Non-Electoral Manifesto

Not sure which forum this should go in, but in response to the manifestos put out by the big three parties CAG are putting out a non-electoral manifesto and a general campaign against electoral participation on those grounds

We aim to base it around key areas as it should be in the form of a response to the electoral party manifestos, So it will be based on issues like housing, council tax, healthcare, public transport, the war & defense spending, education, workplace issues, anti-social behaviour, pensions etc etc

This has to be a fairly detailed in depth document, with a long analysis of whats wrong with each of the ideas proposed by capitalist parties and our response. For example in terms of housing we would give a long in depth critique of the governments approach and the restrictions it placed on councils building publkic housing also combining it with an attack on the govts falure to deal with homlessness, and families being forced into temporary accomadation, on an institutional level, then propose realistic solutions to these problems, such as how council housing can be defended and tenants organisations improved etc.

We aim to have it finished before the end of this month so that it can be publicised and distributed in april. We can get most of it done but would be grateful for any help people could offer, for example on issues like dissecting the myriad of lies and half-truths in stock transfer and pther forms of privatisation by the back door, plus any information on funding of electoral parties, motives and backhanders would also be useful.

This has to be something we can hand out in the street if need be so it needs to be pretty watertight.

Finally, if anybody else is planning on running similar campaigns and actions it'd be good if we could pool resources.

ps Some parliamentary material available...

http://www.dodsparlicom.com/vote2005/poll_manifesto.htm