If you haven’t already done so, you have until April 15th to register to vote in time for the Scottish Parliament elections on May 5th. Those living in Dundee can go to the council website for more information. If you stay elsewhere you might find this site helpful.

Not planning on voting because you don’t think it’ll make a difference? Read this article which explains why it’s important you do.

SSP Public Meeting – No Cuts: Tax the Rich! at Monday 19th April, 6pm in The Pillars, 9 Crichton Street, Dundee

Speakers:

• John McAllion Former MP/MSP
• Angela Gorrie SSP Candidate for Dundee East
• Peter Murray President of Journalists’ union
• John Jamieson Civil Service Union
• Richie Venton SSP National Trade Union Organiser)

The Scottish Socialist Party condemns the obscene poverty and inequality in Scotland  - and the disgusting priorities of ALL the mainstream parties on how public funds are spent.

We are the only party demanding that the rich pay for the crisis THEY created – instead of barbaric cuts to jobs and services.

• Labour bailed out the bankers – cheered on by the SNP – to the tune of £1,300 billion. But these greedy upper-class gamblers still rake in massive profits and outrageous bonuses.
• At least £25 billion has been squandered on bloody, futile wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – for oil and empire – leading to the slaughter of over 50,000 innocent Afghan civilians and nearly 300 young soldiers recruited from the most deprived areas of Scotland, such as Dundee.
• £100 billion is to be wasted on son-of-Trident nuclear weapons
• £130 billion in taxes on the very rich and big corporations went unpaid last year.

Alongside this massive spending spree on bankers’ and billionaires’ profits, on war and slaughter, Labour, SNP, Tories and Lib Dems ALL threaten the wholesale destruction of jobs, pay, schools, public services and community facilities.

They are conducting a grisly auction of whose cuts will be the deepest. Economists warn that under 100,000 Scottish jobs are under threat – regardless of which of the big four parties become the next government.

Both Labour in Westminster and the SNP in Holyrood are planning to assault public sector jobs, wages and services. All because they want to tax the rich LESS and help big business and banks make even bigger profits.

The Scottish Socialist Party is entirely different from other parties.

• We want to make the rich pay, to bail out jobs, schools, services – not bankers’ and billionaires’ profits.
• We demand a 10% wealth tax on every millionaire – which could fund 80,000 new jobs, on £25,000 a year, for 3 years.
• We want Corporation Tax and income tax on the rich restored to the levels before Thatcher and then New Labour made this country a haven for the tax-dodging rich.
• We want the troops home NOW – and Trident scrapped.
• We fight for an independent, clean, green socialist Scotland – for people not for profit.
• Our MPs will live on a worker’s wage – not the obscene £65,737 salary others take!

Join the SSP – vote SSP – help build a clean, green, peaceful, independent socialist Scotland.

Dundee SSP have today announced Angela Gorrie, 22, as their candidate for Dundee East in
the forthcoming General Election.

Angela initially moved to the city to study at Dundee University, and now works in
customer services.

She has taken up issues from public service closures and the need to implement a free
public transport sytem to calling for the troops to be brought home from Afghanistan.
Angela is a member of the Scottish Socialist Party because she believes in People not
Profit – whether that’s fighting for public services, supporting striking works or
resisting the Government’s big business agenda.

Outside of politics, Angela is a keen musician and enjoys walking and watching football.

Here’s a list of the topics for next years branch meetings. Please let us know if you’d like to come along.

Wednesday 3 February 2010 – Politics of Protest
Wednesday 17 February 2010 – Palestine
Wednesday 3 March 2010 – IWD: A Woman’s Right to Choose
Wednesday 17 March 2010 – Danish Resistance – A Model for All?

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