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Bristol & South West Respect
Who We Are
Respect is a radical political alternative to the rightward march of New Labour and the other establishment parties. Although it grew out of the mass opposition to the war on Iraq, it is more than an anti-war party. A vote for Respect is a crucial step towards the creation of a new radical working-class voice that will speak for millions who, through the betrayals of New Labour, have lost their political representation.
New Labour has embraced the neo-liberal agenda of privatisation and deregulation. It has pushed privatisation into our core public services. The NHS, education, benefits and pensions are under sustained attack. Students are saddled with loans and tuition fees.
The gap between rich and poor is still increasing. Yet there is no lack of wealth or resources - Britain is the fourth richest country in the world.
We believe that public services should be owned and accountable to those who use them and work in them. We would bring the utilities - water, gas, electricity and communications - back into public ownership. We would re-nationalise the railways.
We would extend public ownership into the key sectors of the economy. We would increase taxation on the big corporations and the wealthy to fund public services.
We stand with those across the world suffering from global capital in its various forms. In Africa, Asia and Latin America millions face Structural Adjustment Programmes, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. They struggle for survival in economies wracked by debt, and wage militant campaigns to end this burden. We stand in solidarity with them and with those who fight to keep the planet habitable in the face of global warming and climate change driven by the market system.
We are a campaigning party. We support all those who campaign against the war and the neo-liberal agenda of privatisation and deregulation. Those who defend civil and human rights, the health and education services, housing and pensions rights, and the environment. We stand alongside those who defend trade union rights and the rights and the interests of oppressed minorities.
Join Respect! Click here to download a membership form.
For further information email Bristol Respect or call/text Bristol Respect's Convenor, Jerry Hicks, on 07817 827912.