maybe if i can persuade any solfed members to come down from west yorks, there could be a decent anarcho presence, which would be better than the march being dominated by trotskyist robots
solidarity and that
hm85
west yorks solfed
NHS: South Yorkshire Demo - March 3rd
Pretty good turn out.
You can just about make out me and my anarchist flag in the final picture.
Um ... AMICUS flags (the majority of red ones), SWP flags, RESPECT and a CP flag.
I am not really sure what you are getting at?
If you are asking after the IWW, they weren't there (as far as i know). But, i did hand out some IWW literature (manual for occupying hospitals got a few weird looks ... hehe!)
Germinale wrote:
Um ... AMICUS flags (the majority of red ones), SWP flags, RESPECT and a CP flag.
I am not really sure what you are getting at?If you are asking after the IWW, they weren't there (as far as i know). But, i did hand out some IWW literature (manual for occupying hospitals got a few weird looks ... hehe!)
I was wondering about the political make up of the march.
Why hand out occupation manuals? Why not sell IW's, have your branch tabling committee sell things at both ends of the march, hand out fliers advertising the union and how it can help people organize, hand out other ones about becoming a salt for the IWW, pass out flyers for the next starbucks picket, next branch meeting etc.???
Well that is all well and good and I am all up for that.
BUT, we are a tiny, tiny group of anarchists and in Sheffield the Socialist Workers Party (hence the red flags) pretty much dominates everything (and aren't too friendly to newcomers). So I do try my best but unfortunately have very limited resources and at the moment my energies are devoted mostly to building up membership and support for AF. I do appreciate your enthusiasm though.
I did hand out other flyers, just the occupation manuals got the strangest looks.
National Day to Defend the NHS
Stop the cuts
No to privatisation
Saturday
March 3rd
South Yorkshire Demonstration
Sheffield
Assemble 11am Weston Park. March to City Hall for Rally with speakers.
Tony Blair has promised that 40% of NHS work will be carried out by the private sector by 2008.
What does this mean for our health service?
GPs are forced to buy operations from Independent sector treatment centres and have to pay even when they don’t do the operations. Last year Nottingham paid £3. 97m for procedures in 2005 - but more than £2. 5m worth of operations were never performed.
Health Visitors in Sheffield have been threatened with one third of their jobs to be cut
Sheffield Children’s hospital is due to cut £9 million from this years’ budget
Blood Transfusion centres are to be slashed resulting in job losses and leaving Manchester to cover the whole of the North of England.
These are just a few examples, the speed of the take over by the private sector is about to increase dramatically in the NHS and profit will come before patient care.
Make your voice heard and join us in Sheffield to defend our health service
Taken from: www.keepournhspublic.com/
I will be there, plz msg if anybody else might be interested or if they are even in the area (otherwise will have to tag along with Student Respect again - they look at me strangely)
Cheers