Working class socialist campaigner Anne McAllister is standing for the North East Ward in a Glasgow City Council by-election on 20th March.
A long-standing Easterhouse campaigner, Anne McAllister says: “I’ll be standing once again for the North East ward as the candidate of the Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (Scottish TUSC). This working-class community desperately needs a fighting socialist councillor”.
“I have a long record of campaigning, from helping to successfully defeat the bedroom tax locally, to supporting workers’ picket lines at postal sorting offices and cleansing depots”.
“If elected, I would campaign for the council to set a no cuts, needs budget, utilising all financial powers and uniting with the trade unions and the community, to demand the funding lost in austerity from the Scottish and Westminster governments”.
“We need a socialist society, where no one is cold and hungry. I’ll also be fighting for the nationalisation of the energy companies and supermarkets to bring down bills”.
“Vote Scottish TUSC for a £15 an hour minimum wage and benefits that meet the cost of living”.
Trade unionist backing
Anne’s campaign has won the strong support, in a personal capacity, of Chris Sermanni, the secretary of Glasgow City Unison, the largest branch of the public sector workers’ union in Scotland.
Chris says: “I’m supporting Anne as, unlike the SNP, Labour and the Greens, she is opposed to all austerity and attacks on the working class”.
“Our city suffers growing food bank queues, long health and care waiting lists, rising homelessness, and underfunded services. Close to a billion pounds has been cut from Glasgow in the last decade with the SNP, Labour and the Greens all voting for cuts”.
“In the North East ward by-election that was held here last November Reform UK posed as anti-cuts and anti-establishment. But how would their millionaire leader Nigel Farage know anything about the struggles of working-class families?”
“All that is on offer from Reform UK, and their new councillors some of whom were Tories when the last election took place, is racist division, that lets the greedy bosses off the hook. Reform UK support private schools, more private sector involvement in the NHS, and attacking workers’ rights”.
“Anne increased the vote for Scottish TUSC in November. She is standing to voice the need for a new mass workers’ party based upon the trade unions. All socialists, trade unionists and community campaigners should support her”.
Contact Anne’s agent Matt Dobson on 07927-342-060 ■