The Socialist Party fights for socialist change: a democratic society run for the needs of all and not the profits of a few. We also fight, in our day-to-day campaigning, for every possible improvement for working-class people.

As capitalism dominates the globe, the struggle for genuine socialism must be international. The Socialist Party is part of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), a democratic, socialist international that organises in over 40 countries.

Our branch is active in a number of areas in Kent, especially in Medway, Folkestone, and Canterbury. Initially you should email us and we will be happy to introduce the nature of the branch and the party, the things that we do and organise, and how we operate, to you. Anyone is also welcome to drop into one of our weekly branch meetings in Gillingham.

Alternatively, you can find out more about the party, become a member, subscribe to our newspaper or support the party in other ways through the national website.

The branch now also has a library where you can borrow or donate used books. See Kent Socialist Party Library.

Youth Fight for Jobs is a nationwide campaign to defend working people from the brutal jobs massacre that is taking place throughout the country. There are now 1 million young people officially out of work and more falling victim of the government's attempts to privatize education wholesale and triple tuition fees, all as a result of this crisis of capitalism, a crisis created by the hideously rich, the fat cats, the bankers and the big businesses. But it is these people who have received billions of pounds of tax payers money. Were is the money to protect the jobs of ordinary people? Whilst the Royal Bank of Scotland received £20 billion, the workers of Woolworths didn’t receive a penny.

Eight in 10 working young people are in low paid jobs and nearly half of the UK's total unemployed are youth. Young people have felt the full brunt of the recession, and things are likely to get worse unless we organise and fight back. Young people are forced into jobs with low pay, poor conditions and no job security. These jobs are rarely unionised and are always the first to be thrown on the scrap heap when profits begin to dip.With 600,000 people leaving education in July a large percentage of them are going to be faced with unemployment and the poverty pay of job seekers allowance.

For more details see www.youthfightforjobs.com

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)

We face the biggest attack on our living standards for generations. Changes to the NHS and the welfare state, allowing private companies to run our services for profit, will remove the safety net for the poorest and most vulnerable. Their job cuts in the public sector will mean already overstretched services, will reach breaking point. Their tuition fees hike to £9000-a-year, scrapping of EMA and plans to remove the basic right of all to quality free education will see a whole generation thrown on the scrapheap. While unemployment and the cost of living is still rising, we need councillors who will refuse to implement these cuts and call on the government to make the bankers and the rich pay for their own crisis! In the media it's all about 'the three main parties', but the Tories, Lib Dems and Labour are just different wings of the same party these days.

But Labour cuts aren't any more acceptable than Con-dem cuts. Vote TUSC: The Trade Union & Socialist Coalition on May 5th, the only candidates who fight ALL cuts and offer a real ALTERNATIVE. TUSC is standing 10 candidates across the country, putting forward a fighting alternative to the man parties in the assembly elections. We say:

No to cuts in our jobs, pay, pensions and public services

No to the privatisation of the NHS – public need not private profit

Bring the banks into genuine public ownership, instead of giving huge bailouts to the cause of the crisis

For a massive job creation scheme to eliminate unemployment and lift millions out of the poverty trap of the benefi ts system

Restore the pre-Thatcher real value of pensions. Reinstate the link with average earnings

Stop council estate sell-offs and build ecofriendly, affordable public housing

Take rail back into public ownership and build an integrated, low-pollution public transport system

Good quality, free education for all, under democratic local authority control; scrap tuition fees now!

See some of the areas we are standing in here, and vote TUSC on 5 May!

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