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Speakers:
Peter
Taaffe
Socialist Party
general secretary
Roger
Bannister
Unison general
secretary
election
candidate
(personal capacity)

public meeting
Thursday 13 May 2010 7.30pm
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square
Holborn WC1R (round the corner from Holborn tube)
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T his is the first general election for
eighteen years where the outcome
is impossible to predict.
Only one thing is certain. We are
living through a historic economic
crisis and a further decline - a 'double
dip' - is far from ruled out. And the
new government - regardless of who
wins - intends to make working class
people pay for it.
They certainly don’t expect those
who caused this crisis to pay for
it. £1.2 trillion has been thrown at
the banks, ringing up a colossal
national debt. Meanwhile £6 billion
was paid to the ‘banksters’ in
Christmas bonuses alone! Despite
massive lay-offs and redundancies,
many multinationals have continued
to make record-breaking profits.
Tesco boasted over £3 billion profit
during the depths of the recession
last year.
Bu they all agree working class
people should pay a hefty price, in
the decimation of our public services,
to the tune of 10-25%! This will
devastate masses of people’s lives
in the loss of essential services. The
Chartered Institute for Personnel and
Development predict the loss of half
a million jobs.
Trade unions in the public sector,
and especially the biggest, Unison,
have a crucial role to play in fighting
these massive cuts. Unison members
will be asking which candidates in the
general secretary election they can
trust to lead a fight.
I would like to join the Socialist Party 
I would like to find out more 
I would like to help with Roger’s election campaign 
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Fighting leadership needed in Unison – vote for Roger Bannister
Socialist Party member Roger Bannister says that local government
members should be mobilised now, with a clear message to local authorities
and all the main political parties that their union intends to resist these cuts.
The Socialist Party calls for united public sector strike action.
The current leadership of Unison gave no effective
opposition to the employers when ‘single status’ (which
was supposed to increase the pay of many women) was
used to drive down wages. Unison only put up half a fight
on pensions and now we see more attacks on public
sector pensions.
Meanwhile, unwilling or unable to put up a fight,
the Unison leadership has turned on those who
will, and is witch-hunting activists and socialists.
Four Socialist Party members in London branches
have been banned from office and three of their
branches taken into regional supervision in a
blatantly political and outrageously undemocratic
attack.
Unison members who want a democratic fighting
union should vote for Roger Bannister for general
secretary. He believes Unison should stop funding
the Labour Party, and calls for a new mass workers’
party. Roger supports the Trade Unionist and
Socialist Coalition in this general election.
Whoever wins the general opportunities to build mass support
election, it will be a weak for socialist ideas - as a real
government with a shallow basis of alternative to the three big parties
social support, attempting to carry of the bankers and the billionaires.
out deeply unpopular policies. At
a certain stage, Greece will come Come to this public meeting to
to Britain as workers are forced discuss the kind of leadership
to defend their living conditions necessary in the coming battles.
against the brutal reality of 21st Come to discuss the socialist
century capitalism. In the course alternative to this crisis-ridden,
of such movements there will be unjust capitalist system.