Workers' Liberty

by John Leach

In Spring next year, we get to vote for our Councillors. Hackney Solidarity will stand in this election, giving people the chance to vote for socialist candidates who support Hackney working-class interests.

We should be entitled to vote for the things we want:

• good services, not cuts and privatisation;

• improved council housing, not neglected estates;
• better, more accountable local schools, not private sponsors;
• democratic accountabliity, not ‘arms-length’ quangos.

Working-class people need a political voice against the vested interests of big business, the rich - and Hackney Council.

In the past, we might have got this representation by voting Labour. But not now, not for Hackney Council.
We should judge them on their record. Hackney Labour has cut services, closed nurseries, schools and other facilities, attacked the Council workforce, and sucked up to big business.

The LibDems and Tories have always been parties that represent business and the wealthy. They are no kind of alternative.

We need socialist Councillors who represent the working class and all the community instead of joining the gravy train of expenses and patronage.