For the millions – not the millionaires
From workerspower.com
Voters in the Vauxhall constituency of London will get the chance to vote against capitalism in the upcoming general election.
Jeremy Drinkall from Workers Power will be standing on an anticapitalist manifesto, saying on the streets and doorsteps that ordinary people should not pay for an economic crisis caused by the rich.
Jeremy, who is a teaching assistant at a local school, plays an active role as a Unison shop steward in Lambeth. He has taken part in local efforts to protect council housing and is on the steering committee of the national Right to Work campaign which fights against unemployment.
In the postal strike before Christmas, Jeremy regularly went down to the picket lines at his local depot, Nine Elms, to show support for the workers.
Jeremy said: “Like the rest of us, many postal workers felt let down by the Labour government, who don’t lift a finger for working-class people. Because Labour has been such a disappointment, there’s a real danger that the Tories and the far-right BNP will do well in these elections. I want to show that there is an anticapitalist alternative to poverty and racism.”
Jeremy is in favour of working class action to stop job losses and cuts to our services, like health and education, which the three main parties are planning.
He aims to stand as part of the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition, which is putting up candidates in a number of constituencies across the country.
“I’m asking for local trade unionists, political supporters and campaigning groups to get behind my candidacy. Together we can show that there is an alternative to capitalism.
“I will be fighting for that alternative – socialism.”
