt and decline without a partial write-off, yet they and the EU/ECB still oppose this demand from Syriza.<br />
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Why? Because they are using their unelected power to blackmail and sabotage the democratically elected Syriza government, force regime change and impose their bureaucratic will firstly on the Greek voters and, by example, on the coming elections in Spain, Portugal and Ireland. Anyone in the Labour Party or trade unions here who thinks the EU is somehow “social” needs to check this brutal reality.<br />
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Carlisle Socialist Party believes that Syriza must now cancel the debt and determinedly lead the people out of the undemocratic EU and Euro. The constitution, which exempts the billionaire owners of the world’s biggest shipping fleet from paying taxes, must be scrapped and the fleet, along with the banks and corrupt corporations, nationalised. Democratic control and planning by the Greek workers would then allow the economy to be rebuilt in their interests.<br />
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Carlisle Socialist PartyDThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641906912949876718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323115267161112255.post-49971989515091099312015-08-09T09:04:00.003-07:002015-08-09T09:10:23.871-07:00Corbyn campaignLetter published in News and Star<br />
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The Labour party establishment just can’t understand the enthusiasm for Jeremy Corbyn’s socialist policies. They claim that the British people support globalisation, cuts to jobs, services and living standards, privatisation and attacking the welfare state. They say that Labour lost the election because it was too different from the Tories, therefore it has to become even more like the Tories.<br />
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They ignore their wipeout in their traditional heartlands of Scotland, where their working class bedrock shifted to a party claiming to be anti-cuts, anti-Trident and further left. But a poll published in the Independent this week shows that the public are much farther left than Labour, with a majority agreeing with Corbyn on the following issues (figures exclude “don’t knows”): rail nationalisation (60% for, 20% against); for a 75% tax rate on incomes over £1m (56-31); banning nuclear weapons (64-21); rent controls on landlords (59-7); for a legal (real) living wage (60-31); scrap tuition fees (49-31); condemn the Iraq war (43-37); and to oppose bombing Syria (60-24).<br />
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In other words, it’s not the public that are subservient to the rich and powerful, it’s Burnham, Cooper and Kendal. But now Blair has shown the true face of the Labour machine, admitting “I wouldn’t want to win [a general election] on an old-fashioned leftist platform. Even if I thought it was the route to victory, I wouldn’t take it.” How disloyal is that? This traitor would rather see the Tories win again than his own party! Why shouldn’t he be expelled instead of real socialists?<br />
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The Socialist Party wishes Jeremy Corbyn well. But win or lose, he’ll need to unite the whole left and the unions against inevitable attacks by the Labour right, to build a real socialist party for workers. Anyone interested in this is welcome to attend our meetings every Monday at 7pm in Club Britannia, Lowther St.<br />
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Brent Kennedy,<br />
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Carlisle Socialist PartyDThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641906912949876718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323115267161112255.post-23936220893746936732015-02-16T05:50:00.000-08:002015-02-16T05:50:11.912-08:00HSBC Tax Evasion ScandalPress release for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition in advance of it's protest over HSBC in Carlisle. The write up in the News and Star is <a href="http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/tax-demonstration-outside-carlisle-hsbc-1.1192935" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<br />If you’re desperately poor and get caught stealing food you’ll have your name and photo published and thrown into jail, if you’re a millionaire tax fraudster you just pay HMRC a fine of 10% of the tax due and in return get immunity from prosecution and your name remains hidden.<br /><br />For five years the government has sat on proof that HSBC bank has facilitated evasion of British taxation on an industrial scale, as well as laundering money for terrorists, dictators and murderous drug cartels from Mexico and Colombia to Paris. <br /><br />Yet in that time only one out of 6,000 British millionaires committing tax evasion from secret Swiss accounts has been jailed, and he was already being investigated. The Guardian mentions the example of clothing tycoon Richard Caring walking out of HSBC Geneva with a suitcase full of £2.25m in used notes. Coincidentally, he also donated £413,000 to the Tories and loaned £2m to Labour.<br /><br />Why hasn’t HSBC been prosecuted? Instead of throwing the Executive Chairman, Stephen Green, into jail, David Cameron brought him into his government as Trade and Investment Minister! Then the head of HMRC took a new job with...HSBC!<br />
<br />The problem isn’t individual corruption, the entire economic and political system is criminally corrupt. The establishment parties are beholden to their super-rich backers and run the state in their interests, not ours. Tax avoidance is facilitated by government legislation like the notorious non-dom status. The wealthy and big business are allowed to get away with £120bn tax fiddles every year – a sum which dwarfs the budget deficit used as the excuse for austerity for the rest of us.<br /><br />TUSC demands the nationalisation of the banks – not under the control of the old boys’ network as at RBS and Lloyds, but under the democratic control of ordinary bank staff and the public to ensure transparency and accountability.<br /><br />Tax havens under British jurisdiction should be closed down and all hidden foreign bank accounts should be confiscated the way the police seize money from the proceeds of crime. TUSC Carlisle invites the public to join a protest outside HSBC bank in English St, Carlisle, this Saturday at 11am, with a stall, leaflets and petition – placards and banners welcome. This will be followed up by a public meeting at 7pm on Monday in <br /><br />Club Britannia, Lowther St.<br /><br />Brent KennedyDThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641906912949876718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323115267161112255.post-87403481392458732262014-11-24T04:14:00.003-08:002014-11-24T04:14:50.949-08:00Once again on Parking Tax (Published readers letter)<!--[if !mso]>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Labour/Lib-Dem Cumbria County Council has been forced into a
humiliating defeat on what we dubbed the "Parking Tax", a stealth tax
as part of their austerity budget. The front page headline in theNews &
Star read "Parking charges victory - climbdown in face of opposition"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and their editorial announced "Victory
for people power." <br />
<br />
While they naturally focussed on their own campaign and the interests of city
centre businesses, there can be no doubt that the highpoint of the opposition
to the council was the 150-strong public meeting of "Denton Holme Stop the
Parking Tax" organised by Socialist Party members. <br />
<br />
This was a broad movement of opposition,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>with residents in different areas spontaneously collecting signatures
from neighbours on their own petitions. Its the sort of protest against
particular aspects of public spending cuts which we have been preparing for.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Local SP members systematically leafleted the working class area of
Denton Holme, organising the public meeting where they explained the issues and
coordinated the wider collection of signatures with other residents, organising
the street protest outside the council offices and successfully spreading the
message further afield through the local press and regional TV. <br />
<br />
The N&S editorial made some pertinent points for future battles against the
cuts: "People power today claims its victory...councillors have
surrendered to intense public pressure and completed a U-turn...for a long time
the fight was deemed futile by a council determined to see through its plans to
claw back cash when faced with massive central government funding cuts...But
overwhelming public opinion is never futile." <br />
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This shows that the council can be forced to retreat if enough pressure is
mobilised. Labour Carlisle city councillors had pointed out that it was illegal
to use a Traffic Regulation Order to raise money to cover a budget deficit
rather than for traffic management, but then went silent. But it became clear
that a movement of residents outside their control and with a political
alternative wouldn't be so compliant. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This is just one small victory, and of course Labour will now either
look for other ways to take money off the working class(eg increasing Council
Tax or other charges, which we will also oppose) or coming back to the Parking
Tax better prepared, but it does set a positive precedent for other anti-cuts
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In particular it raises the question about what the local government
unions, with far bigger resources than us, could and should now be doing to
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Brent Kennedy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Parking
Charge Victory”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As one of
the organisers of the “Stop the Parking Tax” campaign in Denton Holme, I am
very pleased to learn that Cumbria County Council has put on hold its plans to
charge for residents’ parking permits, and I would like to thank everyone who
supported the campaign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I do not
think we can be complacent at achieving what the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">News & Star</i> (18 November 2014) calls “Parking Charge Victory”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Council
has not abandoned its proposals, merely deferred implementing them until it has
sorted out some legal or procedural problems, which Councillor Little says may
take 12-18 months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Council Leader
Stewart Young also does not say the proposals have been scrapped, only that
there will need to be “further public consultation” before they are brought
back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He now says
“Having asked local people for their views on these matters, we must listen to
them.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does he think that the public
will have different views if the Council decides to “consult” them again in a
year’s time?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And why did the Council not
listen to the public during the last round of consultation on the budget?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The
Council claimed that 58% of “people” supported charging for residents’ parking
permits and only 26% disagreed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But only
a small proportion of the people of Cumbria voted in that consultation, and
most of those who did, almost certainly did not live in residential parking zones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the same consultation, the Council admits
that more people voted against town centre parking charges than for them, but
the Council added those who did not vote to those who were in favour, and
declared that the majority were not opposed to the charges.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Councillor Young and his colleagues
only “listen” to the people when it suits them, and they distort the results of
consultation to support their own plans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>John Stevenson MP claims this shows “how out of touch the Labour-run
Council have become. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not think the
politicians are speaking to people.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is rich coming from him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
County Council is now a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition, but it was previously
a Conservative-Labour coalition, and both regimes claimed they had to make cuts
and impose charges because of orders from the national government – a
Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, elected by absolutely no one!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Council’s retreat on these
charges is indeed an achievement for “People Power” (as your editorial states),
but </span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">the only way to
ensure that the Council does not impose the charges at a later date would be to
elect councillors who will really represent the people of Cumbria, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">who are prepared to fight for the resources
which the county needs to provide the services which the public has a right to
expect – councillors who will oppose central government’s austerity programme
and refuse to implement all of the cuts in jobs and services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of the existing political parties offer
candidates pledged to fight for the people, so we have to look for alternatives
from within our own local communities.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Council’s “U-turn” is only a
tactical retreat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The people may have
won the first round, but the fight is by no means over, so let us keep up the
attack.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Grahame
Higginson, Denton Holme, Carlisle<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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Lee Sherriff rightly calls for higher wages and less
inequality, but a Labour government will give neither, too afraid of the rich
and powerful whose sole interests they now represent.</div>
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Britain is the only industrialised country where inequality
has worsened since 2000, with the richest 10%<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>increasing their share of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>national wealth from 51% to 54%.</div>
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workforce. Top CEOs now “earn” as much as 170 average workers. The richest 5
families now own more than 20% of the population.</div>
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This is the first decade when absolute poverty has risen,
affecting 8.7m adults and 4.1m children. But even the government’s commission
on social mobility castigates ALL political parties for having secretly
abandoned their legal obligation to halve child poverty by 2020 – just too
dishonest to admit it. 1in5 children in Carlisle suffer poverty, but Labour
will extend the Tory freeze on child benefit even longer.</div>
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Its chair, Alan Milburn, even shows that Labour’s pledge of
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Everyone is now “against” inequality – even the IMF, CBI and
Institute of Directors, whose members enjoyed a 21% salary increase this year –
but none are willing to act. Here are two litmus tests for Lee Sherriff:</div>
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The Labour-led local government employers have just rejected
a modest demand for a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>£1 an hour wage
rise and offered the Labour-led unions Unison, Unite and GMB a rotten deal
which would extend another real wage cut until 2016. Will she condemn that?</div>
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And Ed Miliband has even refused to support the low paid
women care workers in his Doncaster seat exploited by an American private
equity company which cut their wages by 35% when “caring” was privatised. Will
she give them her public support?</div>
DThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14641906912949876718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3323115267161112255.post-84432390885245157872014-11-24T04:08:00.002-08:002014-11-24T04:09:34.734-08:00State Management Scheme (Published readers letter in News and Star)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Readers have only until Friday left to see the exhibition in
Carlisle’s Old Town Hall on the successful State Management Scheme, the 200 nationalised
pubs and brewery in our area which was destroyed by the Tories in 1971.<br />
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The SMS was living proof of the superiority of public
ownership, paying a profit to the Home Office every year since 1927. A table
shows the award-winning Carlisle State Bitter, Keg and Mild offered a higher
specific gravity and alcohol content than the usual bland brews for a third
cheaper.<br />
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It would have been even more successful under democratic
control by the staff and customers instead of the Whitehall bureaucrats who
prevented it from advertising and selling outside the area. The 20 beers from
other brewers on sale in our pubs <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were
no match.<br />
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The state pubs were real social centres for local
communities, with their own sports teams and regular entertainment (my Dad,
Tommy, performed in many of them). Sadly, “entrepreneurial free enterprise” has
since managed to kill most of them off.<br />
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The 1970 Tory election campaign was largely funded by the
“Big Seven” brewery companies, who got their payback with the privatisation of
the SMS (today they are financed by the hedge funds). The Labour Party, then a
workers’ party, answered “We believe that if a few firms are able to dictate to
the government in this way they should be taken over.”<br />
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This was the first privatisation which paved the way for
Thatcher and Blair/Brown to plunder the common wealth, but it was fought
against by the working class of Carlisle. I wrote the leaflet for the LP and
trade union campaign which was distributed all across town.<br />
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How far Labour has since abandoned its socialist principles
and the interests of workers is shown in the contrast between its support for
privatisation today and its stance then. A regional conference of the LP held
in the Viaduct Hotel adopted my resolution, including the following: “The
denationalisation of the Carlisle pubs and brewery is part of the Tory plan to
hive off all publicly owned industries and hand them over to their friends in
big business...We demand not only the retention of the publicly owned pubs and
brewery, but the extension of nationalisation to all the breweries, in
particular the big seven brewery monopolies, under democratic workers’ control,
with compensation being paid only on the basis of proven need.”<br />
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As passengers, utility consumers and even as socialisers we
are paying the price for this failure every day.<br />
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Brent Kennedy,</div>
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Carlisle Socialist Party</div>
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