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A personal messagefrom Andy Chaffer

The most important issue in Birmingham generally andHodge Hill in particular is employment. Local peopleneed proper jobs that are full time and permanent.

Local employers need to be offering training placesand permanent jobs to people in Hodge Hill. Thismeans that the NHS, the bus company and railengineering – to name just a few local employers –need to work with local colleges to ensure that localpeople are trained for the vacancies that arise.

Privatisation has proved a disaster, I support therenationalisation of the rail service and welcome theHS2 plan to site its depot in the constituency.

Investing in manufacturing and infrastucture meansproper jobs with decent wages not poverty pay andzero hours contracts.

Working in the health service convinces me that weneed a fully funded NHS and I oppose any cuts in localhealth provision.

Our local councillors should stand up for workingpeople and oppose cuts to services by the localauthority. We need public services to stay publicservices and we need the jobs.

A big Communist vote will signal that people in HodgeHill want an end to privatisation and austerity cuts anddemand real jobs on decent pay.

Andy Chaffer

Election CommunicationBirmingham Hodge HillThursday 7 May 2015

Andy ChafferCommunist Party candidate

Promoted for Andy Chaffer by Brian Allbutt, 15 Chartist Road, Saltley,Birmingham B8 1QB and printed by Kall Kwik 38 Waterloo Street, BirminghamB2 5PP

Austerity is working ... for bankers and bossesH Working people and their families didn’t create thiseconomic crisis. Nor should we pay for it!

It’s a crisis of the capitalist system caused by recklessspeculation and big business profiteering.

The bank bailout cost £1.3 trillion of our money –almost 20 times the annual government deficit.

We’re paying for the bail-out with tax and VAT rises.And with cuts in public services, benefits and wages.

But corporate profits and fat cat incomes have shot upsince 2008, while wages have been frozen.

In 1998, top bosses received 45 times the average pay– now they pay themselves 185 times the average.

They make more in three months than most peopleearn in a lifetime!

Today, one in five workers earn less than the livingwage. Millions of people face benefit cuts, theBedroom Tax and unfair ‘capability’ assessments fornon-existent jobs.

The Tory-LibDem regime wants more ‘austerity’ –which means privatisation of our NHS and schools andmore anti-trade union laws to enforce low wages andzero hours contracts.

Communists say we need a left-wing government –one that puts people before profit, peace before warand democracy before the EU and NATO.

Take the power! with public ownershipH We need to vote out the Tories and LibDems onMay 7. But a Labour government should reverse thecuts, not continue them. We need public ownership ofvital services, not privatisation.

Communists say a new government must:H Tax the rich, big business and City speculators .H Plug tax avoidance loopholes and close down

British-run tax havens around the world.H Cut energy prices and take gas, electricity, water,

buses and rail back into public ownership.H Use nationalised banks to lend to home-buyers,

small businesses and productive industry.H Invest in jobs, ‘green’ technology and public services.H Return all privatised health services to the NHS. H Enforce equal pay for women and young workers.H Raise pensions and reinstate benefits and student

grants.H End privilege in education and abolish fees.H Repeal the Bedroom Tax and build a million new

public sector homes.H Scrap the Health & Social Care Act and return all

privatised health services to public ownership. H Extend democratic rights in a progressive and

federal Britain.H Scrap Trident and plans for more nuclear weapons.H Challenge NATO expansion and EU big business

policies – stand up for popular sovereignty.

A big vote for Andy Chaffer, the Communist Partycandidate in Birmingham Hodge Hill, will send a strongsignal that workers demand a new policy.

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Andy Chaffer forBirmingham Hodge Hill

H Andy Chaffer works in mentalhealth in the NHS in Birmingham.

He lives in Handsworth and is active inhis trade union Unison.

A veteran of the struggle against apartheid and againstracism Andy has a long history of solidarity work andfully supports an independent Palestine state.

A well known leader of the Communist Party in theMidlands he was active in opposition to the NewLabour and the Con Dem wars on Iraq andAfghanistan.

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