CHARTER FOR A

RESILIENT SCOTLAND

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NATIONAL CARE SERVICE

Local authorities to establish associations to support the transfer of existing care homes from for-profit bodies to public and third sector control

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RAIL AS A PUBLIC SERVICE

End Abellio’s contract to run Scotland’s railways and bring them back into public ownership to improve timeliness, expand the rail network, protect workers’ conditions, and end profiteering from an essential public service

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CONNECT REMOTE COMMUNITIES

Use National Investment Bank funding to manufacture a new fleet of sustainable ferries at Ferguson Marine which will be operated by Caledonian MacBrayne to improve service for remote and island communities

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BUSES AS A PUBLIC SERVICE

Replicate the success of publicly-owned Lothian Buses to ensure bus links are affordable, frequent and widespread across Scotland’s urban and rural communities

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END PRIVATE PROFITEERING OF PUBLIC SERVICES

A centre of excellence to design and manage public infrastructure projects financed by the National Investment Bank to end Public-Private Partnerships and private profiteering off of public needs

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LAND VALUE TAX

Bringing unproductive land into community control, a local land value tax can ensure land is used to benefit local communities. This can break up the hoarding of land in Scotland and ensure the wealthiest in society pay their fair share

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RIGHT TO AFFORDABLE FOOD

Enshrine the right to food into Scots law so public agencies, such as local authorities, are required to take action if people do not have sufficient food of an acceptable quality

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SUPPORT DOMESTIC PRODUCERS

Form a framework to support local producers and local employment through shortened supply chains in place of imports

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RENT CONTROLS

Implement a points-based rent control system on both private and social lets to end run away rents and landlords’ exploitation of tenants, and redistribute wealth to the least financially secure

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DEMOCRATISE HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS

End the undemocratic bureaucracy of larger Housing Associations and put tenants in control of their communities by legislating for a tenants majority on executive boards supported by tenants’ unions

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STRENGTHEN TENANTS' RIGHTS

End Covid-era and Winter evictions; increase accountability and penalties for non-compliant landlords who don’t adhere to the law and ensure their properties are maintained and habitable; and promote membership of tenants’ unions

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TRANSFORM SCOTTISH HOUSES

Accelerate the green transformation of housing across Scotland and enable the sector to meet the Scottish Government’s climate change targets through a nationwide retrofitting programme

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ENERGY AS A PUBLIC SERVICE

Public ownership of energy infrastructure and sources, and the provision of affordable and environmentally friendly energy to Scotland’s homes and businesses

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GREEN NEW DEAL

Through a Just Transition we must create away from fossil fuel usage towards a net zero carbon emissions economy by 2030

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DIVERSIFICATION AGENCY

Working with supply chains to support the transition from oil & gas to green infrastructure and delivering the training to re-skill the workforce

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LOCAL WEALTH REFORM

To build up local communities we need to maintain more local wealth in local economies, creating a virtuous reinvestment cycle which will progressively strengthen those economies and shorten supply chains

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EMPOWER LOCAL COMMUNITIES

Transition to a more decentralised local tax system where local authorities are empowered to better serve their local communities and end the Tories’ unfair Council Tax

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LOCAL COMMUNITY BANK

Establish a public banking option providing all the banking services a private retail bank would offer where profits will be reinvested back into communities instead of being extracted by shareholders

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PUBLIC WORKFORCE EQUALITY

Hold public bodies accountable for advancing equality of opportunities in public sector workforces to make them proportionate and representative of BAME, disabled and women workers based on local populations by 2030

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