Following on from our successful initial meetings in July and October, at which there was a consensus to move forward with a local electoral project, we will be meeting again on Monday November the 2nd. A room in the Friends Meeting House (Jesus Lane) has been booked from 7.30pm - 9.00pm. The items we agreed to discuss are a manifesto, a constitution and a name. A draft document has been produced tofor the meeting. If you would like a copy or want to submit other documents then please contact us.

Please invite other people to the meeting who you feel would be sympathetic to the project. If you can't make it to the meeting then let me know and I will make sure that notes of the meeting are sent to you.

Please watch this video and then come to the stop the war meeting and Demo (see below)



Thursday 15th October, 7.30pm
Cambridge Stop the War Public Meeting
Afghanistan – Troops Home
Keynes Hall (enter via Kings Lane)
Speakers:
Adrian Clarke – Falkland’s veteran and Fire Brigades Union Regional Secretary
Daud Abdullah – Muslim Council of Britain
Andrew Burgin – Stop the War

Saturday 24th October
Stop the War Demo
TROOPS HOME FROM AFGHANISTAN
London
Coaches from Cambridge £3/£7/£10
Call: 07841657222

Following on from our successful initial meeting last July we agreed to meet again on Tuesday October 6th. A room in the Friends Meeting House (Jesus Lane) has been booked from 7.30pm - 9.00pm. The items we need to discuss are:

Are we agreed that a united left alternative in the up and coming general election and the local elections in Cambridge is a good project for us?;
What would be the programme such a united left would stand on?;
Are there any other initiatives we could jointly work on?

Please invite other people to the meeting who you feel would be sympathetic to the project. If you can't make it to the meeting then let me know and I will make sure that notes of the meeting are sent to you.

Protest at Labour Party Conference in Brighton
SUNDAY 27th SEPTEMBER for:
JOBS,PEACE & EDUCATION

Cambridge TUC Coach leaves Queens Road (The Backs) at 8.30am – return journey leaves Brighton at 5.30pm

Tickets Cost £2 Unwaged/£5Waged/£10 Solidarity (get your group or union to sponsor seats) Contact: woodcocktom@hotmail.com

the result is in! We stood under the slogan 'make the bankers pay – defend jobs, public services and the environment'. Our result shows that where we put up a left fight we can win support. We need to build an alternative all over the country in order to build the resistance and challenge the major parties and the fascist BNP.

Kilian Bourke (Lib Dem) 34.4% 829
Chris Freeman (Labour) 20.46% 493
Tom Woodcock (Independent) 17.63 % 425
Phil Richards (Green) 12.32% 297
Sam Barker (Conservative) 11.2% 270
Marjorie Barr ((UKIP) 3.98% 96

Tom - supporting Postal Workers fighting to defend Royal Mail – the other Parties are keen to sell it!

The three main parties have supported privatisation with disastrous effects. Tom thinks our services should be owned and run for the benefit of all of us – not for the profits of selfish bankers and billionaires.

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Dear Romsey Resident,

Like many of you, I am angry about MPs’ expenses. We struggle to pay household bills whilst they claim on a second home. We pay to use ‘public’ swimming pools and transport but fund some MPs to have their own.

But the real hypocrisy is that all three political parties have told us there is not enough to pay decent wages, guarantee pensions or build high quality public housing. At the same time they have secured these things for themselves and their friends.

Gordon Brown spent £1.5 trillion bailing out the banks’ ‘toxic debt’ – ‘money’ created through ‘complex techniques’. We were already paying this in mortgages, pensions and loans - now they want us to pay again in future taxes!

If the bailout money was spent on local communities it would mean £150 million for each council ward – imagine what that could provide in Romsey! Just 1/50th of the money would double the state pensions for all.

All three parties supported the bail out – creative accounting underpins their economics. The money should be spent on pensions, jobs, public services and key environmental issues. Taxes should be spent directly on services and amenities.

So why have multinationals been allowed to run local buses for vast profits whilst cutting routes and raising fares? Why are local councillors encouraging private firms to profit from healthcare, sheltered housing and other services in Romsey and Cambridgeshire.

Now the Tories, Lib Dems and New Labour want to privatise Royal Mail allowing ‘investors’ to put prices up, cut ‘unprofitable’ services and push down our wages.

We should fight for a society run on the basis of NEED NOT GREED.

Help bring about in Romsey by giving me you vote in the
County Council elections on the 4th June.

Yours
Tom Woodcock
Independent Candidate
07712893552 / woodcocktom@hotmail.com

We demonstrated outside the Ford showroom in Cambridge last week to help keep up the pressure on the motor giants , who have treated Visteon workers so badly!

We now have something to celebrate as Visteon workers have won a major victory against one of the biggest and most powerful multinational companies in the world – Ford.

The workers used to be employed by Ford until 2000 and were sacked at the end of last month. Ford tried to avoid its responsibilities, claiming that it owed the workers nothing.

But workers’ action has forced Ford to offer hundreds of thousands of pounds in redundancy packages. Many workers will get £40,000 or more. It is one of the biggest payouts that Ford has ever offered.

Unite union reps are recommending that workers accept the offer. They are due to vote on it later today.

Levent Adnan worked at the Enfield site for over 17 years. “This is a massive result for us,” he told Socialist Worker. “We’ve managed to beat a massive corporation. Ford and Visteon have had their fingers burnt.

“The threat of taking action to Ford was the turning point. This offer sets a new benchmark too – if Ford try to sack workers elsewhere they won’t be able to just do it and give people nothing.

“People can see now that if you put up a strong enough fight you can win. This is a victory for workers and it’s about time we won something.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIBKwRHvkV8

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