The Trade Union and Socialist Coalition (Tusc) vowed to nationalise banks and finance corporations yesterday during the launch of its election manifesto in Canary Wharf.

Standing right “in the belly of the beast,” leading members of the party announced its main policies, as well as the names of its 135 parliamentary candidates.

This year’s campaign is the largest in Tusc’s short history, as it is mounting a challenge in one in five of all constituencies across England, Wales and Scotland.

Tusc chair and former Labour MP Dave Nellist said: “This is a rich country, the fifth richest on the planet.

“It’s just that the wealth is in the wrong hands — in the hands of a few millionaires and billionaires.

“Tusc is the only unashamedly socialist party in these elections.”

The party’s programme also promises a £10-an-hour minimum wage, along with an end to NHS privatisation, secretive trade deal TTIP, zero-hours contracts and fracking.

It’s part of a five-point pledge that calls for a “democratic socialist society run in the interests of the millions not the billionaires.”

Firefighter and Dudley North candidate Dave Pitt said: “All the Establishment parties — Labour, Tories, Lib Dems — share a huge austerity agenda.

“As a firefighter, I can see that the service in the West Midlands has been already almost hacked to the bone.

“Any more cuts will result in redundancies, so I’m standing for Tusc as it’s anti-cuts.”

Tusc, which was founded in 2010 by several socialist groups and transport union RMT, will also be contesting 650 council seats.

Student and York Central candidate Megan Ollerhead said she was standing on a Tusc ticket as “there isn’t another organisation that will stand up for students’ rights.”

She said: “As a postgrad, I’ve incurred another £10,000 on top of the cost of my first degree — and I was ‘lucky’ to only pay £3,000 a year.

“Tusc supports free education, a full living grant for all students, rent controls for private landlords and tackling big companies.”

Tusc and fellow anti-austerity party Left Unity have nine double-ticket parliamentary candidates standing in next month’s general election.