An emergency programme of house building and repair For the right to occupy empty houses Confiscate the second homes of the rich. The state treats elderly people with contempt. After a lifetime of work, they are excess baggage when they can no longer provide the capitalists with profit. Private pensions are being pushed for those that can afford them. At the same time, the relative worth of state pensions is steadily falling.
Communists say that pensioners have a right to a full life.
We say that the burden must be shifted from indirect to direct taxation. There must be no income or council tax for those on low or middle incomes. The NHS was a real gain for our class. But both Labour and the Tories have starved it of cash. We say that the service must meet the growing needs of the population, not be run according to what capitalism can afford.