The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition says:
“No to Cuts and Privatisation!
Make the Bosses pay!”
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New left-wing coalition to challenge for a seat on London Assembly
27 January 2012
TUSC press release:
A new alliance, the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC), made up of trade union members and socialists, is to stand candidates in the Greater London Election on 3 May to challenge the all-party support for the government’s austerity cuts and pay freeze.
The coalition expects to win support from trade unionists and other voters who are angered by the recent statements of Labour leader Ed Miliband and the Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, in which they stated that they will not reverse the Government’s cuts and that they support its pay freeze.
Trade unionists and socialists prepare for May elections
04 February 2012
Last Saturday over 50 prospective candidates and campaign organisers from around the country met to plan the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition's (TUSC) challenge in May's local and London Assembly (GLA) elections.
Following the statements by Eds Milband and Balls, the leaders of the Labour Party, saying that they support the government coalition's cuts and that a Labour government would not reverse them, the question of building an anti-cuts working class political alternative is an idea that millions will be more open to than ever before.
TUSC conference: Socialists prepare for local elections
04 February 2012
Activists gathered in central London last Saturday to discuss the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) campaign for this year’s local elections.
Many areas have elections this May and TUSC is planning to stand anti-cuts candidates.
What we’ve got at the moment is a three-party consensus,” said TUSC national committee member Nick Wrack. “Nobody speaks up at a national level for the working class.
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition Merseyside
29 January 2012
Next meeting Friday 3rd February, 7.00pm The Casa (cellar bistro), 29 Hope Street, Liverpool. L1 9BQ
Any queries please contact Daren Ireland – Merseyside TUSC on 07787128498
Main item – report back from the recent TUSC national conference
- And arising from that
1/ We appeal for all those who wish to fight against all cuts to consider standing themselves as TUSC candidates - “Trade Unionists & Socialists Against Cuts” – in the 2012 local election on Merseyside
2/ help work to raise TUSC’s profile locally, and to participate in building to our local election challenge against all the pro-cuts councillors who are voting for and carrying out the Con Dem coalition cuts throughout the local authorities around Merseyside
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition Bulletin No.29
23 January 2012
TUSC Election campaign Conference
Saturday 28 January 2012,
11:00am – 4:00pm, University of London Union, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HY:
ULU Contact page
11-00am to 1-30pm: How can local councillors fight the cuts?
Cllr Dave Nellist , Michael Lavalette and Nick Wrack to speak for ten minutes each, followed by a ‘Question Time’ format discussion...
2-00pm to 4-00pm: Organising an election campaign
Maxine Bowler, Hannah Sell, and Pete McClaren to speak for ten minutes each, followed by discussion...
RUGBY TUSC PUBLIC MEETING
THE FIGHT AGAINST ALL CUTS GOES ON - SAVE OUR SERVICES – FIGHT FOR THE ALTERNATIVE!
RUGBY UNITED RAILWAY CLUB, Railway Terrace (corner of Spring St)
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 26 at 7pm
SPEAKERS:
BOB CROW General Secretary, RMT and TUSC National Steering Ctte
JANE NELLIST Secretary, Coventry NUT & Coventry Anti Cuts Ctte
STEVE ROBERTS Chair Warwks Fire Brigades Union (FBU) & Rugby TUSC
JODIE HANNIS Youth Fight for Jobs/Jarrow March for jobs
CHAIR: PETE McLAREN Prospective TUSC Candidate Lawford&Kings Newnham
Greater London Assembly elections May 2012
1 October 2011
A call to support anti-cuts candidates from Steve Hedley,
Ian Leahair,
John Reid and Ben Sprung, (RMT, FBU)
Dear Sister/Brother,
We
believe that in next year’s Greater London Assembly elections there must be
trade union and socialist candidates who oppose all the cuts being forced
through by the Con-Dem government.
We cannot support Labour’s policy that some
cuts are necessary but should be implemented more slowly. We deplore Ed Miliband’s
criticism of millions of trade union members who are ready to strike over
pensions.
A framework plan for developing TUSC into 2012
20 July 2011
The proposals below have been circulated amongst the TUSC steering committee with general agreement. However, some trade union members of the steering committee want to discuss them further amongst TUSC supporters within their unions before they formally endorse them. In accordance with the federal character of TUSC therefore, they are still draft proposals waiting for agreement by the constituent parts of the coalition.
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) has now been in existence for 18 months.
12 May 2011
The following results for TUSC candidates in late-counting Town Council elections have now been received. With these figures included, the total vote for TUSC candidates in the English local elections on May 5th was 26,765.
South East;
Dover Town Council
Buckland ---
Peter McHugh ---
Lab 880; Lab 834; Lab 834; Ind 715; TUSC 366 (10.1%)
Some initial observations on the TUSC election results
8 May 2011
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) stood 174 candidates in the local elections in England on 5 May 2011.
By Nick Wrack, TUSC steering committee member
It’s always important to have a sense of proportion. When dealing with election results, it’s vital. It’s easy to exaggerate election results; to put a favourable gloss on them in order to bolster the morale of your supporters. Elections are brutal. You can’t argue with the results. But how we interpret them must include looking at them in context.
Overall the results are a good initial foray into the local elections...
6 May 2011
Total number of candidates: 143
In addition to the 143 Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidates in the May 2011 UK local elections, there were 18 Socialist Alternative candidates in Coventry and eight Democratic Labour Party candidates in Walsall who have endorsed the TUSC local elections policy platform but are appearing on the ballot paper under their established electoral names.
In Leicester, there were also four candidates of the Unity for Peace and Socialism party, and a mayoral candidate, who stood on a common platform with the TUSC candidates in the city. Their votes are also recorded here.
Councils in which TUSC candidates contested a seat: 47
The political composition of the council before the May 5th elections is indicated in parentheses
RMT press release, 3 May 2011
With more data out this morning showing that another half a
million jobs are under threat, and that family budgets have been slashed by
nearly £1000a year as a result of ConDem cuts, RMT General
Secretary Bob Crow has accused the political class, led by Nick Clegg and David
Cameron, of a deliberate attempt
to divert attention from harsh economic realities with the AV referendum.
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said:
“With forecasters today showing that half a million more jobs are on the block, and yet more evidence that families will be up to a thousand pounds a year worse off under the ConDems, it is no surprise that Cameron and Clegg want to distract attention with their pathetic AV Punch and Judy show...”
Fight the cuts with TUSC: more than just a 'protest vote'
From The Socialist newspaper, 6 April 2011
In 55 local authorities there will be the chance to support candidates who will refuse to implement the cuts
Over 180 candidates are standing on the 'no cuts' platform of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC), the election alliance set up last year with the backing of the RMT transport workers' union general secretary Bob Crow, leading national officials of the PCS civil servants' union, the vice-president of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), Nina Franklin, and the recently retired general secretary of the POA prison officers' union, Brian Caton.
TUSC leader slams Osborne’s budget
Thursday 24 March 2011
TUSC national steering committee member and RMT general secretary Bob Crow said:
'This isn’t a budget - it’s a con-trick. The big issues of stagflation, mass unemployment and the attacks on standards of living and public services are ignored and instead we get a series of meaningless gimmicks while the austerity agenda rips through our communities.
'While nurses are being sacked, lives torn apart and core services are hammered into the ground the smirk on the faces of George Osborne, David Cameron and Nick Clegg grows wider by the minute.
'Make no mistake, this is a class war budget with its roots deep in the playing fields of Eton, designed to shift the balance even further towards big-business and the wealthy elite who finance the Conservative Party.
Lincoln Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition election launch meeting
Tuesday 29th March
St Mary-le-Wigford Church,
St Marys Street,
Lincoln
7pm - 9pm
For more info, ring Nick on 07793 682201
The Socialist, 26 January 2011
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) conference on 22 January was attended by 150 people and aimed to, according to chair Dave Nellist, 'lay the basis for hundreds of challenges in the council elections this year'.
Dave, a Coventry Socialist Party councillor and former MP, spoke of the need to increase the profile of the TUSC election challenge, including by promoting the campaign at the TUC national anti-cuts demonstration on 26 March.
The first speaker, Independent Socialist Preston councillor and Socialist Workers Party member Michael Lavalette, said that Preston city council and Lancashire county council cuts add up to £180 million, with attacks on children's services and pensioner services affecting the most vulnerable.
Socialist Worker, 25 January 2011
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) met last Saturday to discuss May’s council elections.
Independent socialist councillor and SWP member Michael Lavalette and councillor Dave Nellist from the Socialist Party addressed the meeting.
RMT boss Bob Crow attacks 'partying' bankers
BBC, 8 January 2011
Business Secretary Vince Cable is 'standing idly by' as bankers are set to be paid billions in bonuses, a union leader has said.
The RMT's Bob Crow said bankers were still 'partying like it\'s 1999' despite government calls to curb bonuses.
BBC business editor Robert Peston says the coalition is now resigned to billions being paid out, albeit at lower predicted levels than in 2010.
Mr Crow said about £7bn was about to be "shovelled over" in bonuses to the bankers.
"There will be anger on the streets as people realise that the same people who created the UK financial crisis are still living in the lap of luxury while the rest of us are told to take the hit," he said.
"With the NHS running out of beds and flu vaccine, commuters bled dry and VAT sent sky high, they are still partying like it's 1999 down in the Square Mile while Vince Cable and the ConDem government stand idly by."
TUSC leader Bob Crow backs student protests
7 December 2010
TRANSPORT UNION RMT today called on its members and the entire trade union movement to get out on the streets this week in full support of the student fees protests and to pile the pressure on Lib Dem MP’s as the first signs of major cracks in the ConDem coalition begin to open up.
RMT has written to all its branches and is directly emailing and texting members urging them to support the local protests on Wednesday and the national protest on Thursday – the day of the Commons vote.
RMT General Secretary Bob Crow, who will be speaking at the 3pm rally at the Westminster end of Victoria Embankment on Thursday 9 December, said:
"Last week students supported our tube members on their picket lines and this week we will be out shoulder to shoulder with the students in their protests over the jacking up of tuition fees."
Launch of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
