Update #58

Hello everyone,
Welcome to this week's update on the political happenings in Derby from the Socialist Workers Party!

Branch Meetings

The SWP is a party of activists who know that we need to understand the world to be effective in our actions. Our meetings have a discussion about key issues: economic, political, historical and cultural; as well as planning for events and activities.

We have now uploaded the text of our recent meeting on socialists and elections - link to the post.

We've had some great meetings over the last few weeks, and this Thursday's should be another good one: Marxist theory of crisis - the nature of the current long depression - what caused the crash, why can't capitalism recover and what can we expect in the near future? 23rd April, 7 pm, West End Community Centre.

The following week we look back at one of the most famous strikes in the working class movement - the matchwomen's strike of 1888. Thursday 30th April, 7 pm, West End Community Centre.

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Derby Stand Up To UKIP activities

The Derby Against UKIP campaign's fortnightly stalls have been very successful in getting out literature to get out the truth about the populist, right-wing UKIPpers and their divisive homophobic, sexist, racist and anti-working class members and policies. Recent polls suggest that anti-UKIP campaigning is having a significant effect.


The election is not over yet, and if we want people to make the decision not to vote for this collection of malicious, pro-rich white men, anti-everyone else bunch we should continue to support the Derby Against UKIP campaign.

There will be leafleting of Alvaston on the 2nd May - please come and help out if you can!

If you're interested in finding out more, email sutuderby@gmail.com

Silk Mill Rally

The annual Silk Mill march and rally, which commemorates the struggles of Derby's workers in one of the first industrial strikes the world has ever seen, is approaching. This will be on Saturday April 25th. It is a great opportunity to celebrate working class resistance and organisation, so join the march, organised by the Derby Trades Union Council and with the support of all the trades unions in the city!

Can't make our meetings?

Saturday's campaign stall was very lively, as it coincided with the Anti-TTIP day of action. Comrades from the SWP joined in with the anti-TTIP campaigners as well as holding our regular stall.

If you want to find out more about us, meet some of our comrades, sign up to any of our petitions, find out about campaigns we are involved in, buy our paper or get hold of some of our other literature, why not come along to the campaign stall on Saturdays?

Find us on St Peter's St from 12 pm!