"We offer a positive vision to the people of Derry. It is based on the need more public spending, not less. The money is there. If big business and rich individuals paid their fair share in taxes, there would be no budget deficit. In the Assembly, we would be calling for support for the millions marching for justice and targeting the tax frauds – not tamely relaying the Treasury cuts.
The people at the bottom are being punished for the crimes against society perpetrated by the people at the top.
We need a new jobs strategy, centred not on lower taxes to lure private business but on creating employment through public initiative – a crash programme of social housing, investment in green industries, renewing our rail network etc.
We need a Derry University appropriate to a city of our size. This ambition is being stymied not just by the inertia and spite of the past but by the funding crisis in higher and further education in the present. The fight for a proper university has to be connected to the broader fight against the cuts.
What Stormont needs most is a vigorous, radical Opposition advancing progressive ideas. People Before Profit are the people to provide it. "
(Pictured above; People Before Profit group at lodging of nomination papers: left to right Eamonn McCann, Goretti Horgan, Abby Oliveira, Clare O’Donnell, Dermie McClenaghan, Sha Gillespie and Connor Kelly)
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