Matt Follett said: "This is probably the most radical manifesto of any in this election. Inequality has increased under this Government, and we make no apologies for our commitment to a more progressive taxation system. We can raise an additional £15 billion per year for better schools, hospitals and transport by setting a rate of 50% on earnings over £50,000 a year and 60% on earnings over £100,000."

Geoff Forse said: "Climate change is currently the gravest threat to our environment and our economic security. Dealing with it requires a radical programme of both large-scale reduction in energy demand and investment in renewable energy – a programme that is easily affordable by the UK. The long-term goal, as recommended by top scientists, is to cut UK carbon dioxide emissions by 90% by 2050."

Matt Follett added: "This manifesto gives the lie to those that try to portray us as a one-issue party. It covers all policy areas in an integrated way that flows from our basic principles of peace, justice, democracy and sustainability."

MAIN POINTS IN MORE DETAIL

ECONOMICS

• Use the tax system to reduce material inequality by increasing tax rates on incomes above £50,000
• Replace VAT with eco-taxes
• Promote economic localisation, supporting local farmers and manufacturers

• Cut UK carbon dioxide emissions by 20% by 2010, as a first step towards a 90% reduction by 2050.
• Increase energy from renewable sources to 40% by 2020
• Close the nuclear fuel programme

• Introduce a Citizen's Income for all, raising the incomes of the poorest households, and phasing out means-tested benefits
• Implement a Citizen's Pension that restores the link between pensions and average earnings

• End creeping privatisation and restore the NHS to its founding principles
• Phase out NHS charges and make provision for alternative treatments
• Increase funding to at least the pre-2004 EU average (£90 billion by 2008)

• Scrap tuition fees and restore student maintenance grants
• Abolish SATs

• Reduce dependency on the car by improving public transport and reducing transport demand
• Return rail and tube networks to public ownership
• Take action to reduce air transport growth

• Introduce a Zero Waste strategy
• Cut pollution levels
• End patents on natural resources

• End live animal exports from the UK
• Ban production and sale of eggs produced from battery cages (including ‘enriched’ cages)
• Ban all imports of fur products

• Introduce an Organics Target Bill, setting an organics production target of 30% by 2012
• Replace the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and Common Fisheries Policy (CFP)
• Ban genetically modified food
• Help farmers by taking action against anti-competitive supermarket behaviour

• Support and increase community policing
• Implement tough new legislation on gun crime
• Promote human rights and tackle hate crimes

• Oppose national ID cards
• Introduce proportional representation for national and local government
• Establish elections for the House of Lords
• Campaign for 'No' on the proposed EU constitution

• Decommission the UK's nuclear weapons and work for arms reduction
• Increase the overseas aid budget to 1% of the UK's Gross National Investment (GNI)
• Cancel the UK's debt for the 52 poorest countries
• Reform the World Trade Organisation or replace it with a General Agreement on Sustainable Trade