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General Election 2010
Campaigning for the general & local elections is now taking place in Coventry! If you want to come out canvassing, can deliver leaflets in your area or at your workplace
or can help the election campaign in any way no matter how small please ring 07906468797
Dave Nellist Launches the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
 Dave Nellist on the campaign stall against rip-off hospital
parking charges at Walsgrave - 23 January 2010
An independent socialist voice for Coventry Noth East
Dave Nellist - The best fighter money can't buy!
No to MPs' Sleaze - Support a Workers' MP on a Worker's Wage
 Can you help the campaign in Coventry North East?Could you display a poster?
Could you deliver leaflets in your area?
Could you come out canvassing with us?
If you can help the campaign in any way phone or text us on 07906468797
or email us coventrysocialists@googlemail.com
This leaflet has already been delivered to over 42,000 houses in Coventry North East but that is just the start - get in touch and help the campaign!
Dave Nellist was a Coventry MP from 1983-92. In those 9 years he took only a worker's wage. The surplus was donated to causes which benefited ordinary people and Dave published regular reports posted to hundreds of local people detailing where the donations went.
What a difference to the bunch of careerist politicians we have in Parliament now!
Make sure you support
a real Workers' MP on a Worker's Wage
 2010 General Election Appeal
Help give a socialist answer to cuts and privatisation
The Socialist Party has launched a financial appeal to enable it to stand candidates in the next general election and put forward an alternative to the programme of massive job cuts in public services and privatisation being promised by Labour, Tories and the Lib Dems. The main parties are all determined to make working-class people pay twice over for this economic crisis, having already bailed out the banks with £1.2 trillion of our money. The Socialist Party is in talks with leading members of the RMT transport workers' union and other organisations to discuss standing candidates as part of a wider electoral coalition that puts forward the interests of working class and young people. Such a coalition could act as a step towards the formation of a mass workers' party in the future.
Local elections
There are also local elections in 2010. Four Socialist Party councillors will be standing for re-election in Lewisham in London, Kirklees in Yorkshire and Coventry in the West Midlands. Socialist Party members and supporters need to be able to effectively campaign to defend these positions. High costs
Socialist ideasYour donations, whether it is £10 or more from a school student or £500 from a skilled full-time worker, will be vital for standing in the elections. Such contributions will enable the Socialist Party to promote its ideas to as wide an audience as possible, and discuss with workers and young people about the need to get organised, join the Socialist Party and build a socialist alternative. Please send any donations to General Election Appeal, PO Box 24697, London, E11 1YD
To see a copy of the 'Coalition to Stand General Election Candidates' leaflet click here
£2.7 million Hospital Parking Robbery!
That's how much profit was taken from hospital visitors and workers at Walsgrave last year.
That's the cost of private firms being let into our NHS.
The private finance initiative (PFI) really means Profits From Illness!
 Some important points to remember come the General Election:
 Dave Nellist and Coventry Socialist Party have been out campaigning against the car parking charges at Walsgrave hospital and held public meetings in the city in 2009. Dave has also launched a petition against private firms making obscene profits from visitors and workers at the hospital.
If you want to help the campaign you can download and print out copies of our leaflet and petition (see links below). Please distribute them to friends, family and workmates.
To view/download a copy of the Stop Hospital Parking Charges leaflet click here
To view/download a copy of the Stop Hospital Parking Charges petition click here
Pictured above Coventry Socialists out campaigning against hospital parking charges in January 2010
Please return all petitions to Councillor Dave Nellist, Council House, Earl Street, Coventry, CV1 5RR
To join the 'Stop the £2.7 Million Parking Robbery at Walsgrave Hospital' group on Facebook click here
If you agree with our ideas please consider making a donation to help fund our campaigning work.
We have no rich backers and all our money comes from donations from ordinary working class people.
To make a donation click here
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It will cost at least £2,000 per candidate in the general election, to pay for the deposit, for the election address to be delivered to every household, and to print and distribute posters and leaflets. This means that if, for example, Socialist Party members contested 25 seats a minimum of £50,000 would be needed to fund this. Therefore the Socialist Party is asking every member and supporter to pledge a donation to the election appeal, which can be redeemed by 30 April 2010. Socialist Party members have previously donated the equivalent of one week's income to help fund election campaigns, paid over three or four months, and it is that spirit of sacrifice that we appeal to now. It is understood that donations on this scale may be difficult for many people, but the Socialist Party has no rich backers and it can only rely on the party's members and supporters to finance this campaign.