A call to the Green Party leader Zack Polanski: Join the struggle against local council austerity!

We, the undersigned, call on the new Green Party leader, Zack Polanski, to ensure that in this year’s local council elections, no candidate shall appear on the ballot paper on behalf of the Greens, who has not made a public commitment to vote against all cuts and closures to council services, jobs, pay and conditions should they be elected as a councillor on May 7th.
And further, that he instructs all current Green Party councillors to make the same commitment for future council budget-making meetings, including in the 40-plus local authorities where the Greens are presently part of the council administration.
We cannot expect Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, the Lib Dems, the Tories or Reform to join the struggle to defend local public services; but we should not expect anything less from those who have spoken against the establishment’s austerity agenda.

Launch signatories:
Current and former trade union national executive signatories (all in a personal capacity):
NAPO Adam Harmsworth;
NEU Sheila Caffrey, Louise Cuffaro, Sean McCauley, Jane Nellist, Martin Powell-Davies, Linda Taaffe;
PCS Fiona Brittle, Marion Lloyd. Dave Semple;
UCU Duncan Moore, Marco Tesei;
UNISON April Ashley, Roger Bannister, Naomi Byron, Glenn Kelly, Jim McFarlane, Jean Thorpe;
UNITE Suz Muna;
USDAW Amy Murphy.