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1/ Pleased to announce that I'll be standing as the @The_SSP_ candidate for the Liberton and Gilmerton ward for the 2022 Scottish council elections. I'll be standing on a socialist platform: 
2/ No to cuts and no to privitisation - The Scottish Socialist Party have never and will never vote for cuts to public services - let's keep our schools, hospitals and libraries publicly funded, fit for purpose and away from the hands of private profiteering #NoCuts
3/ An independent, socialist Scotland - We need to build the case for independence on the basis of making working class people's lives better. We need socialist transformation of Scotland’s economy through a Socialist Green New Deal scottishsocialistparty.org/party-policies/
TUSC's Glasgow/West/Central Scotland meeting to organise a socialist challenge for the council elections next year is about to start. It's not too late to join in:
zoom.us/join and use Meeting ID 837 6545 2197
zoom.us/join and use Meeting ID 837 6545 2197
The purpose of the meetings is to raise the idea of standing anti-cuts candidates next year. #Nocuts. TUSC has @RMT_Scotland and @SPS_socialist aswell as leading community campaigners and trade unionists involved.
Michael Hogg regional organiser of @RMT_Scotland speaking. MH An honour to be speaking. Planet is burning- need real action 're COP26. Rail can be a major part of fighting CC. Scotrail/Rail coys/Scotgov using pandemic to undermine rail workforce. Cuts to railways
Democrats should make it clear that there will be #NoCuts to Social Security or Medicare and that, once in charge, they will amend the legislative language to to ensure that the payment of program benefits is never constrained by any earmark or trust fund balances. 1/4
It would only require a few sentences here and there to grant OASI, DI, and HI the same treatment already afforded to SMI. And then none of us would ever have to hear about trust fund “solvency” ever again. neweconomicperspectives.org/2011/04/4-trus…
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It would remove the single most potent weapon in the GOP arsenal—i.e. the illusion that the *financial ability* to pay out benefits is dependent on payroll tax receipts + trust fund balance(s). 3/4
