May Day UK

[Forward Union]

http://www.londonsocialcentre.org.uk/public_images/mayday3.gif

Other groups are planning various things so if you can't make it here, organise and co-ordinate with them. Or as I've seen being discussed, plan your own thing. Being involved in the movement in England, I only have information on the stuff here, so, sorry comrade abroad.

More info at

http://www.londonsocialcentre.org.uk/

or

http://www.ourmayday.org.uk

[Global_Justice]

i won't be there as my mates aren't political and i'm not gonna go on my own. :P

but next year i'll be there because i'll be at uni in london :D

give 'em hell whoever is going! i'm thinking this year could have a slight anti-bnp bit too it aswell, with the elections only 3 days later.

[RebelOutcast]

Hopefully some facists/racists turn up so people get to hone their kerb stomping ability.
Not that I'd do that sort of thing... :lol:

[Keyser]

Thanks a lot Additives Free for the information.

I'll be attending and of course I'll be going with the Autonomous Bloc as I have no desire to really spend my time with the reformist sell out TUC barons.

Until the major trade unions are taken over by the workers themselves and boot out those cronies at the top of the union movement who pray for Gordon Brown as the "left-progressive" alternative to Tony Blair, then and only then should workers get involved and not waste time now giving the kiss of life to the rotting corpse of 'social democracy' and reactionary reformism.

[Janus]

I think that we should create a thread devoted to all May Day activities, so that members can find info. much easier. What are your thoughts?

[Global_Justice]

i'm working on may day :o

and to make it worse, i&#39;m being forced to. monday isn&#39;t my normal shift, there making me do overtime when i don&#39;t want to. they said something about it&#39;s in my contract and i can&#39;t do anything about it <_<

[Guest]

Until the major trade unions are taken over by the workers themselves and boot out those cronies at the top of the union movement who pray for Gordon Brown as the "left-progressive" alternative to Tony Blair, then and only then should workers get involved and not waste time now giving the kiss of life to the rotting corpse of &#39;social democracy&#39; and reactionary reformism.

The TUC is hardly going to change if workers refuse to involve themselves in their unions as you seem to suggest they should <_<

There&#39;s no way im gonna be going all the way to london, i cant afford to, do any comrades know about any other events in other parts of the country, as presumably there will be minor events in all major cities.

[Janus]

and to make it worse, i&#39;m being forced to. monday isn&#39;t my normal shift, there making me do overtime when i don&#39;t want to. they said something about it&#39;s in my contract and i can&#39;t do anything about it
All day? If I were you, I would just skip it and march in defiance of the employers, that&#39;s what the day is all about.

[Forward Union]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2006, 07:59 PM
i&#39;m working on may day :o

and to make it worse, i&#39;m being forced to. monday isn&#39;t my normal shift, there making me do overtime when i don&#39;t want to. they said something about it&#39;s in my contract and i can&#39;t do anything about it <_<
Dude, you don&#39;t look so good. Is that the flu? ;)

[Alexknucklehead]

Originally posted by Anarchism [email protected] 21 2006, 11:37 AM
I&#39;ll be attending and of course I&#39;ll be going with the Autonomous Bloc as I have no desire to really spend my time with the reformist sell out TUC barons.



I honestly don&#39;t see the point in these, &#39;Autonomous Blocs&#39;, and I don&#39;t see what the organisers of them hope to achieve other than further alienation from normal working people. All its going to do is give a chance for the usual muppets to prance around in their bandanas and bask in their own self importance. As revolutionaries we need to be interacting with, and be talking to members of the mainstream unions, not alienating them from our self-enforced &#39;activist&#39; ghetto politics.

And I&#39;ll be working on Mayday :angry: :rolleyes:

[TC]

I&#39;ll be there :-D...


on a side note...i&#39;m disapointed that the occupied SEESE social centre&#39;s website is all anarchist looking...most of the people who set it up were marxist-leninists.

[Alexknucklehead]

Originally posted by [email protected] 30 2006, 02:36 AM
most of the people who set it up were marxist-leninists.
Hahaha, you&#39;re joking right?

[Forward Union]

Originally posted by [email protected] 30 2006, 02:36 AM
I&#39;ll be there :-D...


on a side note...i&#39;m disapointed that the occupied SEESE social centre&#39;s website is all anarchist looking...most of the people who set it up were marxist-leninists.
Don&#39;t you support Saddam Hussien?

Maybe rethink whether or not you&#39;ll be welcome on the march.

[bolshevik butcher]

I was at the march ine dinburgh yesterday. And radicalised workers should work in trade unions, its the only way to win them over.

[TC]

Originally posted by Alexknucklehead+Apr 30 2006, 10:55 AM--> (Alexknucklehead @ Apr 30 2006, 10:55 AM)
[email protected] 30 2006, 02:36 AM
most of the people who set it up were marxist-leninists.
Hahaha, you&#39;re joking right? [/b]
No,

The School of Slavonic and East European Studies whose building is being occupied for the social centre is part of UCL, where both I and most of the people in the resident collective (who opened the place up and live there on the second floor) go to university. A number of them run the UCL Union Stop the War Coalition, so i met them through that before they decided to occupy the SSEES building; a couple of them are anarchists but most of them are Marxist-Leninists, many are either SWP members or supporters.

The social centre is indepedent of the resident group though and i stoped going to their meetings shortly after it was established because they&#39;re really, really, painfully boring.



Don&#39;t you support Saddam Hussien?

Maybe rethink whether or not you&#39;ll be welcome on the march.

I hate to break it to you but the autonomous bloc is only a small section of the much larger pro-union organized May Day march. I am sure you&#39;ll see a lot more marxist-leninists than anarchists. Maybe the real question is whether the trade unionists and socialists welcome disruptive anarchist students.

[TrotskysRevenge]

Hi, I&#39;m new here and will be attending the rally. I&#39;m not sure who to go with though. I could go with UNISON but I&#39;d rather go with a more socialist-orientated group. Will you lot just be assembling at Clerkenwell Green?