There are many organisations fighting the government's racist immigration and asylum laws, and many of them also have useful links.

Among them are

In launching the Socialist Alliance campaign for Oxford East, newly-selected PPC John Lister summed up the priorities as "Privatisation, privatisation and privatisation".

 The continuing crisis of privatised rail and public transport services, the planned privatisation Air Traffic Control, and the growing privatisation of new hospital building programmes through the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) can all be directly laid at the door of Oxford East MP and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Andrew Smith.

 In Oxford, a PFI-funded hospital scheme is under way at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, while details are still awaited of the massive "Headington plan" for the removal of services from the old Radcliffe Infirmary to a new build closer to the Churchill and John Radcliffe sites. The plan, originally costed at £71m, is likely to cost far more over the next 30 years as a result of PFI financing, and this extra cost will squeeze other health services in the area, already working at full stretch.

 New Labour has also privatised more council houses across the country in three years than the Tories did in 18, and the failure build any significant number of affordable, publicly-financed housing is contributing to a major housing crisis for working families in Oxford and the South East. With property prices soaring, vital public sector workers are finding their salaries will not allow them to live in Oxford.

Government spending limits, and New Labour's ideological conviction that private provision is superior to public services are also behind controversial plans to sell off Oxfordshire's elderly care residential homes.

The Socialist Alliance is opposed to privatisation in all its forms, and actively committed to campaigning to keep public services under public ownership and control.

Also central to our campaign will be the fight to scrap tuition fees and restore grants for university students; and the battle for a big rise in the state pension, coupled with the restoration of the link between pensions and average earnings which was scrapped by Thatcher, but which New Labour has refused to reinstate.

 In a wealthy country like Britain, there is no question that our policies to restore pensions, improve state benefits and invest heavily in the welfare state could be afforded. Labour's refusal to tax big business and the rich has widened the gap between rich and poor since 1997, we say tax the rich, tax the bosses: Labour should look after people, not profits.

But while we campaign on these issues, the Socialist Alliance will not forget the battle against racism – and especially against the institutional racism of government policy towards refugees and asylum seekers. New Labour's record on jailing, harassing and deporting refugees has been even worse than the Tories, and in Oxford the campaign to close the notorious Campsfield detention centre has become a central feature of national and international campaigns.