TUSC candidates in the May elections

Below is the list of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidates standing in the various elections taking place on May 5th.

There are 276 candidates, comprising of 231 local council candidates contesting seats in 55 local authorities in England (plus three mayoral candidacies), 16 candidates contesting seats in nine authorities in Scotland, and 26 candidates contesting seats in five authorities in Wales. The council candidate list for England is broken down into regions.

TUSC’s core policy platform for the May 5th 2022 local elections

Vote for a socialist recovery from the Covid crisis!

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) has a policy platform for the May 2022 local elections which every candidate using the TUSC name on the ballot paper is committed to fight for in the council chamber if they are elected. These ten core policies are listed below. But this policy platform is a minimum, not a limit to the issues that TUSC candidates will be campaigning for in their communities.

TUSC is an inclusive umbrella alliance, enabling fighting trade unionists, working class community campaigners, social movement activists, and socialists in different parties or none, to stand together in elections under a common name and logo on the ballot paper, while preserving their own identities and ability to highlight any particular policies and issues that they may wish to campaign on.

TUSC candidates are there linking up with those taking action against climate change; workers in any sector fighting for a pay rise like the NHS workers campaigning for 15%; women combating street harassment; housing campaigners fighting evictions; and anti-racism activists, to name but a few.

TUSC councillors would be at the heart of any struggle that is a step towards a society in which people can enjoy life to its fullest without the fear of unemployment, homelessness, poverty and discrimination.

But there has to be a defined ‘bottom line’ before somebody can use the TUSC name and logo on the ballot paper and the core policies are that – an absolutely unequivocal commitment to resist the austerity measures that we know are coming from the pro-big business establishment politicians seeking to pass the costs of the Covid crisis onto the working class.

TUSC stands for a socialist recovery from the Covid crisis. So somebody who will not pledge that if they are elected they will go into the council chamber and vote against cuts, closures, privatisation and other austerity politics cannot be a TUSC candidate. None of the establishment parties require that from their candidates but we do.

TUSC is an inclusive umbrella, not an exclusive one, available to be used by every working class fighter prepared to stand up to the capitalist establishment politicians at the ballot box. Every trade unionist, anti-cuts campaigner, community activist and all those who want to see an alternative to austerity politicians can become a TUSC candidate. But voters should know that any councillor elected under the TUSC banner will:

• Oppose all cuts and closures to council services, jobs, pay and conditions. We reject the claim that ‘some cuts’ are necessary to our services or that the Covid crisis is a reason for attacks on working class people’s living standards.
• Support all workers’ struggles against government policies making ordinary people pay for the crisis – no to fire and rehire.
• Fight for united working class struggle against racism, sexism and all forms of oppression.
• Use councils’ powers to begin a mass building programme of eco-friendly affordable council homes to tackle the housing crisis.
• Fight for local Climate Emergency plans based on genuine democratic debate that create new employment, reduce emissions and improve air quality and the local environment, whilst protecting the jobs, pay and conditions of all workers.
• Reject council tax, rent and service charge increases for working class people to make up for cuts in central funding, support a redistributive revenue raising system to finance local council services, and demand central government restores the cuts in funding it has imposed.
• Vote against the privatisation of council jobs and services, or the transfer of existing council services to social enterprises or ‘arms-length’ management organisations which are the first steps to their privatisation.
• Use all the legal powers available to councils to oppose both the cuts and government policies which centrally impose the transfer of public services to private bodies. This includes using whatever powers councils retain to refer local NHS decisions, and to initiate referenda and organise public commissions and consultations in campaigns to defend public services.
• Refuse to co-operate with commissioners sent by central government to attempt to impose cuts on local services.
• Vote for councils to refuse to implement austerity. TUSC councillors will support councils which in the first instance use their reserves and prudential borrowing powers to avoid making cuts. But we argue that the best way to mobilise the mass campaign that is necessary to defend and improve council services is to set a budget that meets the needs of the local community and demand that government funding makes up the shortfall.

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Councils in England

Eastern

Local authority	Ward	Candidate’s name
Basildon	Laindon Park	Dave Murray
Broxbourne	Waltham Cross	Christine Thomas
Epping Forest	Waltham Abbey Honey Lane	Ian Pattison
Epping Forest	Waltham Abbey Paternoster	Bea Gardner
Harlow	Old Harlow	Paul Lenihan
Peterborough	Central	Steve Cawley
Stevenage	Bandley Hill	Barbara Clare
Stevenage	Bedwell	Steve Glennon
Stevenage	Chells	Roger Charles
Stevenage	Longmeadow	Helen Kerr
Stevenage	Old Town	Mark Kerr
Stevenage	Pin Green	Mark Pickersgill
Stevenage	Roebuck	Bryan Clare
Stevenage	Shephall	Michael Malocco
Stevenage	St Nicholas	Amber Gentleman
Stevenage	Symonds Green	Trevor Palmer
Three Rivers	South Oxhey	Richard Shattock
Watford	Holywell	Mark O’Connor
Watford	Leggatts	Derek Foster

East Midlands

Local authority	Ward	Candidate’s name
Lincoln	Carholme	Nick Parker

London

Local authority	Ward	Candidate’s name
LB Barking & Dagenham	Gascoigne	Ruth Mason
LB Barking & Dagenham	Barking Riverside	Pete Mason
LB Barking & Dagenham	Thames View	Akhter Khan
LB Camden	Kentish Town North	Farhana Manzoor
LB Camden	Kentish Town South	Hannah Power
LB Ealing	Central Greenford	Ben Goldstone
LB Ealing	East Acton	Mark Best
LB Ealing	North Acton	David Hofman
LB Ealing	North Hanwell	Tony Gill
LB Ealing	Norwood Green	Mark Benjamin
LB Ealing	Perivale	Helen Pattison
LB Ealing	Pitshanger	Lamley Amoaku-Atta
LB Ealing	South Acton	Devrim Kutlu
LB Enfield	Brimsdown	Josh Asker
LB Enfield	Bullsmoor	Ian Pattison
LB Enfield	Palmer’s Green	Nick Hadjipateras
LB Enfield	Southbury	John Dolan
LB Enfield	Whitewebbs	Mira Glavardanov
LB Hackney	Cazenove	Naomi Byron
LB Hackney	Hackney Downs	Clare Doyle
LB Hackney	Hoxton East & Shoreditch	Chris Newby
LB Hackney	Hoxton West	Rob Williams
LB Hackney	Stoke Newington	Rob Thomas
LB Hackney	Victoria	Jamie Barber
LB Hackney	Victoria	Margaret Trotter
LB Hillingdon	Eastcote	Tim Henry
LB Hillingdon	Uxbridge	Gary Harbord
LB Hillingdon	West Drayton	Carlos Barros
LB Hillingdon	Wood End	Jason Buck
LB Islington	Holloway	Omer Esen
LB Lambeth	Brixton Acre Lane	Theo Sharieff
LB Lambeth	Clapham East	Bobbie Cranney
LB Lambeth	Herne Hill & Loughborough Junction	Berkay Kartav
LB Lambeth	Stockwell & Larkhall	Steve Nally
LB Lambeth	Streatham Wells	Candido Della Rocca
LB Lewisham	Mayor	Andy Beadle
LB Lewisham	Deptford	Andy Beadle
LB Lewisham	Evelyn	Steve Rumney
LB Lewisham	New Cross Gate	Jay Coward
LB Merton	Cricket Green	Alex Forbes
LB Merton	Figge’s Marsh	April Ashley
LB Newham	Mayor	Lois Austin
LB Newham	East Ham South	Steve Hedley
LB Newham	Green Street East	Lois Austin

LB Newham	Maryland	Ferdy Lyons
LB Newham	Plaistow North	Nicola Barratt
LB Redbridge	Seven Kings	Andy Walker
LB Southwark	Borough & Bankside	Charlie Kennedy
LB Southwark	Camberwell Green	Thea Everett
LB Southwark	Rotherhithe	Bob Law
LB Southwark	Rye Lane	Beth Powell
LB Tower Hamlets	Mayor	Hugo Pierre
LB Tower Hamlets	Bethnal Green West	Sare O’Neill
LB Tower Hamlets	Weavers	Hugo Pierre
LB Waltham Forest	Cann Hall	Tim Stronge
LB Waltham Forest	Cathall	Ricardo Joseph
LB Waltham Forest	Chapel End	Ken Driscoll
LB Waltham Forest	Chapel End	Glenroy Watson
LB Waltham Forest	Endlebury	Sarah Sachs-Eldridge
LB Waltham Forest	Forest	Arshad Ahmed
LB Waltham Forest	Forest	Arnold Ssekandwa
LB Waltham Forest	Grove Green	Kevin Parslow
LB Waltham Forest	Hale End & Highams Park South	James Ivens
LB Waltham Forest	Hatch Lane & Highams Park North	Louise Cuffaro
LB Waltham Forest	High Street	Nancy Taaffe
LB Waltham Forest	High Street	Nathan Wallace
LB Waltham Forest	Higham Hill	Mike Cleverley
LB Waltham Forest	Hoe Street	Paul Bell
LB Waltham Forest	Larkswood	Lily Douglas
LB Waltham Forest	Lea Bridge	Ben Robinson
LB Waltham Forest	Leyton	Martin Reynolds
LB Waltham Forest	Leytonstone	Len Hockey
LB Waltham Forest	Leytonstone	Maira Talaia
LB Waltham Forest	Markhouse	Linda Taaffe
LB Waltham Forest	St James	Charles Edwards
LB Waltham Forest	Upper Walthamstow	Lee Hawksbee
LB Waltham Forest	William Morris	Paula Mitchell
LB Waltham Forest	Wood Street	Mary Finch
LB Wandsworth	Falconbrook	Kim Hendry
LB Wandsworth	Roehampton	Deji Olayinka

Northern

Local authority	Ward	Candidate’s name
Cumberland	Castle	Rob Heal
Cumberland	Currock	Brent Kennedy
Cumberland	Denton Holme	Grahame Higginson
Cumberland	Harraby	Ernie Percival
Gateshead	Chowdene	Marika Smith
Gateshead	Deckham	Norman Hall
Gateshead	High Fell	Elaine Brunskill
Gateshead	Ryton, Crookhill & Stella	Ros C
North Tyneside	Battle Hill	Craig Toft
North Tyneside	Chirton	Graeme Cansdale

North Tyneside	Cullercoates	John Hoare
North Tyneside	Riverside	William Jarratt
North Tyneside	Whitley Bay	Gordon Bell

North West

Local authority	Ward	Candidate’s name
Chorley	Chorley South East & Heath Charnock	Jenny Hurley
Knowsley	Northwood	Neill Dunne
Knowsley	Southdene	Les Connor
Salford	Eccles	Sally Griffiths
St Helens	Rainhill	Phil Speakman
Westmorland & Furness	Grange & Cartmel	Lilian El-Doufani
Westmorland & Furness	Kendal Highgate	Trevor Batchelor
Westmorland & Furness	Kendal Nether	Paul Casson
Westmorland & Furness	Kendal Strickland & Fell	Martin Powell-Davies

Southern

Local authority	Ward	Candidate’s name
Oxford	Barton & Sandhills	Callum Joyce
Oxford	Blackbird Leys	Agnieszka Kowalska
Oxford	Churchill	Carlin Kiggell
Oxford	Headington	Adam Powell-Davies
Oxford	Northfield Brook	James Morbin
Oxford	Rose Hill & Iffley	George Clifton
Oxford	St Clements	Stephen Brown
Portsmouth	Charles Dickens	Chris Pickett
Portsmouth	Nelson	Nick Doyle
Reading	Battle	James Bonner
Reading	Norcot	Jen Bottom
Reading	Southcote	Neil Adams
Southampton	Bargate	Graham Henry
Southampton	Bassett	Mike Marx
Southampton	Bevois	Nick Chaffey
Southampton	Bitterne	Clara Asher
Southampton	Bitterne Park	Vanessa Fileman
Southampton	Coxford	Maggie Fricker
Southampton	Freemantle	Catherine Clarke
Southampton	Harefield	Levi Wellman
Southampton	Millbrook	Donna Dee
Southampton	Peartree	Bevis Fenner
Southampton	Portswood	Tony Twine
Southampton	Redbridge	Pete Wyatt
Southampton	Shirley	Andrew Howe
Southampton	Sholing	Declan Clune
Southampton	Swaythling	Neil Kelly
Southampton	Woolston	Sue Atkins

South West

Local authority	Ward	Candidate’s name
Cheltenham	Hesters Way	Samuel Coxson
Plymouth	Compton	Nigel Buckley
Plymouth	Devonport	Lesley Duncan
Plymouth	Drake	Sam Hay
Plymouth	Efford & Lipson	Matthew Whitear
Plymouth	Ham	Andrew White
Plymouth	Moor View	Ed Notman
Plymouth	Plympton St Mary	Alan Frost
Plymouth	Southway	Ben Davy
Plymouth	St Peter & the Waterfront	Ryan Aldred
Plymouth	Stoke	Nik Brooks
Plymouth	Sutton & Mount Gould	Duncan Moore
Swindon	Covingham & Dorcan	Scott Hunter
Swindon	Lydiard & Freshbrook	Robert Pettefar

West Midlands

Local authority	Ward	Candidate’s name
Birmingham	Acocks Green	Eamonn Flynn
Birmingham	Bournbrook & Selly Park	Thomas Green
Birmingham	Castle Vale	Kris O’Sullivan
Birmingham	Erdington	Corinthia Ward
Birmingham	Gravelly Hill	Tom Patrick
Birmingham	Kingstanding	Joe Foster
Birmingham	Ladywood	Piriyasha
		Jeyanayagam
Birmingham	Longbridge & West Heath	Clive Walder
Birmingham	North Edgbaston	William Downs
Birmingham	Perry Common	Siobhan Friel
Birmingham	Pype Hayes	Bill Murray
Birmingham	Sheldon	Mark Andrews
Birmingham	South Yardley	Bob Seven
Birmingham	Stockland Green	Ted Woodley
Coventry	Cheylesmore	Judy Griffiths
Coventry	Earlsdon	Adam Harmsworth
Coventry	Henley	Aidan O’Toole
Coventry	Holbrook	Jim Hensman
Coventry	Lower Stoke	John O’Sullivan
Coventry	Radford	Dave Anderson
Coventry	Sherbourne	Jane Nellist
Coventry	St Michaels	Dave Nellist
Coventry	Upper Stoke	Terri Hersey
Coventry	Westwood	Jim Donnelly
Coventry	Woodlands	Sarah Davis
Dudley	St Thomas	Nicola Fisher
Newcastle-under-Lyme	Kidsgrove & Ravenscliffe	Rebecca Carter
Nuneaton	Camp Hill	Paul Reilly
Nuneaton	Exhall	Eileen Hunter

Nuneaton	Slough	Max McGee
Nuneaton	Wembrook	Bernadette O’Toole
Sandwell	Cradley Heath & Old Hill	Cammilla Mngaza
Sandwell	Oldbury	Richard Gingell
Sandwell	Wednesbury North	Gareth Knox
Wolverhampton	Bilston East	Hannah Davis
Wolverhampton	Oxley	Joshua Allerton
Worcester	Bedwardine	Eloise Davies
Worcester	Cathedral	Archie Harrison
Worcester	St John	Mark Davies

Yorkshire

Local authority	Ward	Candidate’s name
Barnsley	Hoyland Milton	Angela Waller
Barnsley	Rockingham	Karen Fletcher
Bradford	Bolton & Undercliffe	Tom Gibson
Hull	Drypool	Tony Smith
Hull	North Carr	James Bentley
Hull	West Carr	Joyce Marshall
Leeds	Armley	Florian Hynam
Leeds	Gipton & Harehills	Tanis Belsham-Wray
Leeds	Hyde Park & Headingley	Anthony Bracuti
Leeds	Killingbeck & Seacroft	Iain Dalton
Leeds	Little London & Woodhouse	Michael Johnson
North East Lincolnshire	Croft Baker	Julian Best
North East Lincolnshire	East Marsh	Lee Coulbeck
North East Lincolnshire	Heneage	Daryl Clifford
North East Lincolnshire	Immingham	Nathan Newton
North East Lincolnshire	Park	Dave Mitchell
North East Lincolnshire	Sidney Sussex	Mark Gee
North East Lincolnshire	South	Bill Ward
Sheffield	Broomhill & Sharrow Vale	Noah Eden
Sheffield	Crooks & Crosspool	Isabelle France
Sheffield	Darnall	Diane Spencer
Sheffield	Firth Park	Alex Brown
Sheffield	Hillsborough	Joe Hibbert
Sheffield	Gleadless Valley	Rebecca Fryer
Sheffield	Manor Castle	Alistair Tice
Sheffield	Nether Edge & Sharrow	Holly Johnston
Sheffield	Park & Arbouthorne	Jack Jeffery
Sheffield	Richmond	Simon Moulton
Sheffield	Walkley	Alex-James Helie
Sheffield	Woodhouse	Simon Jenkins
Wakefield	Wakefield East	Mick Griffiths

Councils in Scotland

As explained in the How TUSC Functions rules (see https://www.tusc.org.uk/txt/449.pdf ), TUSC supporters in Scotland organise autonomously, with their own Scottish TUSC Steering Committee that approves candidates in Scotland.

Local authority	Ward	Candidate’s name
Aberdeen	Northfield/Mastrick North	Lucas Grant
Dundee	Coldside	Wayne Scott
Dundee	Strathmartine	Maddie Jamieson
East Lothian	Tranent, Wallyford, Macmerry	Jimmy Haddow
Fife	Dunfermline North	Dave Edler
Glasgow	Dennistoun	Oisín Duncan
Glasgow	East Centre	Matt Dobson
Glasgow	Greater Pollok	Eric Stevenson
Glasgow	Langside	Ronnie Stevenson
Glasgow	Newlands/Auldburn	Jenny Robertson
Glasgow	North East	Anne McAllister
Glasgow	Pollokshields	Tom Ruddell
Highland	Inverness Central	Sean Robertson
North Ayrshire	Irvine South	Ian Kerr
Renfrewshire	Paisley North West	Jim Halfpenny
West Dunbartonshire	Dumbarton	Lynda McEwan

Councils in Wales

Local authority	Division	Candidate’s name
Caerphilly	Bedwas, Trethomas & Machen	Peter Thomas
Caerphilly	Moriah	Stephen Rees
Cardiff	Adamsdown	Katrine Williams
Cardiff	Caerau	Dave Reid
Cardiff	Canton	Taryn Tarrant-Cornish
Cardiff	Cathays	George Phillips
Cardiff	Ely	Ross Saunders
Cardiff	Gabalfa	Michael Frazier
Cardiff	Grangetown	Joe Fathallah
Cardiff	Llandaff North	Helen Perriam
Cardiff	Llanrumney	Danielle Smith
Cardiff	Pentwyn	Cath Peace
Cardiff	Plasnewydd	John Williams
Cardiff	Riverside	Lianne Francis
Cardiff	Rumney	Rhys Davies
Cardiff	Splott	Dave Bartlett
Cardiff	Trowbridge	Joanna Chojnicka
Neath Port Talbot	Blaengwrach & Glynneath West	Rhys Davies

Rhondda Cynon Taf	Graig & Pontypridd West	Mariam Kamish
Rhondda Cynon Taf	Mountain Ash West	Mia Hollsing
Swansea	Castle	Gareth Bromhall
Swansea	Castle	Owen Lees
Swansea	Llwchwr	Mark Evans
Swansea	Uplands	Oisin Mulholland
Swansea	Uplands	Evan Vaughan
Swansea	Uplands	Charlie Wells

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