Communists want to organise the unemployed alongside the employed to present a united challenge to capitalism and its state. No to Job Seekers Allowance and New Deal. Nationalise unprofitable industries faced with closure. No slave labour 'training' schemes. For real training under workers' control Housing Homelessness and overcrowding exist side by side with empty houses and unemployed building workers.
Decent housing is a basic right.
We say there must be good quality housing for all. 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.