In the last few days, I have set up my new socialist
website at http://www.socialiststeve.me.uk. It is
neatly divided into the following pages, accessible
via buttons:

· Home
· News & Events
· General Election
· Steve Wallis for MP!
· Galaxia (my socialist band)
· Conspiracy Theories
· Assassinations
· Mind Control
· Infiltration
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· For Democracy in Iraq
· Freedom for Palestine
· US Electoral Fraud
· Campaign for Democracy
· Against ID Cards
· Abolish the Monarchy
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· Music
· Martine McCutcheon
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· SDML (my modelling language)
· Computer Games
· Transition (my autobiography)

I had to abandon my previous website domain name
(www.stevewallis.org) because my old web hosting
provider, hostway.co.uk, would not hand it over to my
new one, ukfast.net (the ISPA’s best hosting provider
in the UK this year, according to a survey highlighted
on its home page, run by my second cousin Lawrence
Jones). I have just set up a discussion group
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dodgy-web-hosting-providers)
that I will use to expose hostway and encourage others
to report on dodgy practices by such companies, while
recommending good companies like ukfast.

I have also set up a website for the Greater
Manchester Democratic Socialist Alliance (GMDSA) at
http://www.gmdsa.org.uk.

I have organised a meeting on Thursday the 7th of
April at 7pm at the Friends’ Meeting House, Mount
Street, behind Manchester Central Library, in order to
decide which constituencies we will stand in and pick
candidates for the general election. If Blair has
still not named the date for the general election, we
should also discuss registering a new party name and
changing our own name accordingly – see my document on
“Will Blair delay the general election to help
socialists outside New Labour!!!?” (at
http://www.socialiststeve.me.uk/blair-election-delay.htm).
I wish to stand, and I will be bringing draft copies
of my manifesto to that meeting as well as putting it
on my website, on the “Steve Wallis for MP!” page (at
http://www.socialiststeve.me.uk/mp.htm).

I am a member of Glasgow Shettleston branch of the
Scottish Socialist Party, which meets on Thursday
evenings, and anti-war meetings take place on Tuesday
evenings, so we need to meet on Mondays or Wednesdays.
Due to room availability at the Friends’ Meeting
House, Wednesdays are more convenient. I will propose
we meet weekly and have already booked a room for
Wednesday the 13th of April. If I had been elected as
a candidate the previous week, one of the tasks of
that meeting will be for the approval of my manifesto,
which people will have had six days to look at.

I have also booked the large hall provisionally for
Wednesday the 4th of May (which I will confirm if the
general election is announced for the following day).
I decided that having a public meeting, at which
voters can ask questions to our candidates, would be
best on the eve of the election to prevent the
potential problem of Royal Mail messing us around by
delivering the leaflets later than they may have
promised. This has the drawback that people cannot be
mobilised from the meeting to campaign for us, except
on election day. However, this can be overcome by
publicising meeting points to campaign from on
previous days on our manifestos.


The politics that I put forward on the launch meeting
leaflet are shown below:



Defeat Glazer – for democratic control of clubs

There have been mass demonstrations against Malcolm
Glazer’s attempts to take over Manchester United. We
support action by fans including the Independent
Manchester United Supporters Association (IMUSA) and
Shareholders United, to stop this US businessman who
has no interest in football and will wreck the club,
possibly by asset-stripping, if he is allowed to take
over.

We call for democratic control of football clubs from
below, by fans’ groups and all staff at clubs
including players at all levels, coaches and back-room
staff.

IMUSA founder Andy Walsh (who I invited for the launch
meeting) went to jail for not paying his poll tax in
the mass campaign of non-payment that defeated the tax
and brought down Margaret Thatcher. IMUSA led the
struggle that defeated Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to
take over the club via Sky TV.



Show Racism the Red Card

A Manchester branch of Show Racism the Red Card will
be established before the launch meeting of Greater
Manchester Democratic Socialist Alliance (GMDSA).
Hopefully, it will soon hold a joint meeting with
IMUSA and GMDSA, inviting United and City players, to
combat racism and fascism within the city.



End the occupation of Iraq – Beirut demo provides hope


The war on Iraq by US and British imperialism was not
about bringing democracy to Iraq; it was about control
of the massive oil resources in the Middle East. There
were massive demonstrations calling for elections in
the immediate aftermath of the war and in January
2004. The elections were delayed another year, until
after Bush’s fraudulent election victory and the
vicious assault on civilians and insurgents alike in
the city of Fallujah, guaranteeing huge tensions
between the different national and religious groupings
within Iraq.

A mass demo in Beirut on the 28th February against the
occupation by Syria brought down the Lebanese
government. Due to the ethnic tensions there in the
past, prompted by bombings by the Israeli regime, this
is a really positive move.

The prosecutions for torture by three members of the
British Army are just the tip of the iceberg. There
are currently over 164 investigations involving
British troops, involving 20 deaths of Iraqis in
British custody. Socialists should oppose the
occupation and support independent trade unions in
Iraq and the unity of working class people throughout
Iraq opposing the occupation.



For workers’ MPs on workers’ wages

The meeting will establish a Greater Manchester
Democratic Socialist Alliance (GMDSA). It is called by
people previously involved in the Socialist Alliance,
which has recently been closed down by the Socialist
Workers Party (SWP), but GMDSA won’t be organised
bureaucratically (with lots of committees) unlike when
the Socialist Alliance was led by the SWP. The word
“Democratic” is also useful to clarify that we are
fighting for a democratic socialist world, unlike the
Stalinist regimes that collapsed in the USSR and
Eastern Europe.

The meeting will decide which seats to contest during
the general election, and elect candidates.

There is a meeting tomorrow evening (Thursday 31st
March, 7pm, Friends’ Meeting House) on opposing
Glazer’s takeover of Manchester United, racism in
football and the occupation of Iraq, and on
considering standing one or more candidates in the
general election. For more information, go to
http://www.gmdsa.org.uk/meetings.htm.

I have booked the Friends’ Meeting House for the
following Thursday (7th April, 7pm) in order to decide
where we want to stand and who our candidate(s) will
be.


--
Steve Wallis (http://www.socialiststeve.me.uk).
Initiator of Greater Manchester Democratic Socialist Alliance
(http://www.gmdsa.org.uk, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gmdsa) and Revolutionary
Platform of the Democratic Socialist Alliance
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/revolutionary-platform-of-democratic-socialist-al\
liance).
Member of Glasgow Shettleston branch of the Scottish Socialist Party
(http://www.scottishsocialistparty.org), supporter of the International
Socialist Movement platform of the SSP (http://www.redflag.org.uk) and initiator
of the Revolutionary Platform of the SSP
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/revolutionary-platform-of-the-ssp).
Initiator of the Campaign for Democracy in the UK
(http://www.democracycampaign.org.uk;
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/campaign-for-democracy-in-the-uk) and Campaign for
Sanity in the NHS (http://www.health-service-sanity.org).