Welcome to this week's update from Derby Socialist Workers Party. What's going on? Find out below!
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.
Last week, following the enormous demonstration in Manchester against the Tories, we had a lively and wide-ranging discussion about how to defeat the anti-trades union laws that the Tories are proposing. Although there are serious threats to our ability to organise the Tories are seriously weak in some areas, and the Labour Party is, under Corbyn, opposed to the laws and will overturn them if elected. Passage of the bill is by no means assured, if trades unionists fight hard to oppose it. Even if we can't stop the passage of the bill, enforcing it is another matter: given the hardship which working people are to face over the next 5 years if the Tories are not thrown out of office, we can realistically say that a serious fightback by workers in the country is a genuine possibilty - and as revolutionaries, despite the grave threat that the proposed laws pose to our class, we still have reasons to be cheerful!
We have no branch meeting this week as there is an important meeting on the anti-trades union laws in Nottingham. (See below.
The following week we will look at the way that the capitalist system works. Why do most of us have to work for bosses? Why is profit so important? Why, in a world which produces more than enough to feed us all, do millions starve? Come along for our topic: How does capitalism work? An introduction to Marxist economics. Thursday 22nd October, 7 pm.
Protect the Right to Strike - 15th October
Join us in Nottingham on the 15th October if you can - the anti union laws are the most serious attack on the working class yet posed by the Tories, as they try to take on the best institutions which we have for fighting back against their onslaught. We must defeat the bill if we can!
Britain First - Not Welcome in Burton
Over the summer, members of Nazi organisation Britain First turned up on the streets of Derby. 40 people turned out the following week to join a vigil against them, sending a clear message that Nazis aren't welcome on our streets. |
| The anti-Britain First vigil this summer |
Although they haven't been back to Derby, they have announced their intention to march in Burton on October 17th. The RMT, UAF and NORCARF have called for a joint mobilisation to stop them. This is a call for all anti-racists and anti-fascists. At a recent Britain First demonstration in Rotherham the Nazis were hugely outnumbered by the counter-demonstration. Wherever opposition to the fascists is organised, our side shows that we are many and they are few - but that won't stop them trying to intimidate local people and demonise minorities. They claim to be anti-'extremist', but their march gives the lie to that - they want to demonstrate against the building of a mosque!
Join us on the counter-demonstration on October 17th - tell the fascists that they aren't welcome anywhere.
Demo Round Up
The last couple of weeks have seen some massive demonstrations: in Manchester against the Tories, and a big, lively, angry demonstration in Derby against pay cuts to teaching support staff across the city. Here are some pictures from comrades who were part of the demonstrations!Demonstrate Against the Tories - Manchester, last Sunday
Demonstration by School Support Staff, Council House this Wednesday
Support staff in schools are facing swingeing pay cuts at the moment, but they aren't taking it lying down - SWP comrades were there to show solidarity with them!
Can't make our meetings?
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!
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