Spotlight Manifesto Consultation.

With May elections looming and Your Party struggling to get off the starting block, I’ve been considering what what Spotlight could do to help get things back on track for the left. The first thing I know we can do is to help put together a socialist manifesto – a list of policies that the left can unite around. Having our own socialist manifesto makes it easier on Your Party proto-branches, who might be considering who they’re going to endorse for the upcoming local elections, as it allows them to select candidates who more closely align with their values.

I’ve already made a start and pooled together policy ideas from various left sources, including the All-London Delegate Assembly 12 point Manifesto, The Labour Party 2019 Manifesto, and various contributions from comrades in the Spotlight Your Party Network WhatsApp group. I’m now inviting comrades to provide feedback. Join the debate in the Spotlight Your Party Network WhatsApp group – https://chat.whatsapp.com/L4EG4xsrfJaIIGOBx2uWrt – to propose changes, expand on what we already have and/or suggest any new policy ideas we may have missed.

SPOTLIGHT MANIFESTO (FIRST DRAFT)

**This is a live consult. All updates will be high lighted in red**

Defence, Policing & Security

• We propose an immediate freeze on defence spending at current levels, pending a combined services review with the aim of moving away from a NATO aligned power projection force and instigating a self-defence force posture, redirecting funds to supporting public services (like Health, housing, education, and environment) and growth in a greener economy so we can reduce our reliance of oil & gas, which, ironically, is what most wars are fought over. Defence spending has increased by £2 billion for the 2025/26 financial year (up from £60.2 billion in 2024/25 to £62.2 billion) and is expected to increase to £73.5 billion by 2028/29. This is mostly for “investment spending” (equipment, vehicles and weapons, as opposed to day-to-day running and maintenance). This suggests a trajectory toward greater militarisation and greater reliance on the arms industry and arms trade for economic growth.
• Prevent British involvement in wars by introducing a War Powers Act to ensure that no government can bypass parliament to commit to conventional military action. Add new constitutional legislation binding all decisions on Defence, military action and foreign policy to be made in future solely through full consultation with the House of Commons. Introduce a complete arms embargo on all countries guilty of wars of aggression, other war crimes, or human rights abuses, and end all military cooperation with such countries.
• Military action should be a last resort and reserved for defensive purposes, and we should associate and cooperate with campaigns and other organisations that share these aims (e.g. CND).
• We will revoke all agreements that require the UK to host foreign military bases on UK soil and UK territories, and the UK will no longer operate British Military bases overseas, including on UK territories.
• Ditch digital surveillance – Reverse all development of ID cards and facial recognition. No to state monitoring of ordinary people, online and offline, simply for holding legitimate political views that they don’t agree with. Enact constitutional legislation to restrict all state monitoring of ordinary people for our political views, to specified categories of crime prevention, which shall be reviewed every 3 years.
• Legislate to protect free speech and our human right to peaceful protest, and to stop police abuse of powers.
• Legislate, enacting statutory guidance and an enforceable public duty setting out strict limits for spending of public money on UK Trade and Investment Defence and Security Exports to promote and sell wares from the global arms trade to purchasers including public money spent on hosting global arms fairs. Redirect investment into renewable energy and social security spending that makes us truly secure from the effects of climate change and the effects of global capitalism.
• Revise guidance for the police on Stop and Search, so that it can only be deployed when credible intelligence is verified by a senior officer above the rank of Sergeant. Set up external monitoring to check this guidance is catching a higher % of criminals, without targeting BAME people.
• Review the circumstances requiring judicial warrants. A judicial warrant in the UK is a legal document issued by a magistrate, judge, or Judicial Commissioner, authorizing law enforcement to take specific actions that would otherwise violate privacy, such as conducting arrests, searching premises, or seizing evidence.
• The UK’s Prevent strategy faces significant criticism for being disproportionately focused on Muslim communities, fostering mistrust, and infringing upon human rights. Critics argue it promotes Islamophobia, creates a “suspect community,” and is ineffective due to a lack of evidence-based indicators for radicalisation, leading to high rates of unfounded referrals. We will end the Prevent programme.
• Overhaul cybersecurity by creating a co-ordinating minister and regular reviews of cyber-readiness, and review role and remit of the National Cyber Security Centre to determine whether it should be given powers as an auditing body.
• Review structures and roles of the National Crime Agency. The primary role of the National Crime Agency (NCA) has been to lead the UK’s fight against serious and organised crime, protecting the public by targeting criminals who pose the highest risk. It operates as an intelligence-led agency, focusing on disrupting transnational, national, and regional criminal networks.
• Bring PFI prisons back in-house and no new private prisons. To avoid legal risk, enormous costs, market instability and service disruptions that would result when cancelling PFI contracts outright, we propose a managed phase out. This would entail 1) No new PFIs issued 2) renegotiate the worst contracts, 3) buy out selected contracts where savings are clear and 4) Develop skills within the public sector, manage remaining contracts, and prepare to manage taking over of assets.
• Reunify probation and guarantee a publicly run, locally accountable probation service.
• Recruit hundreds of new community lawyers, promote public legal education and build an expanded network of law centres.
• Ensure legal aid for inquests into deaths in state custody and the preparation of judicial review cases.
• Establish public inquiries into historical injustices including blacklisting and Orgreave and outstanding issues raised by communities in North of Ireland arising from its occupation by armed forces of the British state.
• Require judicial warrants for undercover operations and retain the Mitting Inquiry into undercover policing.
• Enforce a legal duty of care to protect our children online, impose fines on companies that fail on online abuse and empower the public with a Charter of Digital Rights. Review and monitor the extent to which both online and offline abuse of children and young people has been used by the mass media, political organisation, government and civil service officials to produce and communicate racialised narratives about Muslim and other groups.
• British nuclear test veterans and their families, who allege severe health issues from 1950s radiation exposure have still not been provided specific dedicated compensation. Pay a lump sum of £50,000 to each surviving British nuclear-test veteran.
• The 2016 Chilcot Inquiry found that the UK’s 2003 invasion of Iraq was not a last resort, as peaceful options were not exhausted, and was based on flawed intelligence. Led by Sir John Chilcot, the report concluded that Tony Blair overestimated his influence on US policy, planning was inadequate, and the invasion and subsequent occupation went “badly wrong,” resulting in at least 150,000 Iraqi deaths and a “humiliating” troop withdrawal. We commit to implementing every single recommendation of the Chilcot Inquiry.
• Abolish the police & replace “policing” with an array of specialised multidisciplinary services, with an emphasis on prevention of criminality similar to that found within public health, on the scientific understanding that almost all violent crime is caused by deprivation and exclusion. We propose replacing the current system with multiple specialist services that deal with different kinds of crime, divided into two discrete groups. The first is “immediate response” to deal with domestic incidents, minor theft cases etc. The second group is “long-term response” to deal with things like organised crime. The long-term response service would also be deeply interconnected with other services focused on prevention through education & recommendations to government (Re. prevention of exclusion & deprivation). While replicating some of the work of the police, it also fundamentally alters the nature of policing as a public service.

Palestine

• Zionism, as a political ideology, is incompatible with our commitment to universal human rights. We acknowledge, unequivocally, that Zionism is racism and pledge to confront it without exception. We recognises the difference between Zionism and Judaism. We recognise that not every Jew is a Zionist and not every Zionist is Jewish. We understand that Zionism is an ethnonationalist ideology that asserts the rights of one specific religious group, over others, through exclusive political domination, subjugation and occupation, of land and people, and we recognise that this is racial discrimination.
• Immediately reverse the proscription of Palestine Action, apologise for the horrendous treatment of activists who had been jailed without charge, abused while in jail and had their human rights violated, and pay them reparations.
• We will end all trade and diplomatic ties to Israel until they accept a single state solution that meets the approval of the people of Palestine. Israel is an occupation force, they occupy Palestinian land. Palestinians have a right to return to their land. In fact there’s a UN General Assembly Resolution (Resolution 194), passed on 11 December 1948, that recognises the Palestinians right of return to their homes. Article 11 of the resolution reads: “[The General Assembly] Resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible.” This simple fact – the right of return that Palestinians demand – should make it clear to anyone that they do not favour a two state solution, which has always been an unreachable and unwelcome compromise, dangled as a carrot, by the occupier (and their allies). Palestinians should never have been put in a position where they were forced to negotiate their return to their homes and homelands with their occupiers.
• We will require all government Pension funds, councils and publicly owned bodies to boycott and divest from Israeli products and Israeli owned companies and also divest from any investment funds which are themselves investing in Israeli products and companies.
• Your Party believes that it’s for Palestinians to decide what a free Palestine should look like.
• Any British citizen who has chosen to travel abroad to go fight for the IDF will be immediately detained on their return and investigated for charges under the terrorism act UK and, if found guilty of engaging in, or being complicit in, human rights abuses, terrorist activities and/or genocide, will be given lengthy custodial sentences.
• Proscription is a tool of the state to stifle political debate and crush dissent. It has also been heavily abused by the state recently, who have used it to arrest innocent protestors simply for holding placards supporting groups advocating for freedom from occupation or against illegal wars and genocide – all points that happen to be mainstream views. Furthermore, proscription is an ineffective tool and counterproductive for tackling extremism, as extremists tend to go underground and off radar when proscribed. We will legislate to remove proscription.
• Israel is a settler colonial state, like Algeria, Zimbabwe, Australia, South Africa & Northern Ireland. We believe colonialism is reprehensible and that it is time to end Israel’s subjugation, abuse, disenfranchisement, ethnic cleansing and genocide of the indigenous Palestinian people. We believe it Is time to end the occupation of Palestine. To help facilitate this process, we will withdraw our support for the Balfour Declaration and, instead, declare our support for a new declaration – one that sees Israel as an illegitimate occupation force.

Taxes & Economics

• Introduce emergency legislation to stop the flight of capital by nationalising banks
• Dismantle all British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies acting as secret tax havens. Place an obligation on the City of London and Companies House to divulge full details of all such accounts. Introduce a new Wealth Tax. Ensure all Wealth Tax bands and rates are under regular review so they adapt with changes in world prices, as well as the impact of currency speculation and capital exodus, etc
• As all land is a natural resource and all land has a locational value. Currently it’s landlords who pocket all the locational value. We will replace the existing Council tax system, which is currently based on outdated property values, and replace it with an annual tax on land values.
• Review tax and pension changes implemented by the Tory government
• Close tax loopholes enjoyed by elite private schools and ask the Social Justice Commission to advise on integrating private schools. OR Abolish private Education
• Introduce a windfall tax on oil companies
• Tax multinationals, including tech giants.
• Boycott corporate tax evaders and unscrupulous for-profit public service providers e.g. Virgin Care, Serco, G4S
• Undertake a review of the financial system to allow a reframing of how we view national and local authority public debt – Quantitative Easing for people and not just the banks – allow money creation for UK infrastructure projects.
• Restructure all taxation relating to oil & gas, placing all tax burden on a) import, b) production, and removing all tax burden from endpoints. Implement a carbon tax on production (refining) + imports commensurate with the environmental hazard, to be increased steadily in coming years to help ensure a steady shift away from the carbonised economy. Ensure initial take from the carbon tax at least matches the current tax from the preexisting fuel tax ecosystem
• We will introduce an Industry wide Automation Tax to generate revenue from developing software and future technologies.
• Restore government funding to Councils, but cease government funding to Councils on party lines – a system that undermines the fairness and efficiency of local public services, causes inequity in service provision, erosion of public trust, inequity in service provision, and increased financial instability for local authorities. Local authorities to be well funded by central government to so that they are able to provide the high quality services that we all need in our communities. Well-funded councils will provide services by being able to employ people to provide services on secure, decent, well-paid contracts so that they are valued, recognised and well-rewarded for the important work they do.
• Local authority budgeting to be solely on the basis of identifying and meeting need. This is to be achieved by exposing the lies that there is no money, there are legal constraints and that there is no other choice. Needs budget to be drawn up and implemented using reserves, prudential borrowing, diverting the hundreds of millions given to developers and so-called care providers (ending privatisation) and joining with campaigns around the country demanding the return to local government of the tens of billions drained from public services.

Public Ownership & Job Creation

• We will bring energy back under public ownership and community control (this would cost roughly £2.8 billion so we can fund this by scrapping trident which costs roughly £3 billion).
• Move to net zero by massively expanding all forms of renewable power generation and generate jobs through public ownership of utilities, transport, and key infrastructure, reinvesting profits into further expansion to create more jobs and improve services. Investment in skills, green manufacturing and green energy, like solar, wind farms and tidal energy, which will also create more well-paid jobs..
• We will end cronyism by ending outsourcing of government contracts to profiteering private companies. Instead we will bring vital production lines in-house (including PPE, drugs, medical equipment), to create jobs and keep production costs down.
• Make all bus rides free. Expropriate the bus firms, place them under workers’ control. Improve bus links to hospitals. In London, we propose to equalise drivers’ pay with tube workers’ pay.
• Take ownership of water companies and tax big corporations heavily for polluting our water ways.
• Bring construction apprentice schemes under trade union control, and nationalise the big construction monopolies under workers’ control.
• Make bursaries available to women, BAME people, care leavers, ex-armed forces personnel and people with disabilities to encourage them to take up climate apprenticeships.
• As part of the program to improve the National Health Service, we will establish a generic drug company and aim to increase pharmaceutical jobs in the UK. We will also seek to form an International Health Alliance with other publicly funded or socialised healthcare systems worldwide. That Alliance will, in collaboration, form an international generics drug supply chain which will support the IHA (and NHS), as well as boost pharmaceutical jobs in the UK. The new IHA will negotiate with pharmaceutical companies as a single purchasing body, strengthening the bargaining power of the NHS and all member health services. The Alliance will also provide a means for leverage against intransigent companies refusing to negotiate lower prices.

Workers’ Rights

• Repeal all of the anti-trade union legislation
• Move from ‘reasonable adjustments’ to ‘necessary requirements’ for disabled employees
• Reverse cuts to Access to Work and supported employment schemes. Increase uptake and increase availability without the use of punitive sanctions.
• Have policy making for support at work for disabled people led and shaped by disabled people not by government and big business leaders as in the recent Mayfield review.
• Deliver year-on-year above-inflation pay rises for public sector jobs.
• Review the operation of Employment Tribunal’s and the Advice and Conciliation Service up until these were disestablished by government. Following consultation with Employment Lawyers, rank and file trade unionists and small Employers’ organisations, devise recommendations for fresh legislation to give workers back legal redress for every category of dismissal, disciplinary action and discrimination. Enhance this compared to before, to include an additional Panel member making the assessment and decision on cases, who is a peer worker for the claimant, together with a representative of organised workers (who is not a paid official), a representative of small Employers and a Solicitor with expertise in Employment and Discrimination Law.
• We support workers’ right to education and retraining (with specific protections for single parents). We will replace punitive welfare-to-work requirements with a right to education, recognising learning as socially productive labour. We will ensure single parents can undertake full-time education or retraining without being required to abandon courses for immediate employment. We will maintain access to benefits during study and remove sanctions linked to education participation. We will provide fully funded childcare for single parents in education or in training. We will fund all essential study costs for single parents, including course materials, travel to and from the place of study, and a daily meal for those enrolled in full-time education. We will expand flexible and part-time learning options to accommodate caring responsibilities, and we will support pathways into secure, well-paid sectors through voluntary, not compulsory, guidance.

Housing

• Reuse the labour 2019 manifesto pledge of nationalising housing and ending rough sleeping. Homes that are not lived in for more than a year (to reset you must spend a month permanent residency at this house) are able to be repossessed by the government with a half reimbursement of the cost of the house.
• A large scale programme of requisition of industry and land.
• Scrap the right to buy, freeze council rents, improve tenancy rights, stopping social housing providers from selling properties on the open market and build more council housing.
• Outlaw unfair evictions
• Expand the direct labour organisation (Council-run construction and maintenance department) and build more council housing.
• Increase housebuilding to an annual rate of at least 150,000 council and social homes per year by the end of the parliament.
• Review commissioning of adequate supported housing provision for disabled people, domestic abuse victims and mental health under a new supported housing regulator and register
• New minimum accessibility standards for new builds and public buildings – legal requirements of accessibility to public buildings and incentives for private sector
• Undertake a full review of building safety regulations, commission an overhaul of all publicly owned properties to ensure they meet safety standards and legislate to ensure all private landlords also make the required changes to bring their properties up to the latest safety standards.

Health & Welfare

• Return to full public ownership of the NHS and bring GP, Dental and Opthalmic services and the care sector under the same umbrella.
• We will phase out PFI contracts. To avoid legal risk, enormous costs, market instability and service disruptions that would result when cancelling PFI contracts outright, we propose a managed phase out. This would entail 1) No new PFIs issued 2) renegotiate the worst contracts, 3) buy out selected contracts where savings are clear and 4) Develop skills within the public sector, manage remaining contracts, and prepare to manage taking over of assets.
• Carer’s allowance should not end when a parent or carer reaches retirement age
• Make accessibility and inclusivity for disabled people a legal requirement for larger companies and support smaller businesses to make changes through a government funded initiative
• Commit to infrastructure improvements and legislation to make our public spaces more accessible for the disabled: toilets, no pavement parking, reducing sensory overload within public environments etc
• No more car-parking charges in hospitals (for both patients and staff) and, where needed, invest in expanding parking facilities.
• As well as providing free bus services with improved links to hospitals, we will provide additional support for people who are not able bodied and are therefore unable to use the bus service. We propose offering a subsidised Taxi service that can collect patients from home, drop them at the hospital entrance and then collect them from the entrance and return them back home. This would be an alternative to the traditional  inhouse service that would require investment in a fleet of vehicles that need to be maintained and insured, and replaced every few years (plus the added cost of hiring drivers). Also, with an inhouse service there’s the question of availability and having to pre-book whereas, with a taxi, you can call them up the same day (no pre-booking required).
• Get rid of Universal Credit and let’s have a proper review of the benefits system so we can prioritise a person’s need over cost cutting measures.
• The Work Capability Assessment should be abolished and we should go back to GP and hospital consultants’ assessment of illness and disability.
• Introduce ‘Right to food’, a publicly funded food system, grounded in living wages and social security, and democratic food governance, that ensures universal free school meals, free nutritious foods delivered to elderly, fair pay for community food workers, open access to emergency food, and community control over food environments and public land so that food justice, based on care, replaces reliance on charity and multinational food corporates who make our communities sick.
• Make women’s sanitary products free.
• Free abortion and contraception on demand.
• Commit to free gender-affirming healthcare.
• Increased funding for mental health services. Improve access to, and significantly reduce waiting times for, mental health diagnostic capabilities and service provisions, across the UK.
• Overhaul of the pharmaceutical sector to lower costs, establish a state-owned generic drugs company to manufacturer to produce generic, affordable versions of essential, high-cost medicines and the use of Crown Use licensing to override patents on high-priced medicines and allow the production of cheaper generic alternatives if companies refuse to set fair prices.
• Abolishing all prescription charges in England
• Roll out pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication to prevent HIV
• Resisting patent extensions and changing the incentives to ensure public research funding benefits public health rather than just private profit.
• Create a National Care Service and completion of a full review and recommendations for long-term sustainable funding of the care sector. This should be led by workers, service users and their relatives / carers to improve the outcomes of meeting individual support needs, independent living, community integration and equality of rights and opportunity for disabled and elderly people and based on the social model of disability not purely medical and health based
• Set up a task forces led by disabled people and minorities themselves to address health inequalities between the general population and these groups
• Reverse the discriminatory earned settlement proceedings and access to essential benefits being linked to immigration status
• More safe legal routes to claim asylum – abolish the harmful and ineffective ‘one in one out’ policy – reverse the expansion of harsh detention conditions and increased sanctions to asylum seekers – allow them support to work and live on a living wage. 
• Negotiate a controlled disengagement from Palantir and similar, intrusive, software applications that have been introduced to the NHS but have failed to reach significant take up, due to trust issue.
• We will introduce a Universal Basic Income, and Universal Basic Services
• We will support community growing projects across the country by creating allotments on brown belt land, providing seeds and access to gardening tools. We will also set up a mentoring programme so  that communities can learn how to grow more of their own fresh fruit and vegetables, as well as spend more time outdoors and be more physically active.
• We support statutory menstrual and reproductive health leave. We recognise the impact of menstrual and reproductive health conditions, such as endometriosis, adenomyosis, and PMDD on an individuals’ ability to work, and we will legislate to ensure those affected are supported to remain in employment without penalty. We will develop a policy in consultation with people directly affected, workers, and relevant organisations such as Endometriosis UK, IAPMD UK and trade unions, to ensure our plan will be shaped by lived experience whilst also delivering as a universal public right. Any employee who provides appropriate medical certification should be able to access leave without unnecessary barriers with guaranteed full pay. Leave granted under such conditions will not count towards sickness absence, or offer grounds for disciplinary procedures, and employers will be required to provide reasonable adjustments, including flexible working where possible. We will also support improved access to diagnosis and treatment through investment in NHS services.

Education & Child Welfare

• Education for life, abolish tuition fees and reinstate grants.
• Instead of closing schools and sacking staff, cut class sizes and raise school budgets, especially for SEND and SEMH provision. Then place them under the control of educators, parents and students.
• Bring Academies back under local authority – and working class – control.
• Rebuild Youth Clubs and bring them up to date with creative and recreational technology, under the supervision of young people.
• To break the hold of criminal gangs over young people and stop police harassment of youth, legalise drugs under a state monopoly, and deliver healthcare and enhanced mental health support and guidance to vulnerable young people.
• Introduce legislation to require social media companies to implement changes and added protections for vulnerable children, like removing algorithms that feed them unsavoury content, clamping down on abusive and misogynistic content creators and introducing algorithms that could actually help identify potential groomers.
• Undertake a review of education system to include and support neurodiversity at all levels – in addition to ‘special budgets and special needs’ – to improve inclusion and accessibility.
• Review of curriculum and activities in schools to positively promote rights and inclusion for all groups.
• Implement recommendations of the Survivors Trust’s National Inquiry into Childhood Sexual Abuse without delay.

Government restructure

• Clean up politics and make all forms of lobbying and second jobs for MP’s illegal (unless it’s a professional job that they had before they became an MP, such as a medical or teaching professional, for example).
• Get rid of the House of Lords and replace it with…
  a) Another elected chamber,
  b) A sortitioned second chamber
  c) An appointed apolitical scrutiny panel of professionals who are experts in their respective fields (medical, care work, scientific, construction, agricultural, industry, education, transport etc), who can check over any bills or amendments for flaws or contradictions.
• Abolish the Monarchy, the Privy Council, Star Chamber, honours system (Order of the Garter) etc and all feudal relics which retain influence over the lives of working class people. This includes a system of land tenure which essentially dates back to 1066.
• Your Party will work towards the dissolution of the current undemocratic parliamentary system of government which represents a veil, behind which a tiny elite own the nation’s wealth and use it to entrench their power. It will be replaced by a grassroots system of democracy in which working class people own the wealth of the country and decide how that wealth is distributed to meet need.

Local Councils

• Introduce ‘No – Cuts’ People’s Budgets, based on real needs arising from popular assemblies and meetings with unions, tenants and community organisations.
• Boycott and Divest from any companies tied to countries engaged in human rights abuses, or theft of land and/or resources, or occupation, or genocide, or apartheid.
• No job cuts or downgrading – real pay rises and a 4-day week. We need more council jobs and decent pay to deliver better services and cut unemployment.
• To help reduce pollution, and potentially make our cities carbon negative, we need to expand parks, allotments & wild areas, introduce more pedestrianisation, boost recycling services and introduce/retain congestion charges. We should also introduce municipal car, bike and scooter hire schemes and improve infrastructure for cyclists to encourage more people to cycle, such as building more bicycle lock-ups in neighbourhoods (most people don’t have garages so storing a bicycle is a barrier), and take over water companies so that they can be brought under workers’ and consumers’ control.
• Introduce free council childcare, canteen and laundry facilities for all.
• Create cross-disciplinary anti-austerity research and resources group on the concept of preventative support – to create evidence on how spending more money on early intervention and prevention reduces future costs across all public services
• Create and establish a mechanism that allows people to hold their local authority to account for failures in implementation of legislation, without the need for a judicial review.

Fighting fascism, racism, misogyny, abuse and systemic injustice

• Demand full equality for all!
• Introduce anti-racist education in workplaces, estates, schools and colleges.
• Sack or evict those who persist in racist abuse or attacks.
• Support Black, Jewish, Muslim and ethnic minority self-defence – and stewarding of anti-racist events.
• Block immigration raids and deportations.
• Defend migrants, black and Asian people, LGBT people and women against illegal harassment and attacks from far-right gangs and the state.
• Assert our lawful rights to march and meet by convening and training an organisation of stewards dedicated to our legal, digital and physical defence, as well as rapid response networks.
• Legislate for stronger action against people who attack, and institutions who punish, the LGBT+ community.
• Overturn the Supreme Court ruling – Trans women are women. Respect the right to self-identity and for people to use the public facilities that align with their gender identity.
• Introduce legislation to update the current laws around gender identity, that will respect the right to self-identify
• All councils should be required to run local facilities with Trans inclusive policies.
• Introduce equal pay for work of equal value.
• Better police training on domestic abuse, offences arising from coercive control and historical abuses
• Sack misogynist and racist police officers and staff.
• Disbar misogynist and racist legal professionals.
• Set up and support a national movement of working-class women to challenge misogyny online, at work, and in the home.
• Boost funds to refuge and protection services for all victims of abuse.
• Respect the recent UN resolution and offer a formal apology for the trans-atlantic slave trade as well as other crimes during the colonial period and work towards reparatory justice, which should include the return of stolen goods.
• Ensure that black and Asian soldiers who fought in Britain’s colonial armies receive a full apology and look at ways to compensate them for the discriminatory demob payments they received compared to their white counterparts.
• Implement Isabelles Law to establish a National Police Misconduct Body and a public misconduct register.
• Provide support services and create facilities for victims failed by police, as a result of breaches of the Victims Code, to enable them to seek reparations for damages in law.
• Improve accessibility to the court system for refugees, the disabled, migrants and for minoritised victims. We should be commissioning and funding more ‘by and for’ services and increasing provisions for children and families, and those with no recourse to public funds
• There should be a legal requirement that provides access to Individual Sexual Violence Advocates, and Independent Domestic Violence Advocates, and therapeutic support, within an appropriate time frame, and for police to have minimum training standards on trauma and on the complex needs of these groups.
• Bring in full decriminalisation of sex work – accompanied by stronger protections and support for trafficking and abuse victims in support services. Provide victims with access to benefits and healthcare and police liaison.
• Set up a task force, led by those with direct experience of working with victims, to research and address reasons why people enter the sex industry in order to better advocate for changes to policies on poverty and inequality. They can then request the support required to create resources and support groups (led by the above) to support those wishing to retrain or exit (as done by National Ugly Mugs).
• Set up a firewall to prevent the sharing of details (of sex workers and migrant workers) with immigration enforcement, and other authorities, when victims seek healthcare and social support.
• Appoint a Commissioner for Violence against Women and Girls, establish an independent review into shamefully low rape prosecution rates, establish a National Refuge Fund, ensure financial stability for rape crisis centres, reintroduce a Domestic Abuse Bill, improve the safety of the family court system for domestic violence victims and prohibit their cross-examination by their abuser.

Foreign Policy

• We oppose Imperialism because we understand that it is the process of military conquest, pacification, the establishment of mechanisms of rule, and of the maintenance & administration of rule, the expropriation and exploitation of the people and resources of the territories conquered, and the means used to secure, maintain, and deepen that rule. This was the broad pattern of European colonialism, but is also largely true of neocoloniaism, both of which are phases in Imperialism. Imperialism is also the midwife of racism, including Zionism & Islamaphobia.
• We oppose all so-called Development Aid, Structural Adjustment Programmes, International Institutions like the IMF, the expropriatory practices of transnational companies in the global south and the flow of Western funds and weaponry to warlords operating in conflict zones. Re recognise that Overseas Development Aid is a euphemism, in that aid is meant to and does benefit the state that provides it; the state receiving the aid usually gets it in kind rather than in ways which give it any discretion as to how to use it to benefit the people in whose name it is claimed to be given.
• We will disestablish all Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories.
• We actively oppose all settler colonialist states, not just Israel, because they are all based on the ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples, racist segregation, repression and racialised vilification of them. We therefore support all organised attempts by the oppressed and marginalised peoples to fight back against such states, such as those of Hamas, the Kurdish paramilitaries, the ‘Latinos’ of the US, the migrants of western Europe, the Zapatistas of Chiapas in Mexico, the indigenous movements of Amazonian and other peoples, such as the Uygars, the Sami and the native Irish.
• We actively oppose the spread of reactionary ideas in the global south by US-based & funded Evangelical Christian groups, resulting in the increased repression, harassment and murder of LGBTQ+ people, a brake on the struggle of women and girls in the global south for civil and legal equality and full access to education.
• We actively support campaigns for reparations by colonised peoples, in part-compensation for their mass enslavement, ethnic cleansing, the expropriation of their resources and for the ecological damage caused by Imperialism.
• We actively oppose all military invasions, coups and attempts at “regime change” by rich, imperialist countries in the global south. We will support states in the global south, however locally repressive they may be, that fight back, economically or militarily against Imperialist aggression, provided the people of these states share and own this decision to fight back. This is why we support the fightback against the current Imperialist aggression inVenezuela, Cuba, Greenland, Iran, Lebanon, Syria and territories held by the Kurdish people.
• In line with our international commitments, we seek to share our resources, (economic, educational and medical ) with those nations requiring our assistance. In solidarity with the international community, we seek to strengthen humanitarian efforts against poverty, disease, natural disasters and the devastating effects of climate change. We are committed to scientific advancements that benefit all humanity such as better food production /distribution and access to water purification processes and free availability of medicine (at cost) to combat those diseases that disproportionately affect the poorest in our society. We propose to allocate a minimum of 1% GDP annually in foreign aid to those nations that would most benefit from this assistance.

Support for Farming, Fishing, Rural and Coastal Communities

• We will set up a government body, The FFRC Communities Dept., with the remit of tackling the problems that uniquely affect the farming, fishing, rural and coastal communities.
• To tackle supermarket price fixing, one of the responsibilities of the FFRC will be to intervene on behalf of farming communities to set minimum market prices for farming produce. This will ease some of the pressure on farmers by setting a reliable bottom line and making it easier to plan ahead.
• The FFRC dept. will also help manage temp-labour resources by setting up a system to register people looking for temporary labouring jobs in farming and fishing communities (students looking for work during the holidays, European migrant farm workers for example) and introduce a fast track visa type system so farmers have fast and easy access to a seasonal labour force when they need it.
• We will also support other devolved governments to help them set up similar schemes if they choose to.

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